Are Wide Screen Resolutions Hard to Program For?

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Ackmed
So? It shows its not a "fad". Walk into any Best Buy, Circuit City, even Wal Mart.. and you will find more WS TV's, than not.

Denying WS is the way future displays are going is pretty silly. In the years to come, more and more WS PC monitors will be out. Even in the last year, there are many more.

I agree. With all the people buying widescreen LCD monitors for the PC (like the 2005FPW and 2405FPW), and given that they've fallen so much in price in recent months, I think it's safe to say that widescreen aspect ratios are here to stay. I don't think anyone's suggesting that everyone with a 4:3 (or 5:4) monitor go out and replace it with a 16:9/16:10 one immediately; just that it doesn't make sense for new games not to support it right out of the box. Sure, widescreen monitors are still a minority overall, but so are things like 6800/7800 series video cards, and game developers sure do take advantage of those...

Completely agree.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
So? It shows its not a "fad". Walk into any Best Buy, Circuit City, even Wal Mart.. and you will find more WS TV's, than not.

Denying WS is the way future displays are going is pretty silly. In the years to come, more and more WS PC monitors will be out. Even in the last year, there are many more.

Have to agree with Ackmed... He paid me too.

Anyway, WS is the future... It it easier on the eyes IMO... Our human vision is widescreen, if you want to call it that. We have a much wider range horizontially that we do vertically... Honestly, Widescreen should have been used from the start... But I am guess there might have been some technical limitation at the time.

 

[zephyrprime]

It's not just a programming issue. It's also a game design issue. Some games have precisely scripted camera angles and having a different FOV would require adding an additional cinematic script.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777
Have to agree with Ackmed... He paid me too.

Anyway, WS is the future... It it easier on the eyes IMO... Our human vision is widescreen, if you want to call it that. We have a much wider range horizontially that we do vertically... Honestly, Widescreen should have been used from the start... But I am guess there might have been some technical limitation at the time.

Yeah...damn Farnsworth...he should have made it 16:9 to start with.

Hey-I never said it wasn't the future, I just said there are an extremely few amount of people that have it nowadays, and those people probably know already where to get the widescreen configs. Then it goes to a "egg or chicken first?" kind of thing.