[karajorma]

Last time I used -fov I had a problem with the fact that the cockpit scaled as well in a way that made it completely out of sync with the model.

What happens if you use it when you have a cockpit for the ship?

[chief1983]

If your eyepoint is in the right spot, and your cockpit is the right scale, it should just be like focusing on only what's right in front of you.  It may eliminate some of the cockpit from view that you had intended to be seen unfortunately.

[Forboding Angel]

Aside from a degree of weirdness with slightly noticeable accented underscores appearing next to or beneath each character in the various text boxes in the game (which I was able to start ignoring pretty quickly), widescreen in the game is indeed perfectly playable. I've had no real issues playing at 1920x1200.

Lol, I'm at that same res on a 24 inch monitor and I didn't even know that it was stretched lol

[MP-Ryan]

Here's a related question:  Why does the -res flag in non-standard resolutions position the game in the upper-left corner of my screen instead of invoking the centering and black bands that my display uses for standard but non-native resolutions?  E.g the monitor is 1680x1050, and set to 1024x768 the game will run centered with the black bands that my display uses... but at 1365x1024 or 1400x1050, it defaults to upper-left corner with no black banding.

It's annoying.  I've tried both the nVidia scaling with locked aspect ratio and my monitor's built-in, which is the normal one I use.  Both generate this behaviour, and it seems confined to FSO.

[chief1983]

If you don't want to run it in native resolution, why don't you just run it in windowed mode?  Or try enabling the fullscreen-window option, that might help.

[Kolgena]

Are the resolutions that put the image in the top left corner supported by your GPU? (ie, are they available as working desktop resolutions on Windows?)

If not, you'll need registry hacks to enable them proper, or avoid them altogether.