[Better vision on the sides] - Options

[Kathiouchka]

Hi everyone.

I've figured out, that i can get a better vision of the game, only on the sides, (im playing wizard, so it's really usefull for me) by using this option (Letterbox), really simple.


You can see my resolution on the screenshot too, didnt try'ed on any others resolutions.

Here it is, you can see the difference with theses two screenshots.

With :


Without :




I don't know if it's a repost or something, but i play way easier now with that thing.

I hope it will help you.

Have a good day / night

[TehVoyager]

What option is that, in english

[spoonero]

letterbox, but it looks ugly

[TehVoyager]

Some people are more concerned with view size than view appearance. i'm one of them. an extra in game 15 feet on either side of the screen seems like a great tradeoff for a tiny black bar on the top and bottom of my screen.

i hope this works in 1440x900 resolution.

[CuT]

+rep, this is helpful to me and I've been wanting a way to do this.

letterbox makes me feel like I'm watching a movie.

[loves2spooge]

That's awesome. I have 16:10 monitors so it ends up looking really great! Thanks for the tip! Wish i could +rep you. Sry!

[Workas]

+rep, this is helpful to me and I've been wanting a way to do this.

I love when leecher's think their opinion matter. And letterbox makes me feel like I'm watching a movie.

That is bullshit to say, no matter whether or not the tip is good or not. All opinions matter... thats why this is a forum. So get off your high horse.

To the topic: nice that you bring this to attention. played around with letterboxing in the beta and found it quite helpful for my ranged classes (not enough posts so can't rep you yet)

[L0Liver]

no difference for me whatsoever o.O u guys still using crt monitors?

[Dazolod]

No difference on 16:9 or widescreens in general I guess

[mobikenobi]

+repped, very helpful

[Ludowitsch]

Unfortunately games are coded to only care about the vertical axis of the aspect ratio. 16:9 (1920x1080) is fine, 16:10 (1920x1200) has greater picture height. What games do to match the increased vertical size is they just zoom in until the picture height fits again. This pushes things on the far left and right sides of the picture out of the screen, giving 16:10 users actually less visible picture width. A circumstance remedied by running D3 in letterbox mode, or by picking 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions from the (a) game('s) menu.

16:10 users should get the same picture width plus a bit more visible picture height over 16:9 users, but doing things the way they make sense isn't really a strength of the gaming industry.

16:10 users, go and try it out. Grab a shooter of your choice and set the resolution to one using an 16:9 aspect ratio. You'll get more horizontal visibility.

[andric1]

I love when leecher's think their opinion matter. And letterbox makes me feel like I'm watching a movie.

What an arrogant and stupid thing to say.

[abusYn]

+rep this is very useful for wiz/dh

[Willy]

Since Im one of those who care more about if the game looks good or not than the field of view I propably wont use this.
But many of my friends propably will!
Have a +Rep cookie!