Oolite and Wide screen monitors

Ark · Post by **Ark** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:10 pm

Does anybody from the forum have experience with oolite running in a wide screen monitor?

I am thinking of buying one but I do not want to end up seeing the planets in the shape of an egg

Ace Garp · Post by **Ace Garp** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:49 pm

I've run Oolite on my PowerBook which has a widescreen monitor, and everything looks fine.
The planets are round, just like they are on my non-widescreen monitor.
I think that this should be taken care of my the graphics card and the OS, and so distortion should not occur.
I don't know if this is the way things work, but it seems to be so with almost all programs.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:56 pm

Assuming the screen has a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio, which it almost certainly does, a wide screen works just like a wide window: you get the same width of field and lose some height. I do most of my testing on an 8:5 ratio screen.

Compensating for stretched display modes and providing the same overall amount of vision (a constant solid angle) are on my to-not-do-before-MNSR list.

Svengali · Post by **Svengali** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:06 pm

I'm running Oolite with 1920px x 1200px with an Nvidia GeForce 7950 Go, it looks very good. Your graphics card driver does the rest.

Post by **Eric Walch** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:19 pm

I am thinking of buying one but I do not want to end up seeing the planets in the shape of an egg

On a mac in windowed mode I can stretch the window within certain limits. Probably it also works on Windows. When you stretch the window you have an impression how it looks in a wide screen: undistorted.

Ark · Post by **Ark** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:19 am

Thanks for your replies guys!!
Ahruman I am not asking (or implying) anything. You have already done too much for oolite.

Ark · Post by **Ark** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:55 pm

I have just bought a 22" wide screen monitor. With the resolution of 1680 x 1050 the game looks perfect. No distortion at all

Oh man !!! Now I can die happy

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:24 pm

I've been running for 2 years on a 19" LCD widescreen 1440 x 900 and it's a dream.

The real improvement was changing from a old CRT monitor to a flat screen.

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:43 pm

TGHC wrote:
The real improvement was changing from a old CRT monitor to a flat screen.

So is my laptop - and because of it, I can only play Oolite at night... Any glare is enough for me not to see the ships until they're real close!

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:16 pm

With my old CRt monitor I used to play at night with the room lights off to avoid screen reflections and had a USB bendy stalk LED to light the keyboard!

Commander Mysenses · Post by **Commander Mysenses** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:38 pm

TGHC wrote:
With my old CRt monitor I used to play at night with the room lights off to avoid screen reflections and had a USB bendy stalk LED to light the keyboard!

Blimey I have a doppleganger!
I still have to do that. Much nicer when I can play at work on the nice LCD screens. Playing it through the lecture room projector is pretty neato too.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:36 pm

TGHC wrote:
With my old CRt monitor I used to play at night with the room lights off to avoid screen reflections and had a USB bendy stalk LED to light the keyboard!

This is one of the occasions when I really love the background-illuminated keyboard of my Mac!

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:29 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
TGHC wrote:
With my old CRt monitor I used to play at night with the room lights off to avoid screen reflections and had a USB bendy stalk LED to light the keyboard!
This is one of the occasions when I really love the background-illuminated keyboard of my Mac!

Now that's a neat gizmo, can you get these as a stand alone PC compatible keyboard or is it a laptop you use?

Commander Mysenses · Post by **Commander Mysenses** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:56 pm

@TGHC
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TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:31 am

Thanks matey I may well get one, has anybody else had expereience with these, are they worth it or is it just a gimmick.