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Old Games on Widescreen.

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I am looking into a laptop and am trying to decide between models with normal screens vs wide screens. My concern is that I still play older games such as Diablo and Starcraft that I seriously doubt support the resolutions I would need to use on these screens. Does anyone have experience with this, and could you tell me how it works? I would probably stay away from the whole wide screen thing if I can't play my old stuff. Thanks
 
It'll work on the widescreens, but it will likely stretch the screen.
 
Is it built into the drivers to put black bars on the sides to hold the correct aspect ratio or is that on a game per game basis?
 
never heard of the black bars thing...my friend has a 6810 and when playing games in non widescreen resoltuions, it just stretches the screen...though it really doesn't look all that bad...he didn't even notices that unreal 2 was stretched until I asked him if he was using a wide resolution and he checked...
 
Not entirely sure if it's the same case, but I've been using an SGI 1600SW lcd panel for 4 years now, and I really haven't run into any problems with games. Most of the older games will not support the 16:10 format, but the monitor just stretches it out...

As to them looking a bit weird -- yes, they do look slightly stretched, but not nearly as obtrusive as you might think -- I used to play games like serious sam at 1024x768 on my panel (native: 1600x1024), and it didn't bother me one bit. I played doom3 on it at 1280x1024, still looked ok to me. Maybe I just have gotten used to it... heh

cheers,

yass
 
they will stretch on a laptop yes. There are some fixes for games over at widescreengamingforum.com that can be performed to make them widescreen. If you find a widescreen laptop you like I wouldnt hold back because of the screen. It may look a little weird at first but its not bad in my opinion. Check out those forums for more details and info.
 
I came across a copy of Unreal and installed it on my laptop and the game supports widescreen resolutions natively. So I'd imagine other games based on the Unreal engine would also.
 
Personal experience here: On my Tosh P25-S509 widescreen, I play Total Anniahiation, Diablo I and II... All play great and all three just stretch the game resolution to fit the screen. So no black bars.

Also check out this site for info on widescreen gaming:

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/

They also talk about the occasional widescreen resolution game mod when they exist, what games natively support WS gaming, and what games just get stretched...
 
Most of the laptop's I've owned (Gateway, Acer, Toshiba) gave you options in the advanced tab of the drivers to compensate for this. Something like a stretch to screen or an option along those lines. Anything with a remotely decent screen should scale up nicely however.

 
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