True, but if you're rich...

Or you just get a bunch of 30" screens and make a wall of them. xP

I've been looking around on the net, and it seems that it's pretty commonplace to have 2 x 30 inch monitors. Check YouTube for 3007WFP videos.

But that would be weird, you'd have the middle as the frames.

It would suck indeed, especially in FPS games.

I think 2560x1600 really is the sweet spot. It is a much higher resolution than 1080p HD at 1920x1200 (4.1mp vs 2mp). Any more than 2560x1600 and your graphics card is really going to struggle. Unless you have a teraflop 9 series card, of course. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39829

OMG... That's incredible!

I think my 20" is pretty nice for gaming. Plus I don't have any of those widescreen incompatibility issues.

Yeah... you obviously remember my Battlefield 2 & Widescreen support rant from earlier this year or late last year.

Well, I won't be buying anything at this rate, what with another £824 being taken from my bank account (silly PayPal taking my money when I don't want them to).

I was just checking my bank account to see if I could afford to buy my 2 hard drive's on special offer at OCUK. -£720 says that I can't.

Ouch!

And yeah, I do remember that rant. I'm guessing that EA still haven't fixed it.

They still haven't added widescreen support because it would give an unfair advantage in online games, apparently.

Oh noes! peripheral vision! Maybe they could just make that part of the screen blurry so it's not stretched fat men, but no real advantage?

I think they should just add widescreen support. If that game could have native widescreen support, it would be one of the greatest titles out there.

I mean, people pay a lot of money for these widescreen monitors and when they discover a game that blatantly should have widescreen support doesn't have widescreen support, it causes rifts. I think that widescreen users should get an advantage over standard 4:3 monitors. And I think that 5:4 monitors should burn in hell and get even less side space than a 4:3 monitor.

Random question.... can BF2 do windowed mode? Cos even that would be more acceptable than stretch to fit.

Yeah, it will do a window. But I would prefer the image to be stretched to enhance that immersiveness factor.

To be honest, I don't find fighting against fat stretched people immersive. I would much prefer a window or fullscreen with bars down the side. Hmm, if the side was just rendered as horizontal extensions of the last pixels at the side, it wouldn't be that bad. Give you no advantage and doesn't look shit.

I want all my games to take full advantage of the 30 inch panel!

So you'd rather games looked rubbish?

It doesn't make too much difference to be honest. The HUD is stretched quite bad though.

Look at this image of the funniest Battlefield 2 moment ever, captured on my 24" widescreen...

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... een008.jpg

To me the minimap looks wrong and the map itself looks too flat, making it just look ugly.

The minimap looks wrong, but the rest, well, that's just Battlefield 2's archaic graphics system at play.

The mound on the right just doesn't look right to me.

BF2 doesn't make much use of SM3, thats why it looks too flat.

Er, no, as in the slope is too shallow.

You're supposed tobe able to run down it though

Still, it's got that rocky cliff texture that means it should be steeper.

Oh, and running down hills is funny. On CSS you can go down any slope regardless of height and angle, aslong as it isn't vertical. If you stay next to the slope and backpedal you take no damage.

The monitor just arrived in a very big box.

I took it out the box and was simply amazed by the size of it...

Pictures to be uploaded later today. Don't worry, I'll be doing proper size comparisons... comparing the size of my head to the monitor, a mug, a hand, a CD, my other monitor (15 inches) etc.

LOL, really random things to compare too! xP