16:9?

[Allard]

The screenshots are all in 4:3. Does this game support widescreen or not?

[St1ka]

Hi RT, yes it does. Gabriel Knight supports a multitude of resolutions including 4:3, 16:10, and 16:9.

[UberNoodle]

Does it use different assets or does it crop the 4:3 background to display in widescreen?

[Allard]

Publicado originalmente por UberNoodle:

Does it use different assets or does it crop the 4:3 background to display in widescreen?

Well, considering how the game is in 3D, I don't think they have to crop anything.

Publicado originalmente por Stika:

Hi RT, yes it does. Gabriel Knight supports a multitude of resolutions including 4:3, 16:10, and 16:9.

Thanks for the info, that's a huge plus. You should add widescreen screenshots to the store page.

[St1ka]

Publicado originalmente por UberNoodle:

Does it use different assets or does it crop the 4:3 background to display in widescreen?

The gameplay screen may crop depending on the resolution.

Publicado originalmente por RT:

Thanks for the info, that's a huge plus. You should add widescreen screenshots to the store page.

Anytime! If you have any other questions feel free to ask.

[kumabushi]

To clarify, we use camera gates to determine what portion of the screen to show in different resolutions. Anything outside of 16:9 is non-essential to the scene. That said, we do have some scenes in which the camera autopans, so it is possible in those scenes to see most or all of the area.

[sbN]

Publicado originalmente por oldbushie:

To clarify, we use camera gates to determine what portion of the screen to show in different resolutions. Anything outside of 16:9 is non-essential to the scene. That said, we do have some scenes in which the camera autopans, so it is possible in those scenes to see most or all of the area.

Makes a lot of sense since designing a scene for an adventure game requires omptizing the scene for the lowest screen real estate. I thought the same thing as the OP but I didn't care. GK1 was my childhood and it made me a better person growing up. haha

[daltonc.lima]

Gabriel Knight is one of the most wonderful adventure games serie. Hope we can a sequence of the third game, and some new update for GK 2 and GK 3. Oh, and please realease those games with brazilian subtitles. :)

[Grut]

Am I correct to assume 16:10 will have letterboxing?

[St1ka]

Publicado originalmente por Quark:

Am I correct to assume 16:10 will have letterboxing?

Hi Quark, Gabriel Knight will not have letterboxing.

[Rei dos Vermes]

Does the game supports 3840x2160 resolution?

[St1ka]

As long as your video card can handle that resolution, Gabriel Knight will run it.

[janne404]

Thanks for the answers,

It is great that you support wide variety of screen formats, but I just don't understand why full-hd or at least 16:9 ratio wasn't the native format for the art on this remake?

Today widescreen is pretty much the standard ( http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey ) and even the original gabriel knight 20 years back was shown in "widescreen"

For me it would have made much more sense to have black-bars on the rarely used 4:3 ratio, than to have to sacrifice and cut out art, just to make it fill the screen on every widescreen resolution? and that means on pretty much everyone here.

I know some of you won't notice it, but currently on widescreen resolutions the art really suffers from the "camera gating" (zoom and cut) since some of the original image is always cut out. This is most apparent on the perpective and field of vision, where the zoom&cut also makes the rooms and scenes look thighter and even bit claustrophobical compared to what they would look if the image would be shown fully.

I know what is done is done, the art is not 16:9 original, so you can't change it. But I would really love if you could give us the possibility to also play in letterbox mode. So that all the art and field of vision would be visible, even though at this point it would mean black-bars on widescreen format. Of course it should be only as an exta-option, since most of people will probably prefer fullscreen even if it means cutting content.

[Senc]

right now, I can not play the game in my widescreen monitor, at least I would have loved to see the game in black bars at left and right side , current status is too bad for us wide monitor owners.

[St1ka]

Publicado originalmente por Senc:

right now, I can not play the game in my widescreen monitor, at least I would have loved to see the game in black bars at left and right side , current status is too bad for us wide monitor owners.

That's strange, what monitor are you using? Gabriel Knight supports 16:9 and 16:10.

[janne404]

I bet Senc is referring to my post above, sure widescreen is supported, but not without losing some of the image/art in the process. There are actually us who would prefer to see the whole art, even if it would mean black bars left and right on widescreen.