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duffman91 oh yeah! Joined: 25 Jan 2001 Posts: 3207	Posted: 10-19-2005 04:40 PM                    I have a widescreen monitor and get motion sickness. An FOV of 120 is crucial for me to not get sick( i wish i knew why ). I noticed that there was a widescreen option, here are some results. fov 90 + widescreen : fov 120 + standard aspect: As you can see, there is little to no difference. The image seems stretched up/down slightly though. For those of you that don't like looking at the limp arm, give widescreen with fov = 90 a shot. It might suit your needs. edit: 25 FPS , actually, I don't mind it that much
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R00k straight at you Joined: 18 Dec 2000 Posts: 27931	Posted: 10-19-2005 04:45 PM                  I can see quite a bit of difference there. The room looks longer and deeper, more of a 'fish-eye' for lack of a better word. I have my widescreen LCD, but my current video card won't push Q4 at its native resolution, so I won't be hooking it up until this weekend when I upgrade everything. I can't wait to see the performance difference, but I wonder if the widescreen will drop my frames noticeably.
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duffman91 oh yeah! Joined: 25 Jan 2001 Posts: 3207	Posted: 10-19-2005 04:48 PM                    What I meant to say is that the difference between viewing angle is marginal (left most vs right most). I still would like a good time demo to try these settings out; as far as I can tell, there is no FPS difference between the two settings.
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rgoer btw cocks Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 3216	Posted: 10-19-2005 05:03 PM                  you need to play with the r_aspectratio cvar to get things looking right on widescreen displays
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MKJ Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu Joined: 24 Nov 2000 Posts: 44139	Posted: 10-20-2005 12:56 AM                    in other words, the widescreen setting in the UI doesnt work properly :P _________________
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rgoer btw cocks Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 3216	Posted: 10-20-2005 06:06 AM                  no, it should--I didn't know we had added that to the GUI menus... I always just did it in the console but if it's in the menu, that should work.
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Oeloe The Illuminated Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 1530	Posted: 10-20-2005 06:19 AM                  Yeah there's also an option to change the aspect ratio in the menu: Article: Hardwarezone - Quake 4 Performance Review
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