Originally posted by: Cygnus X1
I say go with the 2005FPW. Note BF2 doesnt have true widescreen support but games that do are very impressive.
Well what would BF2 look/play like on a 2005FPW? Does BF2 even have the native Dell 2005FPW resolution setting in game? If not I might as well get the 1907. Is there gonna be a Dell 1907 screen? 19" Screen?[/quote]
Absolutely, and it looks great. BF2 doesn't actually have 1680x1050 in the resolution list, but with BF2 you can specify a resolution (any valid one?) with the command line with +szx 1680 +szy 1050. What I mean by true widescreen support is that to achieve 1680x1050, it takes a larger image, say 1600x1200 or whatever, and chops off the height so that its down to 1050. So you get the same horizontal viewing area as a 4:3 ratio yet lose vertical viewing area (not much though). So thats pretty weak, but I still play 1680x1050 and take the little bit of veritcal loss vs having to use a 4:3 resolution and stretch the image or have black bars.
Check out widescreengamingforum.com. Go to the Master List and it will show you all of the games that have some sort of hack or workaround to enable widescreen support.
Games like HL2 OTOH, have native widescreen and you gain a decent amount of horizontal viewing area without a single pixel loss in vertical. Thus HL2 and games like it (marked on the Master Game list with Hor+) are better played on a widescreen IMO since you have a larger field of view (HL2 adjusts your field of view according to your chosen aspect ratio). Back in the day I remember in Quake that the FOV wasn't locked, so you could increase it from the default 90 and get a larger field of view. Of course, doing this on a 4:3 screen made it wack and not really useful at anything over 95ish, but it was handy for making scripts to zoom in (fov 20 makes a sniper scope-like zoom, the Quake TF sniper zoom was annoying
🙂). But this was like the only game I remember doing that in since everything in the last 5 or more years has the FOV locked so people can't cheat with it in multiplayer.
Not sure about the 1907. If you really need HDCP forget the current models since most don't support it, but I could care less, and I'm very happy with my 2005.
Also, if you don't mind black bars on the side, any game with no widescreen fix whatsoever can still be played, but after using 16:10, 4:3 and even worse 5:4 just seems too square.
