Widescreen support?

[Grotius]

Hi folks,

Will this game support widescreen resolutions?

[Joel Billings]

It's the same as WaW, which means I'm guessing the answer is no (you can play in windowed mode, but it's always going to show up in a 1024x768 window).

[Grotius]

I appreciate the response, Joel. It's no big deal to me; windowed will work just fine. And I suspect implementing support for various resolutions would be a lot of work, which I'd rather see you invest in AI etc. Still, I suspect more and more of your user base is like me: moving to widescreen monitors, or playing on laptops which have widescreens to begin with.

[christian brown]

I´m operating on a 17 inch flat screen and the details are fine, any bigger wouldn´t help to be honest.  This is not a graphics intensive game so it pretty much doesn´t matter.  The greater zoom out map ability does a good job of resolving the `Big Picture´ issue.

[Grotius]

I don't care so much about screen space as avoiding the "horizontally stretched" look you get if there's no widescreen support. It's tolerable with a game like this; with a hex-based wargame, it's pretty icky, since the hexes look like long flat polygons.

[christian brown]

Never had that problem, thanks for filling me in. I guess your Do-17s will be even longer than normal! lol! Shoot, if one of the guys gets his way with the long-barrelled tank graphic, I can´t even imagine, rail gun on tracks?!
Just out of curiosity here: I showed you my mine: 17 inch flat, now show me yours: 19, 21, 23 inch? Flat? TV? Normal monitor? Monster laptop? lol!

[Grotius]

Hehe, OK, that's fair: mine is a 30-inch Dell 3007W! That's 30 inches along the diagonal. It's HUGE! I love it.

[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: Grotius

I don't care so much about screen space as avoiding the "horizontally stretched" look you get if there's no widescreen support. It's tolerable with a game like this; with a hex-based wargame, it's pretty icky, since the hexes look like long flat polygons.

Simply set your monitor / graphic card drivers to stick to the aspect ratio of the application, no more stretching then [;)]

[christian brown]

Put me on your Christmas gift list (with that item in mind) and I´ll be your best friend. lol!