Grimrock

Has anyone discovered a way to increase the FOV? I play on a large display, and the FOV feels quite narrow.

The slightly narrow FOV is undoubtedly intentional, adding to the claustrophobic feel of the game. Although I'd like a wider one myself, hopefully a simple .cfg edit will come to light soon.

It's supposed to be narrow...

The low FOV makes it feel like Dungeon Master. This is a good thing.

The problem is this. I play on a 27" display that's set about 18" from my nose. That works great for most games, most of the time. But when a game has a really narrow FOV, it's very disconcerting. Narrow FOV is not a good thing; it might be a good thing for some people, but then they don't have to adjust it if they don't want to.

FOV should be editable in general (at least within a reasonable range, e.g. 60 - 90) since some people can't cope with small FOVs very well, and some people actually get headaches off them.

This becomes a bigger issue when you use 16:9 and instead of widening the horizontal FOV to compensate, it narrows the vertical FOV. It essentially forces you to run it at a 4:3 resolution to get the best possible vision.

Ice wrote:FOV should be editable in general (at least within a reasonable range, e.g. 60 - 90) since some people can't cope with small FOVs very well, and some people actually get headaches off them.

This becomes a bigger issue when you use 16:9 and instead of widening the horizontal FOV to compensate, it narrows the vertical FOV. It essentially forces you to run it at a 4:3 resolution to get the best possible vision.

Yes. It's worse now that you can't even buy 16.10 displays; they're all 16.9, and it only exacerbates the problem.

sage2 wrote:

Ice wrote:FOV should be editable in general (at least within a reasonable range, e.g. 60 - 90) since some people can't cope with small FOVs very well, and some people actually get headaches off them.

This becomes a bigger issue when you use 16:9 and instead of widening the horizontal FOV to compensate, it narrows the vertical FOV. It essentially forces you to run it at a 4:3 resolution to get the best possible vision.

Yes. It's worse now that you can't even buy 16.10 displays; they're all 16.9, and it only exacerbates the problem.

You can still buy big 16:10 displays. I have this 1920x1200 one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6824254052 Got some ok reviews, but mine was amazingly perfect after some BC RGB tweaks in it's settings.

You are correct. I was exagerating. But I wasn't able to find a 120hz 16.10 display; and that was important to me. In general they have definited moved away from 16.10 displays.

sage2 wrote:You are correct. I was exagerating. But I wasn't able to find a 120hz 16.10 display; and that was important to me. In general they have definited moved away from 16.10 displays.

A big shame, really. 1920x1200 is much better than 1920x1080, but the industry is all 16:9 now (unless you feel like paying a major premium for the surviving 1920x1200).