Better Widescreen Support Please?

[Atomic_Skull]

Change your aspect ratio setting in the ingame options.

edit: derp, already been covered. Still, my names don't look stretched to me. I could just be used to it, but I'm not seeing this.

Run FFXI in Window mode and resize the window till it's approximately 4:3. That's what the linkpearl and character name font is supposed to look like. The aspect ratio setting affects everything but character names the status icon text to the name and onscreen battle messages. I don't see why this is seeing as they are all displayed inside polygon billboards with font textures on them but for some reason they are an exception to the aspect ratio setting.

[Vold]

Run FFXI in Window mode and resize the window till it's approximately 4:3. That's what the linkpearl and character name font is supposed to look like. The aspect ratio setting affects everything but character names the status icon text to the name and onscreen battle messages. I don't see why this is seeing as they are all displayed inside polygon billboards with font textures on them but for some reason they are an exception to the aspect ratio setting.

I guess this is true. You can easily see what they mean by going into the ingame ratio settings and scrolling through the options of 4:3-16:10. So I suppose it's really just renta widescreen support which makes sense to me because it always kinda surprised me when I first started to see widescreen support. Widescreen TVs and monitors were technically still in it's infancy when FFXI came around.

Though, on computers you can solve this problem to an extent by setting resolution levels in config. On the PS2, even in widescreen support mode or any mode outside of 4:3, you're still going to see that crunched up text box and stuff. I miss my 47' HDTV, surround sound system FFXI gaming, but not the resolution that's for sure and it was enough to keep me on PC. My old TV though is rear projection so I'll always have fond memories of my PS2 days when the UI is burned into that sucker. It's kind of depressing when I'm watching a movie, and I'm like really into what's going on, then I notice the "Volderm..." burned into the screen at the bottom right in all of it's 4:3 ratio glory.

[Teraniku]

I realise this is a very minor issue, and I am only really posting it on the heals of Dev comments about other visual tweaks.

But I personally am really bugged by the widescreen support in this game. Namely the name as it appears above your character, and linkshell looking like a squashed tomato.

Again, the title screen has been mentioned before with regards to it looking messy, again it really bothers me that at the opening of the game, when choosing your character, the proportions are all wrong.

Unless there's a way in game to fix this and I've missed it

Also Tetra Master back please :P

I run at 1920 x 1080 and it looks fine with 1920 x 1080 graphics overlay settings and 2048 x 2048 background resolution.

You also need to go into the configuration menu in the game and set it to 16x9 screen ratio.

[Atomic_Skull]

You also need to go into the configuration menu in the game and set it to 16x9 screen ratio.

/sigh

They're talking about the character name font and the icon next to your name. These are not affected by the aspect ratio setting and always assume 4:3 no matter what the aspect ratio is set to.

[Jackstin]

Well I guess that settles that. If half the people who play the game every day can't even notice the problem when they look, then it's obviously not an important enough issue.

For the record though, next time you Level Sync in widescreen mode, look at the level sync logo above your character, and then look at the level sync logo in the top left with the rest of your statuses. THAT is the issue.

[Atomic_Skull]

Well I guess that settles that. If half the people who play the game every day can't even notice the problem when they look, then it's obviously not an important enough issue.

Half the people out there with widescreen TV's don't notice when their cable company broadcasts something formatted for 4:3 instead of 16:9 but that doesn't make it an acceptable thing to do because the other half do notice.