Widescreen Gaming Forum

I think all current 3D solutions require landscape mode, but I guess it shouldn't be difficult to tell the driver to render the slightly different frames for each eye up and down, instead of side by side... :?:

Yeah, I had a look around and the gist seems to be the current type of LCD monitor for use with shutter glasses wouldn't do it at all; projector might work but there are concerns about airflow/overheating when the projector is not upright; CRT & shutter glasses, and some of the more exotic methods like a planar mirror setup or DIY parallax barrier might work, just don't know yet.

I'm curious about this but don't want to derail this thread, so will pursue this harebrained idea in the various 3D forums. So what are you doing with your tallscreen rig? Is it just to experiment & get screenshots, or are you actually playing games on it? If you're playing - any games that really benefit from it?

At first, I was only taking screenies; using a TripleHead setup in portrait to get crazy pictures is a lot of fun, although obviously the monitors never moved from their normal, landscape arrangement. Then I got a monitor that could actually pivot, and found myself actually playing Vert- games that way... Now I'm hooked and all the Vert- games in my collection are like granted a second chance. 8) I currently have three 16:9 monitors on a stand and the center panel does a lot of portrait, both for tallscreen gaming and web browsing.

And now ladies and gentlemen, a Tallscreen Special : Unreal Tournament 3

Gameplay...
4:3 (resized to 270 px wide)


9:16 (1080x1920)


Character customization...
4:3 (resized to 270 px wide)


9:16 (1080x1920)


Campaign map...
4:3 (resized to 270 px wide)


9:16 (1080x1920)


Hoverboard cam...
4:3 (resized to 270 px wide)


9:16 (1080x1920)


Titan cam...
4:3 (resized to 270 px wide)


9:16 (1080x1920)


Raptor cam...
4:3 (resized to 270 px wide)


9:16 (1080x1920)

More UE3 Games, Part 1 - First-Person Shooters


Borderlands
4:3


9:16


Start screen... The main menu is cut-off like the title but all the rest of the UI scales correctly.
4:3


9:16


Teleport/respawn cut-scene...
4:3


9:16


Third-person vehicle view...
4:3


9:16


Section 8
4:3


9:16


All the scary HUD elements can be turned off individually.
4:3


9:16


Built-in benchmark run...
4:3


9:16


Third-person super-sprinting...
4:3


9:16


Spawning on the DZ...
4:3


9:16


Even the main menu's background scenes are Vert+...
4:3


9:16


Bioshock (widescreen off)
4:3


9:16


Blacksite Area 51
4:3


9:16


4:3


9:16


The Ball
4:3


9:16


Cut-scene...
4:3


9:16


Main menu...
4:3


9:16


Mega Bonus ! Duty Calls (Bulletstorm's promotional parodic minigame)
4:3


9:16

Intermission: Unexpectedly Vert+, tallscreen-friendly places in Hor+ games

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Tallscreen gameplay is Hor- and quite broken, but some of the cutscenes have no vertical boundaries. Yay!
4:3


9:16



Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 3
Don't like Hor+ ? Open DocumentsCriterion GamesNeed for Speed(TM) Hot Pursuitconfig.NFS11.Save and change FitToVertical= to false. The HFOV is now locked !
4:3


9:16, FitToVertical=false


Hangars in flight games: gameplay may be Hor+, but somehow this particular area is always tallscreen-friendly.

Apache Air Assault
4:3


9:16


Rise Of Flight
4:3


9:16


Wings Of Prey
4:3


9:16

Just did another Podcast with TruePC Gaming. Brought up tallscreen, as we talked about the types of screen change. They thought it was hillarious. I'd expect it to make the final cut.

this thread is so old ^^

But hey, nowaydays you can do this stuff via Software and Downsampling

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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Tallscreenwise the game is vastly Vert+ but also a wee bit Hor+.
Gameplay goes pretty smoothly, however a lot of objects pop in and out of view during "story segments"; the vignette effect also breaks in UTS (Ultra TallScreen i.e 21:9 Portrait, patent pending).

Chase Camera

4:3


9:16


9:21


Dogfighting Mode

4:3


9:16


9:21


Destruction zoom !

4:3


9:16


9:21


Story segment

4:3


9:16


9:21

Ummmmmm nope.

Crysis is natively Hor+, so your screenshot shows only a portion...


...of the default FOV.


By default VFOV (cl_fov) is 60, so HFOV is 75. Using FOVCalc, apply HFOV 75 to any tall resolution and voilà !

1080x2560, cl_fov 122

Deadfall Adventures

4:3


9:21



4:3


9:21



4:3


9:21



4:3


9:21