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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.
Comments
1. increased accuracy in projectile shots (could be helpful for the 360)
2. more detail displayed of items at a distance
3. cramped feeling (your underwater in some creepy place, maybe you should feel uncomfortable)
4. enemies feel like they are on top of you when they get close, super scary!
5. less information on the screen to render at once, so you can incude more detailed models. (also helpful to the 360)
that's about all I could come up with.
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Would you want them to change the FOV to 105 degrees if you had a 20-30% frame rate drop?
if the frame rate drop is unacceptable, then possibly the models and textures could be reduced to make the game run the same, but this would make the game 20-30% less pretty, and would cause tons of work for the dev team, not to mention a gigantic patch when complete.
I'm not sure if there is another work around for this, as it is a fixed platform, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
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