Ns(and Other Games) On 16:9 Monitor

yoda_143

<div class="IPBDescription">how will it look ?</div> I am considering buying a Laptop with a 16:9 monitor instead of 4:3
How will games look on it?
will the image be stretched? will I have black bars left and right? will the top and lower part of the image be cut of ?
hope someone knows about this

ThinG

well... all I can say is, don't buy the laptop to play games on...

yoda_143

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this is not what i buy it for, I need it for the job, but why not combine it with a little fun ? Just wanted to know how NS would look on it.
so anyone has a real idea/experience ?

ThinG

Well I've played it before on a friend's laptop, and I hated it, everything is kinda small and hard to see, a laptop's graphics card usually isn't one of the best, so my general advice is, don't play NS on a laptop unless you are really desperate m8 <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

yoda_143

well when I sit in my hotel room with nothing else to do than play NS and let the company pay for my internetbill you could call me desperate. well besides all this my question wasn't really about the graphicpower of a notebook which allways sucks, I know, but how it will look on a 16:9 screen

Alex_T

A laptop can be a great desktop replacement providing it is deisgned for gaming. I would look at Voodoo or Alienware for a gaming laptop with the latest ATI 9600 mobile GPU.

PolyMorph

Gaming laptops have rubbish battery performance.

Papercut

Battery?

YOu got to be pretty retarded if you only run it on batteries.

yoda_143

omg, could someone just stick to the *** topic and tell me about the thing with the screenformat?

Ape

Haha, poor bugger.

16:9? What sort of measurement is that? 16 inches by 9 inches? Never heard of a screen being measured in those dimensions before, perhaps thats why no one has answered your question yet - they don't want to admit they dunno what it is <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
If you could tell me what resolution that screen supports and how big the screen is (in usual measurements please!) I'll be able to tell you how NS will look.

Cheers.

BigMadSteve

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It's the measurement for 'widescreen' formats (I call it letterbox <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->). 16:9 is a ratio (I think).

Summary - 16:9 = Widescreen

Ape

I see, that sorta makes sense now.
My guess is, you <b>will</b> have black spaces around the width of the screen, <b>unless</b> your laptop comes with some sort of screen extension prog that works in opengl/directx.

fat_al

Yea, 16:9 is a ratio. That must be widesceen there. I've played games on a laptop since like 1999. It worked great, up until I started having problems. It was 600MHz, 16MB ATi graphics card. 20-30 FPS on NS. Just make sure that laptop can bee upgraded in the future. You'll be all set then <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->