hollywoody Posted February 17, 2010 Posted February 17, 2010 Hey guys, I'm ready to upgrade to a new monitor and I was wondering about how BS will look on a widescreen monitor like a LCD 24" 16.9 aspect ratio? I'm more concern if the game fills in the complete screen or if there are black bars or if some of graphics are cutoff a bit. the res is 1920 x 1080 / 60Hz If you can give any pros and cons would be greatly apriciated since I want to buy it NOW. :D Thanks! Hollywoody [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] http://WWW.VFA-113.COM ________________________ Win 8.1 i5-3570 3.4ghz-Trackir5-TM Warthog - Pro-Saitek Combat Rudders-Viso 43" 4k"
Waldo_II Posted February 17, 2010 Posted February 17, 2010 Question: how BS will look on a widescreen monitor? Answer: Glorious. Seriously though, DCS:BS, like (almost) every other game thesedays, has widescreen settings. It will increase the FOV horizontally so you see more than you normally would. No black bars. No cons when you go widescreen. You never go back.
hollywoody Posted February 17, 2010 Author Posted February 17, 2010 Oh, is an LED monitor better than LCD? thanks [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] http://WWW.VFA-113.COM ________________________ Win 8.1 i5-3570 3.4ghz-Trackir5-TM Warthog - Pro-Saitek Combat Rudders-Viso 43" 4k"
Lucid484 Posted February 17, 2010 Posted February 17, 2010 No such thing as an LED monitor...just an LED backlit LCD monitor..and there are 2 types of backlit LED's ...border lit and full screen backlit....the new samsungs use full screen LED backlit LCD's and they look sharp as hell!!!! Core i7-930 (2.8 OC to 3.85), ASUS Rampage II Extreme, XFX Radeon 5870, 6 Gigs MUSHKIN DDR3-1600 6-8-6-24, 128 GB Crucial C300 SSD, 500 GB Western 5400rpm Digital Green Drive,ASUS SATA 3 6gbps card.
ScEBlack1 Posted February 17, 2010 Posted February 17, 2010 I have a 34inch tv as my monitor set at 1920 x 1080p and it is sweet, no problems at all and fills entire screen. Just make sure you have a good rig with lots of memory and good graphics card. win 7 ultimate 64 bit Nvidia 9800gtx 8 gig gold ballistix 850 power watt amp.
Woots Posted February 17, 2010 Posted February 17, 2010 Just be sure to set the game to the native resolution of your LCD. For me, that was 1920x1080. http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=810624&postcount=1 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
sweinhart3 Posted February 18, 2010 Posted February 18, 2010 I have an issue with the old overscan bug with the last several tvs ive used including one of Samsungs newest plasmas. Even tho the connection is 1080p, I have to resize the desktop to a slightly lesser resolution or else the windows desktop is larger than the screen size. Intel i7 990X, 6GB DDR3, Nvidia GTX 470 x2 SLI, Win 7 x64 http://picasaweb.google.com/sweinhart
Wolf Rider Posted February 18, 2010 Posted February 18, 2010 The TV should have an overscan option in its own menu City Hall is easier to fight, than a boys' club - an observation :P "Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us." - Jefferson "Give a group of potheads a bunch of weed and nothing to smoke out of, and they'll quickly turn into engineers... its simply amazing." EVGA X99 FTW, EVGA GTX980Ti FTW, i7 5930K, 16Gb Corsair Dominator 2666Hz, Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit, Intel 520 SSD x 2, Samsung PX2370 monitor and all the other toys - "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar"
Boberro Posted February 18, 2010 Posted February 18, 2010 I use panorama and I am pleased, much much much much much better than grandpa 4:3 format :) Reminder: Fighter pilots make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY! :D | Also to be remembered: FRENCH TANKS HAVE ONE GEAR FORWARD AND FIVE BACKWARD :D ಠ_ಠ ツ
Woots Posted February 18, 2010 Posted February 18, 2010 Even tho the connection is 1080p, I have to resize the desktop to a slightly lesser resolution or else the windows desktop is larger than the screen size. Negative. Put the resolution back to the TV's native resolution. Right click on the desktop to access your video card control panel and stretch or shrink your desktop to fit your screen. This was the first thing I had to do myself. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
sweinhart3 Posted February 19, 2010 Posted February 19, 2010 Negative. Put the resolution back to the TV's native resolution. Right click on the desktop to access your video card control panel and stretch or shrink your desktop to fit your screen. This was the first thing I had to do myself. Thats what I meant. My tv has a PC mode on it which is what I have selected. The windows desktop has to be resized in the video card control panel which reduces the effective resolution or at least what is being reported by windows. Intel i7 990X, 6GB DDR3, Nvidia GTX 470 x2 SLI, Win 7 x64 http://picasaweb.google.com/sweinhart
Woots Posted February 19, 2010 Posted February 19, 2010 Thats what I meant. My tv has a PC mode on it which is what I have selected. The windows desktop has to be resized in the video card control panel which reduces the effective resolution or at least what is being reported by windows. Screen size and resolution are two different things. Changing one does not affect the other. You should probably state that "windows desktop has to be resized in the video card control panel which reduces the effective viewable area". The resolution hasn't changed. Anyway, looks like we mean the same thing:thumbup: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
DTWD Posted February 19, 2010 Posted February 19, 2010 I have an issue with the old overscan bug with the last several tvs ive used including one of Samsungs newest plasmas. Even tho the connection is 1080p, I have to resize the desktop to a slightly lesser resolution or else the windows desktop is larger than the screen size. I don't know about the plasmas but on the LCDs it's called JustScan. On mine it's the menu option where you set the ratio, however it will ONLY be available/work when it's recieving a 1080p signal. My TV is quite old and will only do it on HDMI, VGA is already 1:1. Regards [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Lucid484 Posted February 19, 2010 Posted February 19, 2010 I use a 56" Samsumg DLP myself and I run mostly at 1920x1080 for all my games but have my desktop 1360x768 which is the same aspect ratio so I can read text...BS looks the same at this reso too...but mine fill up the screen perfectly...I have the DVI from my GTX275 into the HDMI of my tv. no problems here! Core i7-930 (2.8 OC to 3.85), ASUS Rampage II Extreme, XFX Radeon 5870, 6 Gigs MUSHKIN DDR3-1600 6-8-6-24, 128 GB Crucial C300 SSD, 500 GB Western 5400rpm Digital Green Drive,ASUS SATA 3 6gbps card.
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