Need For Speed: Carbon

[Oyeve]

I played the demo of NFS:Carbon last night and I noticed that in the video settings there is no widescreen resolution or letterbox. I have a 2007FPW and it looks like crap all scrunched up. Does anybody know if the full version supports WS resolutions?

 

[duragezic]

Nope, EA pretty much refuses to put WS resolutions in their games. You know, they really should at least have it in their sports games, because the extra horizontal viewing area gained from proper 16:10 resolutions would be very helpful for games like Madden or NBA. Of course, I guess that'd be cheating according to them.

There is usually workarounds or hacks from WidescreenGamingForum.com. They even have a working one for BF2 but PunkBuster detects it as a cheat, but for a NFS game you can probably use a workaround without any problems. Then again, if it is done like the +szx +szy is for BF2, then you actually lose overall viewing area, because it crops a large resolution image, rather than dynamically adjusting the FOV to the resolution's aspect ratio.

I usually just use a 4:3 resolution and don't scale it on my 2005FPW, because a stretched image kinda sucks.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: duragezic
Nope, EA pretty much refuses to put WS resolutions in their games. You know, they really should at least have it in their sports games, because the extra horizontal viewing area gained from proper 16:10 resolutions would be very helpful for games like Madden or NBA. Of course, I guess that'd be cheating according to them.

There is usually workarounds or hacks from WidescreenGamingForum.com. They even have a working one for BF2 but PunkBuster detects it as a cheat, but for a NFS game you can probably use a workaround without any problems. Then again, if it is done like the +szx +szy is for BF2, then you actually lose overall viewing area, because it crops a large resolution image, rather than dynamically adjusting the FOV to the resolution's aspect ratio.

I usually just use a 4:3 resolution and don't scale it on my 2005FPW, because a stretched image kinda sucks.

That blows. I bet the console versions support WS. Thanks for the info.

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: duragezic
Nope, EA pretty much refuses to put WS resolutions in their games. You know, they really should at least have it in their sports games, because the extra horizontal viewing area gained from proper 16:10 resolutions would be very helpful for games like Madden or NBA. Of course, I guess that'd be cheating according to them.

There is usually workarounds or hacks from WidescreenGamingForum.com. They even have a working one for BF2 but PunkBuster detects it as a cheat, but for a NFS game you can probably use a workaround without any problems. Then again, if it is done like the +szx +szy is for BF2, then you actually lose overall viewing area, because it crops a large resolution image, rather than dynamically adjusting the FOV to the resolution's aspect ratio.

I usually just use a 4:3 resolution and don't scale it on my 2005FPW, because a stretched image kinda sucks.

That blows. I bet the console versions support WS. Thanks for the info.

i think it has to, given the ability to select the ratio from the 360 dashboard.

 

[Oyeve]

Well, at least they added a little bit of realism. Now when you hit the guard rail on hilly highways you crash through. I thought that was pretty cool when I first went flying over the cliff.