can widescreen affect your aim?

[Wizrdwarts]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

No it aint. How do you explain the oval reticule when looking through a sniper scope? And the oval minimap?:shakehead:

The scope and the minimap are part of the 2D HUD, which isn't changed to widescreen.

It won't be stretched because it's in a correct ratio. I mean, using widescreen doesn't mean you have a greater peripheral vision.

If you can't see more, then it must be cropped, right? I don't get how widescreen works in BF2 without stretching, increasing your fov, or cropping the top and bottom.

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

It changes the pixel aspect ratio to 1.333 so it just stretches it out, without increasing your FOV.

[DontKnockIt225]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

Increasing field of view would just be an unfair advantage. And surly it is build into the games mechanics and so cannot be changed? However i am perhaps wrong.

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

Yeah it would give a person an unfair advantage, however it would also make the game look more natural on widescreen.

There are a lot of things that could give an unfair advantage: ping difference, screen size, joystick, lower graphic settings, higher FPS, unlocks, better hardware with quicker load times which would allow you to connect to a server before anyone else ect.

[XmetallicaXguitarstX]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

All doing that shortcut does is stretch everything to fit your monitor. Yes it is "true widescreen" technically, but you are missing out on **** you would normally see with a standard monitor.

Widescreen fixer makes it so that you aren't missing out on everything. I use this in choppers and jets only. Seems to slow down my zoom too much in infy so I leave it off for that.

Before widescreen fixer



After widescreen fixer




The difference - What you are missing running just the shortcut

[aLi3nZ]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

^Thanks for that info. I have just been using the shortcut edit but when I tried widescreenfixer it didn't seem to change anything. Do I need to remove +szy +xzy thing from the shortcut or something to get it to work?

[=98=]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

Uhh... doesn't PB pick up the widescreen fixer as a hack?!?!?!

[[21CW]HIVictim]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

Nice info Metallica... got a download link for us?

[Wizrdwarts]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

Very nice comparison Metallica, it's about time someone made one of those.

Wait, so using the command line does mean that it'll be cropped? Which fix are you talking about Evant?

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

I'm using the command line in shortcut +szx 1920 +szy 1200.

[=98=]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

I was under the impression that the widescreen fixer was deemed illegal by EA and Evenbalence because it gave users an advantage.

So, does this works on PB servers then?!?!

[jesus]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

I was under the impression that the widescreen fixer was deemed illegal by EA and Evenbalence because it gave users an advantage.

So, does this works on PB servers then?!?!

wouldn't "official" widescreen support be the same?

[=98=]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

Yea, that's why there isn't official widescreen in BF2.

I just tried it with PR 0.85, causes it to crash anyway :p

[jesus]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

Yea, that's why there isn't official widescreen in BF2.

I just tried it with PR 0.85, causes it to crash anyway :p

But isn't the widescreen fix similar to how widescreen works in every game that actually supports widescreen?

[=98=]

Re: can widescreen affect your aim?

I'm not sure, gives the same end result. I believe EA stated at one point it wasn't added so that everyone was on a level playing field.