Widescreen Gaming Forum

Yeah I have been looking like mad the past week to decide what 20" widescreen monitor I will buy.

But now that I've pretty much made up my mind (Samsung Syncmaster 205BW), I got a doubt. :/

Checked around the forums a bit and I just realised that so many games work like crap with widescreen.

For example, one of my previous favorite games is World of Warcraft. I don't play it anymore but I will start seriously again when Burning Crusade is released. But apparently you lose alot of view, and that just sucks. Saw that there is a mod that zooms out your viewing angle ALOT, but who wants to play like that, I want to watch my character just from the back.

And when giving the Master Games list a closer look you almost always have to mess with a .cfg or .ini file to get something to work right. And many games just support stretching, which is plain ugly. And not many games give better FOV either.

I just dont know if widescreen gaming is for me. :/
But on the other hand, then the graphics card I just bought(7950GX2) is pretty much wasted since it is made for high resolutions and shows its true power at 1600x1200/1680x1050 and higher.

If I am not buying a 20" widescreen I guess a 19" 5:4 is my only choice.

What do you think? Do you regret buying a WS screen? :/

So many games work like crap in widescreen? Perhaps. But so many work fine. So you have to use an .ini tweak - that takes, what, a minute? ;)

But if you're dead set against getting a widescreen, why do you have to go 5:4? Why not get a 20" 4:3 1600x1200 panel?

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Also, I swear this is like the fourth thread asking this sort of thing this week. Not sniping at you, just puzzled. :)

WS ratio mimicks real life. It creates a very increased sense of immersion. No regrets for me in the least.
& that's only gaming - using apps & other real life programs make things easier & more productive. WS DVD movie watching is also "the tops".

Oops. I forgot to answer the last bit. :lol:

No, I don't regret buying a widescreen. My only regret is they take such powerful computers to run to the best of their abilities... :D

I use TV-out from my computer to my widescreen TV for downloaded movies/anime so that isnt a factor. ;)

And well I dont think THAT many games support widescreen, most of the new games still need .ini files tweaked. Sure, that isnt a problem but it isnt always working very good when it isnt native.

And well I would very much rather like a 20" with 1600x1200 but for unknown reasons they are alot more expensive. Samsung Syncmaster 204B sure isnt cheap, and that is the only good screen with a "low" price I can find. LG L2013P got 16ms. :/

Seems like you already have all the answers you need to support your decision :wink:

I don't regret buying my widescreen at all. Even if I didn't game it'd have been a much better purchase than a standard ratio monitor. The extra horizontal space is just that great. As for gaming, all the games I play have working widescreen so I guess it's not a problem for me (hacks and tweaks really don't bother me either).

Also, just because a monitor says its 16ms response time, doesn't mean a heck of a lot. There's no standard as to how they have to report a response time so it would depend if they're reporting G2G or B2W etc.

Seems like you already have all the answers you need to support your decision :wink:

Haha I know, it is just that I always have a hard time deciding, I switch between opinions all the time. :roll:

I just mailed the store I bought my computer from and gave them a offer with some bargaining in, and hopefully I then can afford to buy the Samsung Syncmaster 204B. Otherwise it will probably be a 205BW instead(widescreen yes).

There are too few 1600x1200 20" nowadays. :<

And well regarding the 16ms comment, that LG screen looked very budget so I dont think anyone would recomend it for gaming. ;)

Just get both. 8)

Widescreen rulez the world btw, i'm never going back.
And is sure don't play games that don't support it.

Give me the money to buy both so. 8)

Just saw that Samsung Syncmaster dont support HDCP though. That just sucks when I got a GPU that supports it. :(

Meh, give me some advice on 19" screen! :D

Or maybe I'll just take off the Raptor harddrive from the order and buy a screen for even more money! :/