Widescreen Laptops
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baardhimself
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PostPosted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 02:52    Post subject: Widescreen Laptops
Im after a new Laptop as my old one is getting so slow and is like trawling a bag of bricks around when I take it to uni. Ive decided I want to get a laptop with a decent graphics card, so either a 128 or 256meg ati or nvidia. So i check on Dell and I see they ONLY do widescreen laptops.. what is the point?! Im not gunna be playing fucking xbox on it, why does it need to be in widescreen? So anyway, my main question is how do games cope with the widescreen resolutions, i dont ever remember seeing widedscreen resolutions in the options for many games, does it squash it all up? auto adjust?
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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 04:08    Post subject:
a lot of games have native support or can be hacked ...

check out http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/


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Mutantius
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PostPosted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 06:50    Post subject:
Have tried these games on my widescreen laptop:

Operation Flashpoint, Empreror Battle For Dune, RA2 + Expansion, Call of Duty both 1 and 2, Civ 4, Rise of Nations, AOE 3, and Motocross Mania.


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baardhimself
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PostPosted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 12:07    Post subject:
ahh cool.. some of them look awesome like WoW but some look awful like Max Payne. What happens if you run a game that doesnt support WS or has a hack? Will it run in 4:3 with black borders?
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PostPosted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 17:37    Post subject:
baardhimself wrote:
ahh cool.. some of them look awesome like WoW but some look awful like Max Payne. What happens if you run a game that doesnt support WS or has a hack? Will it run in 4:3 with black borders?


that depends on the type of notebook you got, but most of them span the screen to 16:9 or 16:10
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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 20:37    Post subject:
hacked = changed to run in widescreen.

those that can't can be played with black bars on the left and right.

EA are fucktards, so no EA game can be played in WS (at least EA sports)...


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