BioShock Widescreen Woes [Aug 21, 2007, 9:52 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
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messed up ... on the 2K Forums has hundreds of posts about problems with
widescreen monitor support in BioShock impacting both PC and Xbox 360 owners. At
issue is how images are expanded and cropped to accommodate widescreen modes,
meaning widescreen users actually get less image than fullscreen users, a
situation bordering on irony. There is no good news from 2K or the studio
formerly known as Irrational on the forum, and our attempt to contact 2K about
this directly has met with no response so far.
""You will see more in widescreen. We use a different projection matrix; there is no squashing or stretching of the image involved."
"The game will render in full 16:9 aspect ratio, with no letterboxing unless your resolution is not true 16:9."
"Folks, don't fret, there's no letterboxing in 4:3, nor in 16:9. The game will use the most bad-ass resolution available to your video card and monitor."
- Chris Kline, Lead Programmer, Bioshock"
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=659
From the 2K forum, awhile back.
I remember someone else saying crap like this. What was he called again. Oh yeah, Warren Spector. "Deus Ex 2 is not dumbed down!"
This is the laziest "implementation" of widescreen I've had the misfortune to watch in the last three or so years, barring EA's complete ignorance. Well done, Irrational. Way to take the lazy ass way out.
Creston
Edit 2 : "To be fair, I was playing it on my new beautiful 22 WS LCD monitor without a problem. "
Noone is saying that it gives a "problem" as in the game becomes unplayable because of it. However, in the year 2007, with a sizeable number of people now actually having widescreen monitors, implementing a widescreen "solution" that makes you SEE LESS than you would on a normal monitor is just fucking ridiculous.
And apparently nobody noticed this in testing? I guess a widescreen monitor for their testing lab was way too expensive. They tested it on a $300 Dell, and the secretary's old Compaq, apparently.
This comment was edited on Aug 21, 23:44.
"The game will render in full 16:9 aspect ratio, with no letterboxing unless your resolution is not true 16:9."
"Folks, don't fret, there's no letterboxing in 4:3, nor in 16:9. The game will use the most bad-ass resolution available to your video card and monitor."
- Chris Kline, Lead Programmer, Bioshock"
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=659
From the 2K forum, awhile back.
I remember someone else saying crap like this. What was he called again. Oh yeah, Warren Spector. "Deus Ex 2 is not dumbed down!"
This is the laziest "implementation" of widescreen I've had the misfortune to watch in the last three or so years, barring EA's complete ignorance. Well done, Irrational. Way to take the lazy ass way out.
Creston
Edit 2 : "To be fair, I was playing it on my new beautiful 22 WS LCD monitor without a problem. "
Noone is saying that it gives a "problem" as in the game becomes unplayable because of it. However, in the year 2007, with a sizeable number of people now actually having widescreen monitors, implementing a widescreen "solution" that makes you SEE LESS than you would on a normal monitor is just fucking ridiculous.
And apparently nobody noticed this in testing? I guess a widescreen monitor for their testing lab was way too expensive. They tested it on a $300 Dell, and the secretary's old Compaq, apparently.
This comment was edited on Aug 21, 23:44.
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