1. #21
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    No!

    Look again at that picture.
    Widest FOV is red line (4:3) and when you use Widest FOV on a widescreen you see what's inside that yellow box.

    WHen you use normal view you see the green box with your 4:3 monitor and you see the blue box with a widescreen resolution monitor.



    Anyway's this isn't how widescreen is supported on other games when it is at least not on the correct way. It should work as it does vertical now and without graphical glitches.

    And the part where you are getting fooled is I think is that you see the speed and hdg info
    and after that you see 'extra space' with this grapical bug but there is not extra space the HUD/speed info/HDG just moved to the right.

    Just watch this picture this is exactly what you are getting with a widescreen monitor now. Cropped above and below and the width is just as width as a 4:3 monitor though it seems wider since your monitor is wider but it isn't.


    And if you mean the same deal then hey it's all ok and for some maybe not a real issue but for me it is. I only have LESS view with my extra wide monitor right now and with graphical bugs!

    I can live with it though but I really hope BoB really supports widescreen and extra monitors.
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    Operation FLashpoint has the (imho) best Solution: user adjustable FOVs for vertikal and horizontal.

    So you can adjust the view exactly like you want..
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    I settled with playing it vertical now since this monitor supports tilting this is more fun to play!

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    Originally posted by InsaneDruid:
    We "non 4:3 users" need he reflection and fog/mist/cloud leyer fixed, thats it. (wider maximum fov would allow us widescreeners to better look behind, so I can live with the foc, if Oleg says "no" to wider fov as some sort of "cheat protection")
    The best thing is that the original il2 have NO PROBLEM with the fog layers or the map , even the speedbar and the infobar(with power xx% etc) is nit in the middle of the picture but neatly on left/right side !
    All those problems arised since FB (maybe it was the parhelia support that killed it) , also I heard there was 1 patch where a FOV of 120â? was possible (still cant confirm that).
    So whatever they did , they mad it worse and all that above was posted/mailed from me to oleg 2 or more years back ! , no response , it simply doesnt matter to him it seems

    P.S. tilting is not an option for me as my 24" screen has no support for that and weights 45 kilos

    PP.S. Also I think we have no real lobby yet , and developers all have 5:4 displays
    but what nags me most is that some games from 1999 support proper widescreen ?!?
    With the HDTV TVs around with DVI/VGA connectors
    il2 could only benefit from proper wideview
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    hi sletchvalk!

    how did you get the rotated tft to work?
    i tried it, when i got my tft, but it didn't work. i also tried a change in the options file from 1280x1024 to 1024x1280, but no picture either.

    so what's the trick?? :-)

    i have a ati X800XL card btw

    cheers

    RIO
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    Hi. I'm the lone Matrox Parhelia user. Ever since 4.01, the FOV is absolutely porked. It won't let me zoom out to the point single-screen users have. Makes this sim useless to me, which bites because I don't know if it'll be addressed in the next patch (due Sept 2008?)...

    Widescreens should work better, triplehead should too, especially considering it did before 4.01.

    If the dev team looks into and resolves this I'd appreciate it.
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    Originally posted by RIO_66:
    hi sletchvalk!

    how did you get the rotated tft to work?
    i tried it, when i got my tft, but it didn't work. i also tried a change in the options file from 1280x1024 to 1024x1280, but no picture either.

    so what's the trick?? :-)

    i have a ati X800XL card btw

    cheers

    RIO
    Hi, I set resolution in il-2 config file at
    1050x1680 insteed of 1680x1050 and i rotate my monitor in properties from Nvidia control panel. I am sure you can do that with your ati card aswell.
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    well, that was the way i tried it - long ago.
    maybe i give it a shot with my newer drivers now - thanx

    RIO
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    Here a picture how i do it maybe helps?





    and config:

    [window]
    width=1050
    height=1680
    ColourBits=32
    DepthBits=24
    StencilBits=8
    ChangeScreenRes=0
    FullScreen=1
    DrawIfNotFocused=0
    EnableResize=0
    EnableClose=1
    SaveAspect=0
    Use3Renders=0
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    thanx :-)

    RIO
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