RE: [GD-General] Vector GUIs

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

Supporting widescreen is just a matter of changing aspect ratio. It's still
640x480, but it's 16:9 instead of 4:3. Usually relatively painless to
support.

Higher resolutions - yeah, they're a pain. You either run out of memory or
fillrate or both.


Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke and Microsoft MVP.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: phi...@pl...
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> Sent: 09 April 2003 17:16
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [GD-General] Vector GUIs
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> Noel:
> > Having said that, we also take it into account and ended up not
> supporting HDTV in MechAssault.
> 
> I wonder what proportion of console titles actually support 
> HDTV, beyond
> 480p. All those extra pixels have to come from somewhere. 
> 480p at 60fps, or
> 1080i at 15fps. 1080i at 60fps, with your 480p/i mode drawing 25% of
> potential. Supporting HDTV properly, sort of implies 
> short-changing people
> without it, which is 99% of your market (self included).
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil
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