[Dishwasher]

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?

[gevatter Lars]

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.

[Tolwyn]

they won't work properly

[Backslash]

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

[gevatter Lars]

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

[Tolwyn]

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

[Dishwasher]

good idea

[bizzybody]

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