So... How classic do you want it?

[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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[soronil]

Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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?

The first two parameters to viewport are the starting X and Y. So if you want to nudge it over 100 pixels to the right, you would do:
/viewport 100 0 1600 1200

[Mblake81]

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

The first two parameters to viewport are the starting X and Y. So if you want to nudge it over 100 pixels to the right, you would do:
/viewport 100 0 1600 1200

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[Fammaden]

You rich fat cats with your big fancy expensive monitors make me SICK!

[Baler]

CRT monitors only