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jsynnott

Post subject: Windowed mode - cheap way to avoid stretching?

Posted: 02 Aug 2006, 12:51

Joined: 19 Jun 2006, 15:16
Posts: 12

Hi all,
would it be a feasible idea to run a non-widescreen game in windowed mode to avoid stretching? Would this give a big performance hit? I was thinking for example Battlefield 2.
Thanks.

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The_cranky_hermit

Post subject: Windowed mode - cheap way to avoid stretching?

Posted: 03 Aug 2006, 04:38

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Joined: 07 Nov 2005, 04:16
Posts: 3010

I think it would be a lot more feasible to have your video card do aspect scaling.

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jsynnott

Post subject: Windowed mode - cheap way to avoid stretching?

Posted: 03 Aug 2006, 19:19

Joined: 19 Jun 2006, 15:16
Posts: 12

Indeed that would be the perfect solution, but unfortunately ATi cards, while more powerful and cheaper than nVidia cards, dont support aspect scaling :(

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Microtia

Post subject: Windowed mode - cheap way to avoid stretching?

Posted: 03 Aug 2006, 19:23

Joined: 05 Jul 2006, 02:35
Posts: 193

The biggest problem to that would be that fewer and fewer games even support windowed modes.

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