Tipstaff

Got this off of Fudzilla:
It seems that PC players of the just-released BioShock 2 are going to be in for a ride in the way-back machine to revisit the same widescreen issues that also plagued the first BioShock release on the PC.

The widescreen support issue centers around the fact that the game takes the standard 4:3 aspect ratio image and cuts off the top and bottom when rendered on a widescreen monitor. This gives players with a 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio widescreen monitor less of the image.

It would appear, however, that 2K Games has a fix on the way to address full widescreen support which will allow for in-cropped play for those with widescreen displays. No one really knows how this problem escaped through testing without someone noticing, given the fact that there was such uproar over this problem on the PC with the first BioShock.

There is no word on when the expected patch will be released and no denial on 2K Games’s part suggesting that this is the way the image was intended to be displayed. It looks like it is going to get fixed; it is just a question of when.

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Tipstaff

HERE is an official response to this on The Cult of Rapture website.

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BlueMak

I am glad they act mature this time instead of silly arguments. Good for them for the fix.

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comp_ali

Are they that silly to forget yo fix the issue before the release like the first one. hmmm

Tipstaff

From what I read on the 2K forums that to fix that "... last minute bug" they copied code from the first game, and used it to fix the bug in the 2nd game, but by doing so they copied coded that undid or broke the horizontal FOV lock option that was introduced in the Bioshock 1.1 patch. The fact that it got by testing AFTER that is what doesn't make sense, because if that was the case, where is the option in the menus for a horizontal FOV lock?

There's a bunch of conspiracy theories going around, but I don't care. I just want it fixed.

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