Widescreen Gaming Forum

GTA allows me to select 1920x1200 right out of the box.. but the AR isn't really correct. with widescreen mode off, it looks a bit stretched, with it on, it looks squashed... so off is better, but still not exactly right.

maybe in time we'll get true AR, but for now it's good enough.

Some comparison screenshots here ...

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1007

My biggest gripe right now is that the mouse, while driving, is in permanant "free look" mode -- I hate that. When I turn the vehicle, I want the "camera" to follow the turn AUTOMATICALLY - I don't want to have to turn it with my mouse to keep from getting screwed up mentally about the direction I'm actually headed in!

FYI - I discovered a solution to this (kind of). When driving, as long as you don't actually MOVE the mouse itself, the camera WILL follow the vehicle in almost the same fashion as it did in previous GTA releases.

It doesn't seem to have quite the same "snap" to it, but it's better than nothing, and has made it a little bit easier to control. It's hard to not move that mouse when your handbrake is bound to the RMB, though! I might have to bind an additional key to the keyboard, but that would just feel weird.

I really do hope they add in an option to disable this feature in a future patch.

another option might be a gamepad. gta:sa actually supports gamepads with 2 analog sticks, so it plays pretty much the same as on consoles (of course with the much better graphics powered by the PC ;))

Yeah ... I'm kind of a keyboard/mouse guy ... hehe. I'm just stubborn, I suppose. :D

Same here - I can play games with a keyboard and mouse with no problems - give me a PS2 controller, and suddenly I can't even keep a car on the road in NFS:U. :lol: About the only games on the PS2 I can play without problems are RPG's and the DMC series... ;)

i use the mouse&trackball on foot and in car - and use my 2 stick gamepad (interact axispad ps2 clone) for bikes, motorcycles, planes and helo's - tends to work great for me.

using a trackball eliminates the mouse steer problem and still gives you easy handbrake.

on the graphics front - i went into the CCC and saw that i had maxxed everything out in there. setting it back to balanced and disabling the truform and catalyst ai stuff really bumped up the performance and it pretty much looks the same to me.

btw: anyone installed the ati 5.6 drivers (released today) yet? gta seems to crash for me with these drivers as soon as I leave the house (after loading the savegame, and exiting through the door). sometime it even works for a short time, but after a maximum of like 5 mins it always crashes.

anyone else having similar/different experiences?

update: reverted back to 5.5 drivers, and it's working great again.. strange.

I loaded the newest ATI drivers to try to get rid of that haze, that oven heat effect I was seeing at the start of the game in that neighborhood you first start out in.

It worked, and now I don't see the heat effect. Haven't had any issues with game crashing. Runs smooth on 1920 x 1200 resolution in widescreen.

i loaded the 5.6's without thinking about it. game wouldnt load. saved pref folder out of my doc's - reinstalled game. no go. rolled back drivers, and it worked. i guess that it just doesnt like the 5.6/9600 combo.

and as for the heat haze - i think it's supposed to be there. it's only apparent from about 1000 till 2000 - just like the real LA.