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Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:00 pm
by kaznth
I have a 24" monitor and want to play Quake3 at its native res (1920*1200), this resolution cannot be selected in the setup menu. Is there a console command that allows this?
Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:22 am
by ^misantropia^
Yep. Pull down the console and type this:
/r_mode -1
/r_customwidth 1920
/r_customheight 1200
/r_customaspect 1
/vid_restart
Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:38 pm
by ElDuderino
The problem is the aspect ratio is f**ed!
It's better to set it to 1600*1200.
Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:02 pm
by Grenader
Change your FOV to something more suitable for your screen, then.
Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:31 pm
by w0rt3x
lol, I played for like 1.5 years and only now discovered there was a bigger res than 1200x900 or whatever was there. Guess ill have to re-learn my aim

Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:56 pm
by seremtan
^misantropia^ wrote:Yep. Pull down the console and type this:
/r_mode -1
/r_customwidth 1920
/r_customheight 1200
/r_customaspect 1
/vid_restart
i'm wondering about this too as i'm about to drop £400 on a 26" widescreen (1920x1200)
does this change the aspect ratio accordingly or just squash the image?
Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:09 pm
by ^misantropia^
aspect_ratio = custom_width / custom_height
1.6 == 1920 / 1200
Take your pick.
Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:11 pm
by iris030380
I used to play in 1440x900 on a 19" widescreen.
/r_customheight 900
/r_customwidth 1440
/r_mode -1
/vid_restart
But how does /r_customaspect work? I never knew about that...
I liked the way it looked with the above settings with fov at 120. Got very used to it and improved my game.
Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:18 pm
by ^misantropia^
Been digging into this recently. r_customaspect doesn't exist in newer ioquake3 builds and I doubt it ever really worked anyway - its value was never used to scale anything up or down.
Re: Quake3 and Widescreen Resolutions?
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:28 pm
by oxygen
kaznth wrote:I have a 24" monitor and want to play Quake3 at its native res (1920*1200), this resolution cannot be selected in the setup menu. Is there a console command that allows this?
Hi:)
I recently created an app just for that (works only on Windows though...):
http://blog.obelisk.ro/2010/09/widescre ... uake3.html
Have fun:)