Patch 4.10 - Development Updates by Daidalos Team

[nearmiss]

I have 1920 x 1200 24" monitor

I gave up on all the widescreen stuff.

The standard IL2 factor for resolution is the best go, even if you have black sections on the left and right of the screen.

Elongated aircraft, crazy looking wingspreads, etc. just turn the IL2 into some kind of distorted mess.

SOW may be different I don't recall Oleg saying anything specific about how screen resolutions will be handled in SOW

[robtek]

This "distortion mess"happens only when saveaspectratio is set!

[Tempest123]

Yeah, I use 1400 X 900 no problem, saveaspectratio should be zero not 1, and juts enter your resolution. This is how you get widescreen.

[nearmiss]

I gave up on the widescreen couple years ago.

As I recall, even when I got it to work it chopped off the top and bottom. Actually, I was seeing less of the air battle area.

So... are you saying with widescreen you can see everything you can see that is available in IL2 views.

[robtek]

Of course with a widescreen resolution a bit of the top and bottom picture is missing in comparision with 5 to 4, but with a TrackIr or a similar device you don't feel it as you field of view is restricted anyway in any resolution.

[jermin]

I doubt it. large FOV will certainly help in high deflection shooting senarios, where your eyes should concentrate on the reticle and enemy.

Just imagine shooting with an uncropped widescreen in my signature.

[albx]

i think that given a data width the software crop the height to maintain aspect ratio... but what if you give an height and expand the width? i don't know if it will be simple to implement but i think that today that widescreens are most used it is a must have for a full immersion. I LOVE IL-2, and i think this should have implemented ASAP instead of new flying planes or other stuff (don't throw flames now please ) Right now i'm flying with the 2 black lateral bars, i found it that i have more visual than expanding it...

[albx]

Originally Posted by Tempest123

Yeah, I use 1400 X 900 no problem, saveaspectratio should be zero not 1, and juts enter your resolution. This is how you get widescreen.

yes but you will lose the upper and lower part of screen... what you will have is a cropped visual.. and you will lost the rear mirror and the artificial horizont and other instruments... have you noticed that? try with saveaspectratio=0 and you'll see that you'll have the same horizontal view, not a pixel less, but more vertical view...

[Tempest123]

Originally Posted by albx

yes but you will lose the upper and lower part of screen... what you will have is a cropped visual.. and you will lost the rear mirror and the artificial horizont and other instruments... have you noticed that? try with saveaspectratio=0 and you'll see that you'll have the same horizontal view, not a pixel less, but more vertical view...

I haven't compared the two directly but I usually fly with a wide FOV so I didn't notice that the mirrors or guages where being cropped out. It depends on which aircraft too, some of the "newer" aircraft (PF and beyond I guess) have a nice range of FOV, whereas some older aircraft have a FOV that is too close to the instrument panel, so its like flying with tunnel vision.

[Avimimus]

There is a difference between field of view (number of degrees encompassed in the image) and field of view (number of degrees not obscured by the cockpit). Il-2 actually lets one distort the image so as to see more degrees than a screen's width alone would allow.

I'm guessing that what you're most likely seeing with the Pacific theatre aircraft are simply better cockpit designs intended for visibility during carrier landings.