Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hi all, I'm coming to you with a pretty bizarre request. I want to play a game on my workstation monitor - just for the lulz, but I also think it might be a good experience.

The monitor's resolution is 1920*1920 - a 1:1 aspect ratio.
The games I have are Dirt 3 Complete Edition and Hitman Absolution.

Dirt 3 detects the resolution fine (1920x1920) but will still give a weird auto aspect ratio (16:9 I think) that clips the edges of the game as well as letterboxing. I can choose between 4:3 and 5:4, but no 1:1.

So I'd basically like to know how to force a weird aspect ratio, and I'm sure this is place to ask that question! I look forward to sharing my experience with you.

Thanks for your help

EDIT: Hitman actually works fine. I was having trouble with it before, but when the aspect ratio is set to auto, it is perfect

Nevermind! Is just the menus that are broken. Gameplay works fine!

That's the first I hear of a 1:1 Monitor in actual use. I've heard that they exist before but never encountered one.
What kind of Work do you do on a 1:1 aspect ratio?

You don't usually find them outside of very specific medical and scientific uses.

This is an EIZO EV2730Q, which is a "consumer" and productivity targeted monitor. I bought it for programming - to save me the hassle of constantly rotating my 16:9's from landscape to portrait, but it's blown me away by just how much it has enhanced my productivity in even the most menial tasks. Web browsing is a delight - most pages work well with the 1920px across, so you don't get any of the whitespace you usually get on an ultrawide, plus a stack more vertical space.

Writing, spreadsheets, databases all speed up quickly. It's also likely to replace my 21:9 as a video editing monitor - since it can display a full 1920*1080 video and can comfortably fit all of the tools I need to edit underneath. This has freed up a 16:9 monitor I usually use as a fullscreen preview. Being able to contain the editor to one monitor is a HUGE timesave, since I don't have to constantly be minimizing Premiere to make the 16:9 monitor usable.

It's been a long time since I've had a piece of equipment that has so drastically changed the way I work, so quickly (only had it 3 days now). I'll film and post a review of it in a week or two. Just unfortunate it costs $2k.




Sh!t for gaming though.