Widescreen Gaming Forum

So I got 16:10 aspect ratio locked in on FFXI and am running at 1680 x 1050. It looks normal, but every once in a while I get this eerie feeling that things in the distance looked stretched and such. Like my character looks normal (except on the main screen they are stretched, cant fix that) but once I get in game, character looks normal, then I start looking in the distance and some things like the crag in Konschat highlands looks stretched and not normal (also I am using a windower and I cranked up the view distance) so I am viewing the crag from the entrance of Valkurm Dunes (I came out a bit until I could see to the crag). Perhaps its just an issue with the increased view distance as thats not a part of the game (cant incread VD unless u have a windower). Anybody else running FFXI widescreen and notice some weird stuff?

Also since I have a bigger monitor (Acer 22" 2216W) and not an appropriate resolution (looks nice but it should be higher, I just chose this monitor so it would be easier on my video card) the textures look crappier. Anyway to increase them beyond the 2048x2048 in the registry tweak. Also I should ask while im here: That registry tweak, setting the background res to 2048 x 2048, will that stretch a widescreen res of 1680x1050, since the background res is only of the textures?