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Wide-screen laptop OK for NR2003?

2 posts by 2 people · 29 Apr 2004 19:06 UTC - 29 Apr 2004 22:27 UTC

Dave Bradley 29 Apr 2004 19:06 UTC#38909
I'm planning to do some extended traveling this summer and I would like to keep feeding my habit of TA racing using NR2003 whilst on the road. The emachines M6805 is looking mighty attractive right now from a cost/performance standpoint. It has a wide-screen display (1200 X 768). Does anyone have any experience running NR2003 on such a display? Would it be a matter of adjusting FOV or such-like? The laptop has an Athlon 64 processor at 1.8 GHz and a Radeon mobile 9600 video chip so I'm thinking it has more than enough power to run the sim at acceptable frame rates, I'm just concerned about the compatibility of the S/W with this display aspect ratio. Any thoughts you guys may have on this would be appreciated. Thanks Dave Bradley
Dave Bradley wrote: <snip> > cost/performance standpoint. It has a wide-screen display (1200 X 768). > Does anyone have any experience running NR2003 on such a display? Would it > be a matter of adjusting FOV or such-like?<snip> > I'm just concerned about the compatibility of the > S/W with this display aspect ratio. Dave, I'm running a Widescreen LCD on my desktop. 1280x768. The nascar 2k3 3dconfig allows me to choose any resolution that the windows desktop can be set to, on my system this doesn't include 1200x768 (that not quite the same 16:9 wide screen). However in 1280x768 n2k3 plays great. The in race displays are full screen (i.e the 3d engine, menus are still 4:3) and it seems so show a massive FOV. Adjusting this doesn't nothing in widescreen mode. If u need to screen grab just yell. HTH -- SteveL (clear the weather to reply)

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