22nd March 2006, 8:28 PM
No actually. In fact modern moniters automatically "fill out" the entire screen no matter the resolution. Resizing is dinosaur age stuff :D.
Having both a wide screen and "normal screen" format is all well and good, that'll be around for some time. I'm talking about 16:10 and 15:9 and all the other versions of the wide screen format that are flying around. All these companies are desperatly trying to make their little incarnation the new standard. Problem is, the differences between them are so negligable it really won't affect the consumers in any way except to confuse them. The main problem is that while I am seeing a lot of support for CERTAIN wide screen aspect ratios, almost none of the games I've played support ALL of them, and good luck for the poor gamer trying to figure out her aspect ratio so the game can be configured correctly. Fortunatly, I was able to look it up online though for the new laptop I aquired. I'm simply saying it is a good thing things won't stay this way. It is a fair bet to say my aspect ratio, simply from pure odds, won't be the one selected as the standard. That'll mean a small amount of distortion in a number of future games.
But yes, you are right to suggest a "normal screen" format that wide screen moniters can be switched into. It would be nice for when the old style formats are the only resolutions properly supported.
As it stands, image stretching is pretty annoying when I play old games. It would be nice if the OS, at least, could "fake it" by setting the old resolution in a "block" of image that's at a wider resolution, black bars to the left and right, so I can play the old games without that ugly distortion, and so in overhead games my character moves the same speed going left and right as going up and down (percieved of course, but it does mess me up).
And yes, keyboards have alternate formats, but they are recognized as non-standard and an effort is made to conform to standards more often than not. I'm merely saying that a standard should exist, and people will tend to it more often than not, and that it is a good thing if that should happen, which it should soon enough. Also, I'm suggesting that the golden rectangle should do the job nicely.
Having both a wide screen and "normal screen" format is all well and good, that'll be around for some time. I'm talking about 16:10 and 15:9 and all the other versions of the wide screen format that are flying around. All these companies are desperatly trying to make their little incarnation the new standard. Problem is, the differences between them are so negligable it really won't affect the consumers in any way except to confuse them. The main problem is that while I am seeing a lot of support for CERTAIN wide screen aspect ratios, almost none of the games I've played support ALL of them, and good luck for the poor gamer trying to figure out her aspect ratio so the game can be configured correctly. Fortunatly, I was able to look it up online though for the new laptop I aquired. I'm simply saying it is a good thing things won't stay this way. It is a fair bet to say my aspect ratio, simply from pure odds, won't be the one selected as the standard. That'll mean a small amount of distortion in a number of future games.
But yes, you are right to suggest a "normal screen" format that wide screen moniters can be switched into. It would be nice for when the old style formats are the only resolutions properly supported.
As it stands, image stretching is pretty annoying when I play old games. It would be nice if the OS, at least, could "fake it" by setting the old resolution in a "block" of image that's at a wider resolution, black bars to the left and right, so I can play the old games without that ugly distortion, and so in overhead games my character moves the same speed going left and right as going up and down (percieved of course, but it does mess me up).
And yes, keyboards have alternate formats, but they are recognized as non-standard and an effort is made to conform to standards more often than not. I'm merely saying that a standard should exist, and people will tend to it more often than not, and that it is a good thing if that should happen, which it should soon enough. Also, I'm suggesting that the golden rectangle should do the job nicely.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)