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Remove Move to wishlist Wishlisted Owned. Try adjusting the terms of your search, you can search by game titles, publishers, and developers. TBA Owned Free. Menu Store New releases. Sign in Create account Sign in. The search term must be at least 3 characters long. They also mentioned how to adjust the FOV to get it to look right. Their suggestion didn't really make the FOV look right. First of all, the cutscenes outright would not play; I hear the sound but see only a black screen.

Next thing is that the HUD is stretched; everything that appears on the screen including the crosshair is stretched oddly because of the aspect ratio being different. And another really annoying thing is that the weapons are all being cut off; I see only the tops of them. Honestly I suspect that this is happening to the whole screen, but I am not familiar enough with Q3 to be sure. But honestly I don't know if that is happening, and I suspect the FOV they suggested is actually not correct to match the default view in So next I downloaded ioQuake3.

Afterall, I found a bunch of source ports of Quake 2 that let me play Quake 2 properly in widescreen. But ioQuake3 did not seem to have any options to improve the situation, and everything looked exactly the same.

The only difference was that now the cutscenes were visible, although the aspect ration was stretched, making them look horrendous. So you know what, screw it. I give up. What do I have to do to play Quake 3 so it looks proper on a widescreen monitor? Posted: AM. Posted: PM. As the previous user said, you should use certain console commands. You can create an 'autoexec. Then you should change the field of view to get a real widescreen experience.

Default is I forgot to mention that if you use a custom resolution, the movies may not work. That's why I just play in x Once you have downloaded the pak9hqq This will bring you beautiful high resolution textures in maps:. Regarding playing Quake III Arena on newer computers supporting widescreen and high definition resolutions, there is good and bad news:.

Good news: using the ioquake3 app, changing the game resolution from the Graphics menu works — and provides you with a list of good resolution choices. However, if you really want to run Quake 3 natively to higher screen resolutions e. Note : the config files for ioQuake3 are loaded from the Application Support folder. So either edit the q3config. As with the custom display resolution, you can modify the Quake 3 config-file for many more options affecting the graphical quality of the game.

Thanks alot! Looks beautiful! The only downside is that the fans on my iMac Retina 5K, inch, Late runs wild playing. Unless to lower your Game screen resolution which is not what we basically want…. Maybe I need a newer version, but I only found 1. Thank you. For now I am somewhat confused.