Having taken BioShock home last night to play on my decent home gaming setup, I was pretty pleased with the way that the game not only played, but looked and sounded. There was just one problem though: I noticed that there were weird issues with widescreen and things appearing to be cropped. Apparently, I’m not the only one.
You may be able to fool the average gamer, but videophiles who have a hard on for this sort of thing are not so easily pushed over. My issue is more about the sides being cropped out, but here’s what else is going on: Some guys over at the 2K forums posted a screenshot of the issue and are trying to figure out what 2K is going to do about it. There was a specific question asked here (the problem also shows up in the PC version):
Can one of the dev team on the PC version please explain the image adjustment from the standard 4:3 screen resolution to a widescreen resolution? Will it be the most desirable horizantal plus or the less attractive vertical minus? It surely wouldn’t be a stretched image if it has native support.
What I mean by this is will the picture displayed on a widescreen monitor at a resolution of say, 1680×1050, show all of the image that would appear on a 4:3 monitor plus additional field of view on the sides? Or will the widescreen picture simply have the top and bottom cut off and show less image than what would appear on a 4:3 monitor?
A developer kinda-sorta answered the question … but not really:
The game will render in full 16:9 aspect ratio, with no letterboxing unless your resolution is not true 16:9.
- Chris Kline, Lead Programmer, Bioshock
Will 2K release a patch to fix the issue? Those of us that are experiencing the problem hope so. It sucks to see such a great game suffer such an issue.
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