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BioShock uses poor widescreen implementation!
Bloodborne \| 9:13 AM on 08.21.2007	13 comments

I just read this link from digg.com this morning and I couldn't be more surprised and appalled. My most anticipated game in a long time will not run properly on widescreen monitors! Instead of using the 16:9, 16:10, etc aspect ration with a higher field-of-view (FOV), it's been discovered that the game just runs in the old fashioned 4:3 ratio and cuts off the top and bottom.

As an owner of a widescreen monitor for several years, I am severely disappointed. I'm even going as far to say that I may not be purchasing BioShock until the issue is resolved. As it stands, the game is simply crippled on my (and a large number of other people's) displays. Please, take some time and post at this thread here in the 2K forums to express your displeasure. Hopefully if 2K hears enough of us bitch about this otherwise fantastic game, we will see the issued fixed.

EDIT: This issue has been confirmed by people on the 2K forum to be occurring on the Xbox 360. It affects all people who use widescreen displays for their games.

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13 comments | showing # 1 to 13

Butmac

But, isn't 4:3 the norm for PC games?

EternalDarkWing

BioShock for the 360 has 16:9. :3

Bloodborne

The vast majority of PC for sale today come with widescreen monitors, and developers have been able to support this properly for years (Half-Life 2, Company of Heroes both have great widescreen that I can think of off the top of my head).

This issue is not only limited to the PC as well, people with widescreen HDTVs are affected by this in the Xbox 360 version.

EternalDarkWing

I was playing the BioShock demo on my 360 on my brother's widescreen HDTV in 16:9...what are you talking about?

Bloodborne

The issue is not that it can display a 16:9 ratio option, it in fact does. But it is not true widescreen, in that the horizontal is stretched, but instead the vertical is reduced. Take a look at the game again on your TV, can you see the sleeve of the guy's arm when holding the wrench or not? Because you can see all that sleeve (in the red bit in the photo) in 4:3.

BlindsideDork

digg ftl

EternalDarkWing

Oh, I see what they did there. I can't compare because my brother lives quite a ways away so yeah. That blows, widescreen owners got shafted.

Professor Pew

That's lame as fuck. Yay for SDTV!

Keef

ahh well, still looks awsome on my T.V n projector...

GuitarAtomik

That's lame. Is that something they can patch?

dgenerate

Here's a screenshot comparison
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=37899

It IS pretty lame, but really, it's not going to affect the game that badly. I'll still be playing though right away.

Jordan Devore

Fix that shit.

Bloodborne

Thanks for the link dgenerate, that shows even more clearly the issue here. With any luck, someone on the Widescreen Gaming forums will post a hack or work-around of some type. Xbox 360 users, I guess you'll just have to wait for a patch. :/

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