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    Can you play games on widescreen laptop (16:10) w/out stretching?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by wobble987, Jun 14, 2006.

  1. wobble987

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    hi, do anyone here know if u could play games like bf2 on widescreen laptop (16:10) w/out stretching?

    and will future games (next year) support 1920x1200 resolution? (i'm planning to play bf2142)

    thanks
     
    wobble987, Jun 14, 2006
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    Some recent games already support widescreen resolutions. For the others, I believe that recent drivers for both ATI and nVidia allow you to preserve the aspect ratio while scaling, which will give you a pillar box image with black bars on the sides.

    Hope you've got a good GPU if you're planning on running BF1942 at 1920x1200... ;)
     
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    oh thanks!!! that is really comforting, thank you again for the really helpful info.
     
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    A number of older games like Far Cry and Rome Total War support 1920x1200, so I'm pretty sure newer games do too. That widescreengamingforum website will have a list of all the games that already support WS gaming--focus on those if you don't want the "stretch".
     
    chrisyano, Jun 14, 2006
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