Q3 on widescreen monitor

[DRuM]

I just bought a beautiful 23" LG widescreen 1920x1080. In fullscreen, the Q3 display goes very dark but when I alt+enter and have Q3 in a window, it's fine, it brightens up as it should be.
How do I fix that?
Also, is there any way to configure Q3 for widescreen because it looks a bit stretched and squashed.


Ok, I seem to have fixed it like this and added to my autoexec.
r_mode -1
r_customwidth 1920
r_customheight 1080


Still need to fix brightness. Strange how it's perfect when windowed but not fullscreen. Since changing resolution, it's now windowed practically fullscreen size and still bright.

[menkent]

i'm betting something silly like the gamma setting is being handled by the OS when it's windowed and by quake when it's fullscreen. there's either a check-box in your video adapter settings to fix this (software override?) or you just need to up the gamma/brightness in quake and not play windowed.

[DTS]

r_ignorehwgamma 0

What kind of rig do you need to get 125 fps in Q3 at that res?

[DRuM]

i'm betting something silly like the gamma setting is being handled by the OS when it's windowed and by quake when it's fullscreen. there's either a check-box in your video adapter settings to fix this (software override?) or you just need to up the gamma/brightness in quake and not play windowed.

Thanks menkent, long time no see.
I've got the ATI catalyst control centre. Had a look through its menus but couldn't spot anything like that, unless you know the ati ccc and a specific thing to press?

[DRuM]

r_ignorehwgamma 0

What kind of rig do you need to get 125 fps in Q3 at that res?

Ah, I'll try that command.
I don't really know the answer to your question.

[DRuM]

Cool that command seems to work. Thanks.

[Don Carlos]

HF with your new screen dude

[DRuM]

HF with your new screen dude

Thanks, it's absolutely awesome, very sharp! Dunno how I managed with CRT for so long. Loving the wide screen and high res.
The mouse cursor needs a taxi to get from one side to the other.

[Scourge]

r_ignorehwgamma 0

What kind of rig do you need to get 125 fps in Q3 at that res?

Not nearly as beefy a rig as you might think. Newer hardware is capable of running Crysis and similar games very smoothly at that res. Running Q3 at that res shouldn't be much of a problem. I can run Q3 at my current res of 1680x1050 with loads of room to spare.

Phenom II 940 BE @ 3.0 ghz
XFX 9800 GTX XXX
4 gigs ddr2 dual channel @ 800 mhz

[Scourge]

HF with your new screen dude

Thanks, it's absolutely awesome, very sharp! Dunno how I managed with CRT for so long. Loving the wide screen and high res.
The mouse cursor needs a taxi to get from one side to the other.

Can I borrow that taxi? Just ordered a 25".

[Zyte]

r_ignorehwgamma 0 fixes the darkened screen as a result of changing r_enablepostprocess to achieve higher fps so this might work for you as well.. although not the exact same situation.

Im playing on a 18,4" widescreen myself as well, although on a lower resolution then 1920x1200. Took some time to adjust but it's all fine after a good amount of games.

[menkent]

and i just lost a few decently close games online, only to realize that i'd left cl_timenudge 100 on from when i was messing about with bots.

[MadMuppet006]

I have an acer 23.6' monitor ..

I have a clean install of quake 3 arena and q3pointrelease 1.32

I have tried to use r_mode -1 .. seta r_customwidth and seta r_customheight with and without seta cd_fov .. in both console and the config file

this is not working for me .. I have a small screen in the middle of my monitor with dark edges all round ..

any ideas? thanks in advance al.

[DTS]

Find a res both your graphics card and monitor support.
Should be the native res of your monitor. You may be able to add a custom res in your graphics card driver options.
(From the desktop right-click or Control Panel) Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/Your-graphics-card-name
It should be there somewhere. It's not on mine cause I have an old graphics card. So I use a program called PowerStrip to add custom resolutions.
Usually you'll need to restart your PC for the change to take effect.

Also, did you do a vid_restart in Q3?

[Zyte]

Alternatively, press + to increase screen size and remove the edges.

[MadMuppet006]

thanks for the replies ..

I have a recently new computer .. the native resolution is 1920 X 1050.

the graphics card is handling the latest games no problem so I dont think that it an issue .. it is a ati 4870 1GB.

I did try vid_restart ..

I have tried setting 1024 X 768 in game and I am getting a full screen but the config in both the defrag and baseq3 is still showing 1920 X 1050.

havent reboot the machine so will try that now .. let ya know how it turns out ..

al

[DTS]

I meant reboot for custom resolutions to be added to your graphics card driver (or Windows).
What you do in Q3 won't require a reboot.