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Strider_HL
Famous Hero
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posted March 05, 2007 09:37 PM |
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Playing on widescreen
I play on widescreen monitor with aspect ratio 16:10 (notebook widescreen standard). Resolution is 1280:800.
The problem is that game appears to be stretched and its annoying when you use camera rotation a lot....
So, my question is: has anyone found a way to play on widescreen without graphics stretching?
Usually there is a widescreen option in video settings but not for H5 
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dschingi
Famous Hero
the guy with the dragon golem
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posted March 05, 2007 10:04 PM |
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You can set the screen resolution in the sound&graphics menu. If there is no entry for 1280x800 try to edit the file "My Documents/My Games/Heroes of Might and Magic V/Profiles/your_profile_name/user.cfg" and change the value gfx_resolution to 1280x800
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Strider_HL
Famous Hero
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posted March 05, 2007 11:07 PM |
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Hehe Sure I know about video settings in game options  Thats what I'm saying - resolution is set to 1280:800.
The problem is that graphics are stretched. I dont what this distortion and waiting for advice how to make appearance "normal" on widescreen monitor.
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TemjinGold
Known Hero
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posted March 06, 2007 06:55 AM |
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Don't think you can. I play at 1920 X 1200 on my 24" Dell and it appears a bit stretched too. I just get used to it after a while. Now it doesn't even bother me.
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kcwong
Hired Hero
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posted March 06, 2007 10:24 AM |
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What happens if you use a standard resolution (e.g. 1024x768) on your wide screen? Do you get some black edges or does it work at all?
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Strider_HL
Famous Hero
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posted March 06, 2007 01:10 PM |
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Well, it works as almost there have been no resolution changes... its still streched only now its not so crystal clear. Same thing with 800:600.
There are no black bars on sides.
I'm just wondering that Ubisoft has not adopted the game to widescreen as all major game producers do nowadays
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kcwong
Hired Hero
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posted March 06, 2007 02:10 PM |
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Maybe your video card driver can help... both NVidia and ATI driver suites provide those game profile settings.
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TemjinGold
Known Hero
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posted March 06, 2007 03:26 PM |
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A standard res REALLY stretches it. A WS res barely stretches it. I'm basically comparing what I see to when I had this on my old 18" 4:3 LCD.
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kcwong
Hired Hero
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posted March 07, 2007 04:55 PM |
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Edited by kcwong at 16:56, 07 Mar 2007.
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I went searching around in Google and found a USENET post pointing to this site:
[url=http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page]http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page[/url]
They have a forum there, as well as many articles uploaded. Perhaps checking there could allow you to find how to configure your video card to play HoMM on widescreen without stretching.
This is this USENET thread I found:
[url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/browse_frm/thread/d0f156d6c7abfe20/7b121aeaa87f04ee?lnk=st&q=video+card+wide+LCD+support&rnum=5#7b121aeaa87f04ee]http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/browse_frm/thread/d0f156d6c7abfe20/7b121aeaa87f04ee?lnk=st&q=video+card+wide+LCD+support&rnum=5#7b121aeaa87f04ee[/url]
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grow
Adventuring Hero
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posted March 08, 2007 09:24 PM |
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i dont know...i got dell 20" wide and only thing ive played 5 on..they dont see stretched to me :s and i never changed any video settings
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TemjinGold
Known Hero
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posted March 09, 2007 04:53 AM |
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You won't notice it unless you've played it on a 4:3 monitor before as the stretching is slight.
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Strider_HL
Famous Hero
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posted March 12, 2007 09:07 PM |
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to: kcwong
Thx a lot. I will dig into that thread - your advice sounds like a real remedy. 
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