BioShock Widescreen Woes [Aug 21, 2007, 9:52 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Widescreen
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.
If you want some more details on what exactly happened and how the fix works, check googlestater's post:
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11658&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=325
He provides the correct numbers to plug into your FOV fix utility, based on the type of monitor you have. Interestingly he points out "the reason this works is that the devs designed the game to have a constant FOV of 75 degrees, regardless of your resolution, which is where thier unwanted zoom comes in the picture". Not cool for PC gamers, is it?
Now that we have a fix, let the rampant speculation on the choice of a constant 75 degree FOV begin! I don't care if they built the game around Standard Definition TVs running consoles and didn't bother testing WS. I'm gonna go play.
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This comment was edited on Aug 22, 11:29.
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11658&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=325
He provides the correct numbers to plug into your FOV fix utility, based on the type of monitor you have. Interestingly he points out "the reason this works is that the devs designed the game to have a constant FOV of 75 degrees, regardless of your resolution, which is where thier unwanted zoom comes in the picture". Not cool for PC gamers, is it?
Now that we have a fix, let the rampant speculation on the choice of a constant 75 degree FOV begin! I don't care if they built the game around Standard Definition TVs running consoles and didn't bother testing WS. I'm gonna go play.
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This comment was edited on Aug 22, 11:29.
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