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Title: FreeSpace 2 and widescreen
Post by: Dishwasher on August 26, 2006, 11:25:14 am

HI all I was just about to install Freespace 2 again when I realized I have a widescreen LCD monitor these days... any possibility of enabeling widescreen resolutions for FS2?

Title: Re: FreeSpace 2 and widescreen
Post by: gevatter Lars on August 26, 2006, 11:50:20 am

When you are using a scp build you can select different solutions in the launcher checking "allow non standart modes" under video. I think their where some widescreen resolutions under opengl.

Title: Re: FreeSpace 2 and widescreen
Post by: Tolwyn on August 26, 2006, 12:01:14 pm

they won't work properly

Title: Re: FreeSpace 2 and widescreen
Post by: Backslash on August 26, 2006, 01:59:15 pm

Yeah... they'll 'work', but they'll look weird.  There's some issue with the FOV where, among other things, as they get farther from the center of the screen, targeting brackets get shown at a different place than where the models are rendered.  And the sun likes to 'wander'.

I think the code involved is eldritch and horrible, so it's on the known issue list, but afaik it's not on anyone's want-to-do list :P

Title: Re: FreeSpace 2 and widescreen
Post by: gevatter Lars on August 26, 2006, 02:43:48 pm

Most likely because widescreen isn't that common..at least not now.

Title: Re: FreeSpace 2 and widescreen
Post by: Tolwyn on August 27, 2006, 11:31:33 am

well, disable stretching in your gpu drivers. That is what I do on my laptop.

Title: Re: FreeSpace 2 and widescreen
Post by: Dishwasher on September 04, 2006, 03:26:19 am

good idea

Title: Re: FreeSpace 2 and widescreen
Post by: bizzybody on October 18, 2006, 10:01:00 pm

FS2 retail works perfectly on my 19" widescreen LCD. Heh.