Check this out, BF2 in Widescreen

[Talus]

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Except for some UI elements, I think it looks perfectly fine.

[jnick]

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Meh, I used widescreen for about a month, and I actually think that 120x1024 looks a lot better. Everything is much sharper. The only way widescreen truly looks good is when it's TRULY supported.

[Sir. bzb]

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Except for some UI elements, I think it looks perfectly fine.

I agree and live with it. It is odd and weird not because of how it looks, its because there is no proper widescreen support. LCD's unfortunately have taken over and so has the notion that you can buy a single large screen to be both TV and monitor and the TV part will inevitably be widescreen since the combined purchase gives you a greater budget.
It was a very curious view of the relativly near future that was taken at an early stage of BF2's life.

[Rock_FU]

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each to their own, but I think it looks fine in the forced W/S.

[venny]

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widescreen looks wierd, i think i will stick to 4:3 still, looks normal. i dont wanna get **** eyed.

[DoubleD]

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Meh.. thank god my widescreen has an option to swap to 4:3 for some stupid games...

[sknight]

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120x1024 looks a lot better.

Haha. that would be 'tallscreen'

[JonnyMacFred102]

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BF series will never have WS, judging by EA.

[BF2_Joe]

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Haha. that would be 'tallscreen'

Maby he has a tallScreen. LOL :laugh:

[aLi3nZ]

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I have a 19" WideScreen LCD (In Center of Sig). The Stanard resolution is 1440x900 but I play BF2 at 1280x960. I have no trouble playing like this (Check Stats) and think it looks good. Previous Monitor was 1024x768 on a 17" CRT.

[Revoluti0n]

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The overlay still looks streched in the Widescreen shot.

Indeed. I do not think it's "officially" supported yet.

I have a 19" WideScreen LCD (In Center of Sig). The Stanard resolution is 1440x900 but I play BF2 at 1280x960. I have no trouble playing like this (Check Stats) and think it looks good. Previous Monitor was 1024x768 on a 17" CRT.

I love that, "Check my stats". Everyone knows this is the gold standard measure of any highly skilled player...

[imported_Bama2]

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It still amazes me that Widescreen support was done for some games like 3 years ago "Far Cry" and even other popular games came back and added it in a patch. Then we have DICE, who want add it for crap, even while the widescreen will be the norm in another year.
Does anyone know if BF2142 supports Widescreen? If it does not support widescreen then they are really living in the last century firing 30 round mags and not making a kill.

[ActiveMatx]

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I got a widescreen monitor and also do the "stretch hack" that most wide-screen gamers are doing.

I cant really notice a difference, but I am sure that if they showed me what its supposed to look like, I would see what I am missing.

I dont run games in my non-native resoultion when I have a LCD monitor.

By the way, my Dell 20.1 inch widescreen monitor rocks.

[redrider]

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One more time, it currently, the monitor, can stretch the picture to fit the wide screen. It also streches all the game elements in the picture. Yes, that does include the hit boxes. Wider targets translates into more kills. So many people forget this. You know there is more to this game than what you see on the screen, dont you? . . . . . . . .Red

[penetrator27]

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It also streches all the game elements in the picture. Yes, that does include the hit boxes. Wider targets translates into more kills. So many people forget this. You know there is more to this game than what you see on the screen, dont you? . . . . . . . .Red

Yes you're right upto a point if the game is streched on a wider screen then the hit boxes will also be wider. However this also means that you have a bigger screen to cover with your mouse, so the sensitivety is also raised relatively.

So making your targets slightly wider but also slightly harder to hit, net result no real gain in game. A lot more than you see on or off the screen in fact :p