yes, widescreen will be cropped. instaed of full widescreen support, you're stuck with something that looks liek a failed indy movie. Black Bars. URGH!

Just finished downloading the demo, played the first 10 minutes then have to come to work! The water, the fire.. the mood everything so well blended together. And i think the code is efficient, i cranked everything to max and I still get a pretty smooth framerate on my crappy computer. Going to try to force 16x AA / AF and see what happens.

Given the internets and what they are -- with their tubes and all -- I want to sort of talk about the concerns people have. We take the concerns people have very seriously. There's been some concern like, "What happens if it's three years from now, or ten years from now, when I want to play this game. And, you know, Irrational Games has been hit by a meteor?" We will unset the online activation at some point in the future -- we're not talking about when. If people have concern about that they shouldn't be worried about that. This activation is for the early period of the game when it's really hot and there are people really trying to find ways to play the game without buying it. Of course, there are a lot of people who are legitimately trying to play it. We're not trying to be Draconian, we're trying to find a balance.

We have been reading and listening to your frustrations over SecuROM, PC activation problems, and technical support issues since BioShock launched on Tuesday, and we've devised a plan to help.

Starting immediately, we will be upping the activation count to a 5 by 5 plan. We will be raising the maximum amount of computers a user can have BioShock installed on simultaneously from 2 to 5, and allowing a user to reinstall BioShock on each of those computers from 3 times to 5 times. Also, we have in the works a revoke tool which you will be able to run on your machine if you want to free up that key and move it to to another computer (this works very much like Steam or iTunes system). We are also working with SecuROM and 2K customer service, so that when you do need to call in support problems, you get answers to your questions faster, without much waiting or being bounced around. SecuROM has been given much more autonomy to help fix your problems quickly and effectively. I am personally sorry for anyone who got bounced around in the past couple days (I even think I contributed to this problem) and we're going to make sure that does not happen in the future.

The game activation will be removed once the game's hype and popularity fades.
Source: Joystiq

And the Bioshock activation will be increased from 2 to 5 times.

AA - anti aliasing - removing jaggies

Af - anistrophic filtering - makes textures looks sharper - wel me thinks

problems? CD key.. no prob if u buy ori. but u can only install twice due to hardware binding

WS? i posted the link to enable WS. dont you people read anymore?

For those who weren't quite sure what the widescreen hoo-hah was about. Here's the screenie comparison from the widescreen gaming forum.



Red bars denote the areas a 4:3 monitor would see. The widescreen one is cropped in the middle.

2Kgame's argument is that widescreen's view is the intended view of the game, and they added the extra view for 4:3 was becuz they do not want letterbox on them. *shrug*

anyway they're intending to fix that up where you can change the FOVs from their main page site.
(and giving an Nvidia 8800 to the dude who hacked the game to view proper widescreen modes instead of cropping it up as a reward for his diligence, methinks they want to use his code instead of figuring it out themselves. LOLs)

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum...p=108586#108586

Wide Screem hack.. get it here.................it even support 4:1 ratio.. insane!

For those who weren't quite sure what the widescreen hoo-hah was about. Here's the screenie comparison from the widescreen gaming forum.


Red bars denote the areas a 4:3 monitor would see. The widescreen one is cropped in the middle.

2Kgame's argument is that widescreen's view is the intended view of the game, and they added the extra view for 4:3 was becuz they do not want letterbox on them. *shrug*

anyway they're intending to fix that up where you can change the FOVs from their main page site.
(and giving an Nvidia 8800 to the dude who hacked the game to view proper widescreen modes instead of cropping it up as a reward for his diligence, methinks they want to use his code instead of figuring it out themselves. LOLs)