Newbie widescreen gaming question

Craig234

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Aren't games (e.g., WoW) generally 4:3 - how do they play on widescreens? The usual choices of blacked out sidebars or a distorted wide picture?
 

Hadsus

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If you have a widescreen monitor and the game supports 16:9 I can't imagine why 4:3 would be preferable. WoW has widescreen support, BTW.
 

LittleNemoNES

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only older games and BF2, FEAR dont have widescreen support -- but they can be forced to work. FEAR is perfect widescreen but BF2 uses a sort of zoom -- albeit it is 1:1
 

OBCT

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Older games (such as Diablo 2, one of my favs) only support 4:3 resolutions. The picture looks slightly distorted, but it isn't anything to cry over.
 

Craig234

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Gotcha, older games have the black bars or distortion, newer ones work ok.

Do you actually see more in WoW? Seems like an edge in PvP etc.