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Wow, i'm glad I came across this thread. Prices have just about gotten as low as they are going to get on this one, and I was considering finally picking it up. The pic on the screenshot page looks really stretched though, and not in a good way.

I might just play this one with black bars.

It's my fault that it looks worse than normal. I took those screenshots. Back then, I thought that increasing the FOV could make up for being stretched, so the widescreen shot is both stretched and has increased FOV. I know better now.

what about changing the "DefaultFOV" value, your solution mentioned changing the MAxPayne_Gamemode->GM_ChangeFOV, how can one change the "DefaultFOV" value from within the console?

It's my fault that it looks worse than normal. I took those screenshots. Back then, I thought that increasing the FOV could make up for being stretched, so the widescreen shot is both stretched and has increased FOV. I know better now.

Oh, thank you for the heads up, Cranky. So this one might actually look "ok", relatively speaking, when stretched.

It's my fault that it looks worse than normal. I took those screenshots. Back then, I thought that increasing the FOV could make up for being stretched, so the widescreen shot is both stretched and has increased FOV. I know better now.

Oh, thank you for the heads up, Cranky. So this one might actually look "ok", relatively speaking, when stretched.

Personally, I think it's better to play it with black bars than stretched 20% horizontally. But that's my opinion of any game that stretches.

Everyone seems so concerned with FOV, but the real problem is the aspect ratio is not correct. You can swing the FOV up and down all you want, Max will still be a fat dwarf in widescreen.

Personally, I think it's better to play it with black bars than stretched 20% horizontally. But that's my opinion of any game that stretches.

First off, I may be dumb, but I couldn't find any rules so I don't know if it's not allowed to bump an old topic around here...

But my question is this: how do I just get the black bars? I'd much, much rather play it like that then play it stretched, but I don't see that option. When I play it in 1024 x 768, it just stretches that resolution to my laptop's monitor. When I play it in 1280 x 800, it stretches the game (as listed here), but is technically that resolution.

How do I get it letterboxed?

What you want is called pillarboxing (letterboxing means black bars on the top and bottom, and you want them on the side). How this is done depends on your graphics card. Or if you have an old graphics card that does not support aspect scaling (nVidia supported this long before ATI did), then it depends on your monitor. You'll want to do it through your graphics card if possible, though.

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