Widescreen Gaming Forum

A "C+" doesn't really do the game's wide-screen capabilities justice, imho.

Character creation scenes: There's plenty of vertical space to see the characters in full, so nobody cares if it might be a tiny bit -vert.

World map pillar-boxing: That's only with the default world-map user interface. There are lots of UI mods out there which change this. I use Cartographer which makes this a non-issue. Also, the world map only shows one location at a time, so it doesn't need some sort of special wide-screen mode.

The game's 3D viewport is -vert indeed, but not completely. It's a bit +horiz too. Because this is a 3rd person view game and one can zoom and pan the camera around freely (and also change the max-camera distance in the UI options menu). This isn't a competitive 1st person FPS game where you'd really want all the extra FOV you can get. There's no need for some uberhigh FOV and max +horiz in WoW.

Btw, I'm anal about wide-screen support, just so you know. I didn't buy a Battlefield game in the last 4 years because of their sh*tty wide-screen support, even though I like the games. WoW's great in wide-screen, and I'd recommend every WoW player to get a wide-screen monitor. There are loads of very useful UI mods in WoW, and the extra pixels on the side of the screen are a great place to put them.

Any vert - game will get at most a C+.

The grading system needs to be as objective as possible. Saying "WoW is more vert - than hor +" is easily measureable, and therefore, objective. Rationalizing this by saying that WoW doesn't need hor + as much as BF2142 does is being subjective. Allow more subjectiveness into the equation than absolutely necessary, and the game's grade will depend more on the tastes of the reviewer than the game's widescreen support, which is a bad thing for this kind of grading system.

Plus, from a technical perspective, making WoW hor + would be a trivial task. If Blizzard wants WSGF certification, that's all they have to do, and there's no reason they couldn't do that.

Also, dollying out is not the same thing as zooming out. Dollying out on a zoomed in game will cause distortion, and furthermore, it won't even undo the vert - consistently. You can read more about this here.

Character creation scenes: There's plenty of vertical space to see the characters in full, so nobody cares if it might be a tiny bit -vert.

I actually agree with you that WOW (and any other Vert- MMORPG, such as COH/V) is better in widescreen. But, it is certainly more than "a tiny bit" Vert-. I'm actually working on an article for the site that compares how MMORPGs handle widescreen, and how even a Vert- experience is probably preferable to a 4:3 experience (if only for UI elements such as inventory bags).

WoW users that read this should attempt to start a thread on the WoW forums to have them fix the vert FOV. Maybe they'll catch on, who knows.

I think we have a chance of 1:100.000.000.000 that blizzard will listen to us.

Just a feeling though.

I think we have a chance of 1:100.000.000.000 that blizzard will listen to us.

Just a feeling though.

At least you're optimistic, lol

Is there anyway of running WOW at 1024x600?

Cheers

If you can select it with windows your resolution, then I think you could use that resolution.

Little bump: I noticed when you are looking at you map, or traveling oversea that you get black bars. I think that it is the standard resolution. :wink: