Anyone else bothered by only supporting 16:9 resolutions in pc games?

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SvennoJ said:

Zkuq said:
Wait, what? There are games that only support 16:9?

I suppose it's not really my problem as I have a 16:9 monitor... But it does suck. 4:3 monitors aren't too uncommon just yet, and it shouldn't be hard to support them properly. What about 16:10? Would it work any better? Or do these games not support 16:10 either?

No, no 16:10 support either.

I don't need a 16:9 monitor for everything else I do on the pc, but now I need to upgrade to keep playing games in the same vertical resolution i've been used to for years. So I would need a 1920x1080 monitor, and probably also a new graphics card to render the extra pixels at the same fps, which also means installing a new power supply nowadays.

And sure then there are no black bars, but it still doesn't make sense for games where the vertical axis is just as important as the horizontal, ie rts and top down action games. I don't see any point in playing civilization or tropico in widescreen.

Im looking at my Witcher 2 Config right now and Im selected at 1920x1200 (16x10)

Hell, I even see 1280x1024

 

 

It is probably just the demos.  Makes sense they limit them to only the most popular of gaming resolutions.