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Originally Posted by MrCoffee
now I have a qeustion, I am an hardcore gamer/inspiring programmer/netowrk techinion/regular trechnicion...more liek computer guru, anyway I am getting a 19inch LCD sometime nextweek. Tell me this I have a choice between a 19inch widescreen and just a regular 19. Not im wondering if this will make my gaming ability go all weird if i go widescreen, and how it will affect my workspace? Will everything get streched out or what? Give me your opinion.!!
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ah the exact same question i had when getting my new lcd monitor.
i went with the widescreen lcd. and honestly i absolutly love it.
workspace.. windows will work fine in widescreen. you should be setting the windows resolution to whatever the optimal resolution of the montor is.. mine is 1440x900. workspace is easily a lot better. you get more space left and right to work with.. move 2 windows side by side easier. its just a lot better. it came with stuff to install, but it worked as soon as i plugged it in. infact, you could probably test widescreen out right now... find a widescreen resolution and switch to it.. then go into your monitors settings and shrink the screen up and down.
gaming can get tricky. as far as for me, (i dont know if its the same for every lcd widescreen monitor) it wants to run every game in the desktop resolution. 1440x900, that worried me at first, but actually since its running at the optimal resolution, it runs them without any slowdowns or loss of frame rates at all.
Counter-Strike: Source was the easiest of the games to setup. i simply selected the widescreen ratio, and resolution and done.. the game looks BEAUTIFUL, i get an advantage over many people cuz i can see more to the left and right. and the higher resolution makes everything sharper (on my CRT before, the more i upped the resolution, the more power it needed to run the game, not the case when i put it at this resolution on the lcd)
other games is where it got tricky... Quake 3 and Quake 4 i had to go in the config and setup a custom resolution, really wasnt hard, they work perfect except for the crosshair isnt quite in perfect perportion.
Battlefield 2 doesnt support widescreen yet, but lotta people are bugging them about it, and theres some work arounds to get it working.. i got the game running in wide, but the HUD is stretched.
had to go into the config and setup warcraft 3 and unreal tournament 2004 for a custom resolution also.
i had a website that listed all the games and how to do it.
and it doent cost a lot more... 19inch wide was about the same price give or take as a normal 19inch.
I absolutly love mine. i've gotten all my games to work in it, (mine doesnt have an option to give black bars on the left and right, so if a game didnt then it would be stretched)
but most new games support wide i think now anyway.
i'd never go back to a normal monitor, wide for me.
