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Suicidal Sledder
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hey everyone i just bought a new computer (which runs AMAZINGLY) but it came with a widescreen monitor and its my first experience with them. It all seemed ok until I was playing CS:S and noticed the sniper scope was elliptical instead of circular. I got looking closer and when i make a window full screen it trims off a bit around all of the edges.

I looked on my monitors menus to see if there was a way to resize the display or something but there isnt anything.


Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks all in advance!

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Osiris
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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 08:14
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Change the aspect ratio to 16:9 Wide screen and it should fix it.

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Suicidal Sledder
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where do I do that? i checked in my display settings in windows and in my gpu properties and cant seem to find it.

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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 08:33
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its in the settings in counterstrike, should be right there under video.

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Suicidal Sledder
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yeah but its like trimming the edges of my windows windows too. my computer came with vista and im still like totally new to it.

sry im such a nub

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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 09:13
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I find widescreen monitors to be one of the stupidest things you can buy for computers.

The only thing that they're good for is watching movies on. And unless you always use your PC to watch movies, you've got massive wasted space, you're going against the 10-words-per-line rule of easy-to-read text (That goes for larger resolutions, though, not just the monitor), and as you point out, when you're playing games, or trying to do something 'full-screen', it's either distorted, or part of your screen isn't being used.

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Osiris
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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 09:20
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My laptop comes with a wide screen, and i'm not getting any of that stuff.

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Benjamin
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Quote: "I find widescreen monitors to be one of the stupidest things you can buy for computers."

I agree.

Buy a real monitor.

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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 15:21
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I have a widescreen monitor, i find it much better then my previous "normal" one, but hey, each for their own.

Oh, i never watch movies on the computer. That's what i have my TV for.

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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 16:09 Edited at: 1st Oct 2007 16:11
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You need to select a wide screen resolution in your game.

Or set windows to a widscreen resolution, and if you game doesn't support wide screen, play it in a window.

Download the Quake 4 demo that's realy 2 whole levels of niceness to show off you screen

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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 17:36
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well considering I got a computer with 19 inch flat screen, 3.8 AMD CPU, 128 nVidia (upgraded to 400), 2 GB of RAM, windows vista, speakers, keyboard and mouse for under 800 bucks, im not going to complain to much about missing an eight inch around the edges... Although it would be nice to fix sometime

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If it's happening in windows too not just the game have a look at the advanced montior/graphics card options. Sounds like the monitor driver is wrong and offering your graphics card a higher screen resolution/refresh rate than it actualy supports.

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Mr Tank
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I would have thought the monitor would automatically play a 4:3 game with black bars on the left and right, kind of like how a TV automatically does this, as a signal is sent with the TV broadcast saying what aspect ratio to display.
I saw my mate playing a game on a widescreen monitor, and it was all horribly stretched out. I'd imagine the monitor probably has a manual option to switch to 4:3 - maybe try the buttons on the front of the monitor. Otherwise who in their right mind would ever buy one? Older games probably weren't designed with wide monitors in mind.
As far as i can gather from the forums, there's no sure way to "automatically" detect what aspect ratio the monitor is running through the computer- if you code a game, you should stick in an option for the user to manually specify whether they're using a 4:3, 16:10 or 16:9 monitor. I am choosing to use a 3:2 aspect ratio, and there are black bars on all monitors.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 19:40
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While it's true that widescreen matches the shape of a human's view more than a 4:3 display, how often do you place your head that close to the screen?


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Set the resolution to one with a widescreen aspect ratio. 1280x720 for example. See if that will fix it.

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Nothing is distorted or has wasted space if you use the correct resolution. My 24" widescreen lets change the actual aspect of the monitor to a 4:3 fullscreen mode, just puts black bars on either side. (but there's never any reason for me to use that mode)


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I love my widescreen. It gives me some very useful extra horizontal space. It's really nice in Photoshop because all those toolbars and pallettes can clip so much off the screen on a normal monitor. In games there is no difference. Just use proper resolutions and set the aspect ratio of the game has the option. It's great!

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