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McJiggy Mar 17 @ 5:36pm
Old games in widescreen causing headaches
Does anyone ever experience getting a headache while playing an old game that originally didn't have 1920 x 1080 widescreen support in 1920 x 1080? I'm currently playing Red Faction and for some reason after installing the Dash Faction patch I keep getting a headache while playing and after lowering the resolution back down to 1000 x 720 or whatever the headache stopped.
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Midnight Aurais Mar 17 @ 5:58pm 
that unfortunately might be a you thing i do the same thing to older games never had a issue that said i always disable depth of field,distortion,motion blur or anything that makes the game blurry

it is possible that the post processing elements that i mentioned are broken after the patch

some games also use chromatic aberration i am unfortunately in that ballpark of literally getting sick from the effect
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Illusion of Progress Mar 17 @ 7:24pm 
In what fashion are these games in a widescreen resolution being played? Old games were often made with 4:3 in mind, so what they did when a widescreen resolution was chosen or forced would differ.

Some of them simply stretched 4:3 rendering. This just made things appear wider/fatter.

Others would change the rendering, but there was two ways they could go about it.

One was the "Hor+" fashion, which was to 'add to the sides".

The other was the "Vert-" way, which just "took away from the top and bottom".

FOV tends to be a big factor in people experiencing headaches from first person games. I could see a simple stretched result or a "Vert-" method resulting in this.
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McJiggy Mar 17 @ 8:26pm 
So far its only Red Faction causing this, though I feel like there was another game I played around a year ago that did something similar.
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Midnight Aurais Mar 17 @ 8:36pm 
you could try dgvoodoo2
https://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

this can force some aspect ratio fixes aswel it might have one that helps you

you can remove the watermark in the directx section and you can either emulate a videocard or disable the emulation for direct passthrough but thats for you to decide
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_I_ Mar 17 @ 10:00pm 
wsgf.org has guides for most games
many older ones that did not natively support 16:9 can be modded or edit ini files to support it

might use h+ or stretch to fill, but will work
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