Widescreen games?

Yea, quite a few of the new and some of the old games support widescreen resolutions. We're getting a 17" iMac too, for X-mas, so I was a bit worried about this as well. From what I read (and don't quote me), UT2k4 is based on the quake engine, which is very versatile when it comes to different resolutions. Search around on the forums here and you'll find the console commands to change the resolution and make the evil little black bars go away.

I've also been told that Medal of Honor and Call of Duty support widescreen displays, as does Warcraft 3.

Good luck, and happy gaming!

 

As far as I know not to many games will run in widescreen; personaly ive never had one run on my ibm system (ibm has the hd display at 1920x1080)... there may be 3rd party patches, but that would just stretch the screen. To get true widescreen the game would have to actualy have the graphical information to fill the black bars; or the game could potentialy cut the top and bottom and then enlarge a bit; but that wouldn't look to great.... It's like having video shot in 4:3; its not that likely to go to 16:9 and look good, but you can easily take 16:9 to 4:3 as youd just cut some information off; you dont have to add or modify it. (other than cutting information out)

I would think that future games will do it though, as many people are starting to use widescreen computer displays. Once they make it for 16:9 then you'll be able to do it, and if the makers are bright they would make it scale to 4:3.. as if not then the old users get bars on the top and bottom, lol.

 

Just about every Mac game I play has Widescreen resolutions. WoW, UT 2004, Warcraft 3.

 

Ah ha... I think I found out how to do it. You have to find the .ini file in your UT2k4 folder, and search for the term SDLDrv. It should show you all the resolutions that you're currently able to run the game at. Just alter them to 1440x900, save the file, and game on.

 

Ahhh nice tip!! Didn't know that

 

COD and COD:UO are fantastic in widescreen, you simply alter them in the in game console. Aspyr even provide instructions in a read me file on the disk.

 

I play COD (do not have UO yet)

I have a dual 2Ghz G5 with the ATI 9600 card and the (non-al) 20" ACD. I've tried the "seta r_..." settings in the console to change the screen size to the the appropriate wide screen pixel dimensions and it works, but only to an extent. There is then this highly annoying yellow bar across the top of the screen that FLASHES.

It's almost like texture corruption.

Anyone else with a similar setup notices this bug?

/dale