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BioShock Widescreen Slices Vertical View
by Nick Breckon, Aug 21, 2007 11:03am PDTIn a rapidly-expanding thread on the 2K Games forum, reports are
coming in that 2K Boston and Australia's just-released shooter BioShock (PC, X360) uses a cropping method for its widescreen display, cutting down on the vertical view rather than expanding the horizontal width (illustrated left). The problem apparently exists for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions, and cannot be fixed with an edit of the game's FOV (field of view) setting.
The issue took forum goers by surprise, as 2K Boston lead programmer Chris Kline assured fans last May that BioShock's widescreen view would show more, rather than less. "The game will render in full 16:9 aspect ratio, with no letterboxing unless your resolution is not true 16:9," Kline said in a thread on the 2K forums. "You will see more in widescreen. We use a different projection matrix; there is no squashing or stretching of the image involved." Shacknews can confirm that the problem exists in the PC demo of BioShock, and has contacted 2K Games for comment.
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You should get pillarboxing rather than letterboxing (i.e. black bars down the left and right side) unless your TV is set to stretch 4:3 images to fill 16:9. (Actually, I'm not sure if the 360 would sendi a 4:3 image, rather than 16:9 image with lots of black pixels, in which case the TV would only stretch if it has some option to force stretching of 4:3-within-16:9 which not all have. Probably depends on the type of cable/output you're using.)
Stretching 4:3 to 16:9 is pretty horrible anyway so I'd say having the black bars at the side, and full image height, is the best compromise right now. That's the only way to see the "full" image with no distortion. (I say full in quotes because maybe the developers really intended for such a small FOV in widescreen, as strange and disagreeable as that choice may seem. Personally I hope it's just a mistake and that they patch the game either way but who knows what their intentions were.)
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