widescreengamer.com — As a gamer using a widescreen LCD monitor, it is getting more and more frustrating when even the newest games don't support native widescreen resolutions. This article explains how you should set up your video card and monitor to get the best possible graphics out of games that do and don't support such resolutions.
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jacenatDec 6, 2006
"Like Quake 3"quake 3 has full support for all resolutions you want it too.r_customwidthr_customheightr_mode -1just because you are incapable, its not the games fault.
lowlightDec 6, 2006Submitter
There is no way to do that, how is this inaccurate? They get the job done as best possible at the moment. And as the article says, the best solution is to find the game you want to play in their database. This will tell you if you can force native resolutions, and if so, how to do it.
topher06Dec 6, 2006
Agreed, most 3D apps these days can render in any resolution, just that some modes might not be officially supported. Digging into the products manuals or Googling it will mostly solve the problem with a few tweaks to a config file or something.
topher06Dec 6, 2006
What's wrong with games on an LCD monitor? I have one with 5ms refresh and it plays just fine.
ceejaydkDec 6, 2006
Dual screen are annoying to play games on.Try triple screens instead :<a class="user" href="http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/gaming/list.php">http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/gaming/list.php</a>Matrox makes a little box they call TripleHead2Go. You connect your computer to it and it will detect as a single monitor only 3 times as wide.Then the box splits the ultrawide signal into 3 normal signals .. one for each monitor connected to the box.BTW even if you don't have 3 lcd's and a triplehead2go , I think their Surround Gaming Utility might still help you setup your games for widescreen gaming .. could someone with a widescreen monitor verify this ?The utility :<a class="user" href="http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/support/th2go/sgu.php">http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/support/th2go/sgu.php</a>
msicDec 6, 2006
try hexus or anandtech or tomshardware, all of which have active forums.PS I second WidescreenGamingForum as a very good place also for widescreen gamers.
master_of_fmDec 6, 2006
sounds like the motherboard has 3 memory slots, but chances are it only supports 4 banks of memory. so you can have 2 double sided dimms, one double sided dimm with 2 single sided dimms, or 3 single sided dimms (which would only use 3 banks).if you can give me the make/model of the motherboard, I can tell you for sure.
fu3goDec 6, 2006
I've played Oblivion on my two Dell 24" widescreen monsters. Even mounted one on top of the other so resolution was more of a square than a panorama. It ran pretty slow off one video card but was still playable. I think the custom resolution I used was 1920x2400.
master_of_fmDec 7, 2006
correction, not necessarily double sided, but a 128MB dimm with twice as many chips on it