Scaling poll

You guys with widescreens do you use scaling when playing et or not?

You have posted in this forum: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject:

Explain this "scaling" plz?

You have posted in this forum: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject:

the best i can explain it is this

default scaling for me makes et take up the whole wide screen...

no scaling causes et to have black bars on my screen BUT be nice and clear...

this only applies for LCD wide screens really the blurry part as they cant run anything other then the default res with out being blurry... CRTs have no problems.

So if ur running widescreen im asking really, do you have black bars, or does et take up the whole screen...

unless their is some widescreen option im missing in et... i dont see 1680X1050.

You have posted in this forum: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject:

Seems to me this is exactly like watching a Standard Format show or movie on a widescreen TV. Its not formatted to fit, so you get the black bars. If you "make" it fit, it will stretch the image to fit (and distort it). I don't think that ET itself is engineered to be "widescreen". I could be wrong, but I would think the game would need to render differently if it did. Just like "pan-and-scan" on TVs, where a widescreen format has been "zoomed in" to fit on a standard size TV, you lose part of the picture.

You have posted in this forum: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject:

I used to play on a 17" WS with no bars, bigger heads though Wink

On a 19" 4:3 now & getting a 24" + a 37 or 42" WS soon.

-P9

You have posted in this forum: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject:

don't know what it is but I assume mine is on since I play on widesceen and no bars

You have posted in this forum: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject:

I play on a 22 inch wide screen at 1050 x 1680 with no bars.

You need to open up your etconfig.cfg and modify a few things.

1. seta r_customHeight 1050 seta r_customWidth 1680
2. add this to your config seta r_mode -1

Then execute your config and /vid_restart.
Should be good to go after that.

You have posted in this forum: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:21 am Post subject:

I'll have to try that...

You have posted in this forum: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject:

HalfBaked wrote: › ‹ Select ›‹ Expand ›

1. seta r_customHeight 1050 seta r_customWidth 1680
2. add this to your config seta r_mode -1

Then execute your config and /vid_restart.
Should be good to go after that.

Did that in et... vid restart no go... set me at 1280X1024?

You have posted in this forum: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

Should look like this

seta r_customwidth "1680"
seta r_customheight "1050"

Just find it in your config and change the resolution value. If you just add two new lines it wont work.

This next line is not in your normal default config so you have to add it manually

seta r_mode "-1"

That's how I have it in my config and it works fine.

You have posted in this forum: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject:

Crap... forgot that other thing... oops

ty will try again.

edit works pefect dude thats great lol ty.. i just forgot the -1 thing.