Gaming BioShock Gameplay Review

Look, I'll go buy you a new bottle of milk if you've spilt it.

 

ah well, i was expecting extra on each side when i bought my widescreen monitor.

so on a widescreen monitor, is it better to run a stretched 4:3 resolution or run a 16:10 resolution?

the 360 version posted above is similar to having 1280x1024, and stretched.

 

No, it'll look pish at non native res.

 

Hey, it doesn't even affect me yet! I don't even own a PC or a 360 at the moment. Haha. The point is valid though. A more immersive experience will be had with the correct FOV relative to each format. Just like in Half-Life 2, for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CounterStrike_AspectRatioComparison.png

 

Tim's playing around in the .ini file and has found and FOV edit but it's in the editor engine only There's nothing in the normal renderer that will allow you to change it from 75.0 to 82.2 for 16:10.

He is playing with changing the Physics engine from 2 threads to 4

 

Oh joy, I get the game, and whadda ya know.

I can't run it.

I'm tired of not being able to run games...

 

You probably should've checked first.

 

Upgrade like everyone else then?

 

As I explained before, 4:3 is more like your natural field of vision.

However widescreen places more emphasis on the horizontal axis - which is good for games where you tend to be looking left an right. By cropping the vertical axis, they are not diminishing your horizontal view. If they cropped the horizontal axis for 4:3 users they would lose part of the more valuable screen real estate.

Typical 19" monitor = 1280x1024 = 1,310,720 pixels
Typical 19" widescreen = 1440 x 900 = 1,296,000 pixels

Or how about 1600x1200 vs 1680x1050?

Widescreen monitors tend to have less pixels that there traditional equivalent.

 

Show me a 4:3 24" monitor (1920 x 1440) and I'll concede widescreen has less pixels.

 

You have the equivalents wrong, widescreens have more pixels.
4:3 = 16:9
1024x768 = 1366x768
1280x1024 is 5:4 not 4:3 and theres not really a WS equivalent as it would need a res of 1820x1024
1600x1200 = 1920x1080 (1920x1200 16:10)

 

Err, no it isn't. Not even nearly. Your human vision is much wider than it is taller. This isn't some matter of opinion, this is a fact. Your horizontal peripheral version is around 170 to 190 degrees, vertically it's more like 100 degrees. That's about 18:10 or 9:5... Which is far closer to 16:9 than 4:3. How are you disputing this?

 

Your welcome to buy the parts for me.

Contrary to popular belief, not everyone can afford new parts.

 

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Contrary to your belief, everyone can get a job and earn money for new parts.

 

True, but to run the latest games you need the latest parts

 

So you bought the game without finding out if your machine matched the minimum requirements and now your moaning it doesn't run?

 

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Or try reading the min specs?

 

not necessarily... but you do need a PC that's reasonably up to date. People are running the demo just fine on last year's mid-range for example - it'll also run on a 6600 GT... at 640x480/800x600

 

But you cannot expect to keep playing the latest games if you do not upgrade, the only thing anyone can say if you lack the hardware to play it is -> get the hardware to play it. What specs have you got, it could not work for a number of reasons btw...