So... How classic do you want it?

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Also forcing aspect ratios is a horseshit idea. For Anyone not playing on a screen that's native ratio of 4:3 it's gonna cause stretching artifacts and make the game look nauseating

My $300 Best Buy bargain bin laptop falls into this category. I mainly play on my PC but it's nice to be able to play on my lappy when I go away to visit the family or something

[Danth]

I've seen a couple other people say that Vizax. Are there some widescreen displays that do not simply put a 4:3 picture in screen centre/letterboxed? That's how my monitor works, at least. I could set it to stretch mode too, but I see no reason to do so. Genuine question.

Danth

[Verityn]

I'm so glad I saw this part of the thread. I changed to 4:3 and it's seems to have fixed something I didn't even notice was wrong. As a gnome moving relatively fast it made it hard to navigate with everything being so close up to my face.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I play in the super popular 1792x1344 resolution.

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I was using widescreen until I discovered how much game I was cutting off.

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here is same shot widescreen, half the gate is missing.

Edit: notice you're not seeing any extra content on the sides.

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Nice comparison. Prefer the 4:3 image.

[soronil]

An alternative to that, if you don't need/want to use 25% of your screen for something other than the everquest window, is to use /viewport to create a 4:3 (or approximately4:3, don't have to be exact) view in your window.

This is a quickly thrown together example on my laptop. 1800 x 1000 eq window, 1333 x 1000 viewport. The entire UI fits off to the side. You can also do /viewport 233 0 1333 1000 to have equal black bars on each side, but then you probably still have your main chat windows over the main game view.

On my actual gaming PC. I have a 3440 x 1440 screen. I do 2400x1400 windowed EQ resolution. then /viewport 0 0 2000 1400. Slightly wider than 4:3, and then I have ~60% of my screen EQ viewport, 10% UI, and then on the 30% outside the EQ window i usually have wiki or whatever website up top and netflix or whatever on the bottom.

[Sonark]

You guys even try to min max available screen space.

Mein gott

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Sonark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You guys even try to min max available screen space.

Mein gott

Its nice to see the birdmammals as you fight them.

[soronil]

Originally Posted by Sonark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You guys even try to min max available screen space.

Mein gott

Try to be an ogre playing ultra wide screen in first person, literally can not see the mobs hitting you in the small ribbon of screen.
Normal wide screen not as bad, but still missing a lot of the world. The effect is not as pronounced in 3rd person, which a lot of people play in these days. But if you wanna 1999 it in first person, the 4:3 ratio is a better experience visually (if less immersive to some because you aren't using the whole screen)

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by Sonark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You guys even try to min max available screen space.

Mein gott

Originally Posted by soronil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

An alternative to that, if you don't need/want to use 25% of your screen for something other than the everquest window, is to use /viewport to create a 4:3 (or approximately4:3, don't have to be exact) view in your window.

Thanks! 20 years and I didn't realize you could drag UI elements out of the viewport. I'm going to keep some boxes in view, but the chat is defintely moving off the screen. Off to minmax screenspace again!

[Mblake81]

Hmm, here is a pic of 1600x1200 in window. I tried /viewport but it puts the image on the left side of my screen, is there a way to get it in the center?

btw, eq finally looks right after switching to 4:3

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