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Mr Ed

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Widescreen Mode Has Stopped Working For Games
« on: December 01, 2004, 09:29:00 AM »
Uh, you sure it's running in 4:3 and not 16:9.  Sounds like it just that your TV needs to manually be set to widescreen mode.  That's normal.
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gamerguy999

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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2004, 03:04:00 PM »
With my tv,  you cna switch between auto aspect, 4:3, and 16:9. If yours can do that, switch it to 16:9 on the tv and see what happens.
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Mr Ed

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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2004, 10:07:00 PM »
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Mr Ed

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« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2004, 09:32:00 AM »
What type of video connector are you using?  You mentioned SCART.
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rtheil

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« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2004, 01:25:00 PM »
Any TV I've seen that is HD knows what resolution it is receiving from the source. My bigscreen tv at home will only display what it's given. There is no way to switch modes in either of the component inputs. This is the same way with my plasma. If your TV isn't showing it right, it probably allows you to switch modes on the component input.

I think what you don't understand is that the people here are trying to give you a suggestion on how to figure out what the problem is. They're not trying to tell you how to fix it...
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fahrenheit

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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2004, 06:41:00 PM »
QUOTE (michal @ Dec 2 2004, 09:00 PM)
Why would Halo and Halo2 be the only games to have this problem? And ESPECIALLY why did Halo tell the TV what mode to be in the first time it ran but not any time since?

Firstly, Halo 1 is 4:3 only. Always has been, always will be. The fact your TV switched was probably due to the voltage on pin 8 of the SCART. Why it only happened once uhh.gif

Halo 2's widescreen is lousy (at least on PAL) there was a live patch recently that made an adjustment to widescreen. I can't compare to what it was like prior to this, but it would be best described as psuedo-widescreen, it looks very squashed horizontally.
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