Runescape Resizable Window.

[Central_Keeper]

Now that Rev thing is really a good idea, stretch your screen far so you can see them before they hit you, but most of the time, I can hear them firing off spells or ice darts before I see them...........

 

 

 

which usually means time to jet.........

[AndyPandy]

i made a topic very like this before :?

 

thats insane picture btw :o get a 3rd monitor :)

 

edit: hmm looks very strechted whats picture quality?

 

oh and with that the screen look in elf city etc :)

 

 

 

 

 

Well it seems that if you go too far, the client begins to compensate for distance, almost like it is turning up or having rolled edges. It is obvious that it was not meant to be strecthed that far. As to the picture quality it is a .png off of imageshack so quality has surely been lost. If someone can direct me to a site that would allow me to host it fully I would gladly show you what I really see.

 

 

 

As to the elven city... I think I will :P

 

 

 

Tinypic should be good.

[SirTommy2005]

How long does it take for the mouse pointer to traverse from the jad to your prayers tbh.

[Resonae]

It's about as much of an advantage as becoming a member tbh.

 

 

 

Either way it's a bonus from your money coded by Jagex. So not unfair in any way.

[Laura]

How long does it take for the mouse pointer to traverse from the jad to your prayers tbh.

 

That's what I was thinking. It can't always be a good thing. However, I would love to see its true resolution; it looks amazing.

[@Dan3HitU]

*cant wait to hook it up to my tv or the alienware monitor i'm buying*

[yaziyo]

Unless I am mistaken, this is what you did isn't it? (stretched the window as wide and short as possible)

 

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In that case there is absolutely no advantage, you see nothing that noone else does. Look in that view then resize your window to a normal size, you will see exactly the same thing, it will just be stretched. It's an illusion. If anything, it is a disadvantage, rather than an advantage, simply because of how impractical it is.

[Obtaurian]

That looks pretty insane. Makes me wish my laptop could play in HD...

[Kietaro1]

To everyone asking about televisions, you are missing an important element. Just because your television is bigger, you will not necessarily have more viewing area. My screen is so large because of the resolution of both moniters allowing me to strech the screen much larger. On a television or even projector you would not gain any resolution only make things larger. It would essentially be what you see now... much larger. It is only with multiple screens that the possibility to do what I did happens as it allows you to see further over instead of just inlarging the screen.

 

 

 

It does not distort the screen that much until you hit the far edges as it looks almost like it is curling up, sometimes. This happened when I was lighting the beacons for my adze and used it to look at the beacon at God Wars from the Wilderness. Otherwise no streching occurs. For that matter all the creatures and things appear the same way on my screen as anyone elses. When fighting Jad I think that this helped because I was able to strech the screen so that Jad was right above my prayer screen and I could see his whole body being able to watch him better (got my fire cape last night btw ^_^). It also helped that the healers where all visible when fighting Jad as well. Made them a breeze to kill.

 

 

 

When I get home from work I will try tinypic to try and get a high resolution picture of what I see. To use your imagination, take a full screen high definition picture on a regular moniter and triple it. That is what I can see (not that I always do). With my new videocards there is no lag on either moniter as there was with my BFG 6800.

 

 

 

I think that this opportunity gives me an advatage in certain scenarios like one might have experienced in old wilderness when rune mining or otherwise. I can see up to 3 times as much as other players thus giving me an edge in comat situations. This is all because I can afford it and younger gamers cannot or would not waste there money on such things. I was trying to make more of a satirical point entailing the fact that Jagex has stated that selling gold would give an unfair advatage because those that can afford it would buy it and those that cannot would feel slighted. In a like manner I can afford better hardware, a faster internet connection than most (though I am sure that some would be faster), and thus have an advantage over those that can't. It is the same premise as gold trading, how does it differ?

 

 

 

Not that I would buy gold as that is pointless, my point is more of what ground does Jagex think they stand on by trying to make a free game equal? If someone has more free time than me is that fair to me as they get faster levels and potentially better drops? If my hardware is better making me lag less and being able to manipulate combat better, is that fair to my opponent that just had 2 rounds of combat where he was unable to do anything? If I work 45+ hours a week and make x amount of dollars and spend that money on gold, would that be any different than having any of the above advantages?

 

 

 

I am not making a case for RWT nor am I saying it should be allowed. I am just curious on what our community thinks as recent threads about cash shops and what not has had me thinking about the 'thats so unfair' mentality that some of us seem to have.

[Obtaurian]

To everyone asking about televisions, you are missing an important element. Just because your television is bigger, you will not necessarily have more viewing area. My screen is so large because of the resolution of both moniters allowing me to strech the screen much larger. On a television or even projector you would not gain any resolution only make things larger. It would essentially be what you see now... much larger. It is only with multiple screens that the possibility to do what I did happens as it allows you to see further over instead of just inlarging the screen.

 

 

 

It does not distort the screen that much until you hit the far edges as it looks almost like it is curling up, sometimes. This happened when I was lighting the beacons for my adze and used it to look at the beacon at God Wars from the Wilderness. Otherwise no streching occurs. For that matter all the creatures and things appear the same way on my screen as anyone elses. When fighting Jad I think that this helped because I was able to strech the screen so that Jad was right above my prayer screen and I could see his whole body being able to watch him better (got my fire cape last night btw ^_^). It also helped that the healers where all visible when fighting Jad as well. Made them a breeze to kill.

 

 

 

When I get home from work I will try tinypic to try and get a high resolution picture of what I see. To use your imagination, take a full screen high definition picture on a regular moniter and triple it. That is what I can see (not that I always do). With my new videocards there is no lag on either moniter as there was with my BFG 6800.

 

 

 

I think that this opportunity gives me an advatage in certain scenarios like one might have experienced in old wilderness when rune mining or otherwise. I can see up to 3 times as much as other players thus giving me an edge in comat situations. This is all because I can afford it and younger gamers cannot or would not waste there money on such things. I was trying to make more of a satirical point entailing the fact that Jagex has stated that selling gold would give an unfair advatage because those that can afford it would buy it and those that cannot would feel slighted. In a like manner I can afford better hardware, a faster internet connection than most (though I am sure that some would be faster), and thus have an advantage over those that can't. It is the same premise as gold trading, how does it differ?

 

 

 

Not that I would buy gold as that is pointless, my point is more of what ground does Jagex think they stand on by trying to make a free game equal? If someone has more free time than me is that fair to me as they get faster levels and potentially better drops? If my hardware is better making me lag less and being able to manipulate combat better, is that fair to my opponent that just had 2 rounds of combat where he was unable to do anything? If I work 45+ hours a week and make x amount of dollars and spend that money on gold, would that be any different than having any of the above advantages?

 

 

 

I am not making a case for RWT nor am I saying it should be allowed. I am just curious on what our community thinks as recent threads about cash shops and what not has had me thinking about the 'thats so unfair' mentality that some of us seem to have.

 

 

 

I think the big difference is that you're not using any sort of RS equipment that was sold to you for real world currency. You simply have a faster computer with a much larger area of sight. Do you have an advantage? Absolutely. Is it unfair? Not quite. You're spending your earned currency on equipment that provides you with a better connection to the Runescape world. You still have to work for your Runescape items like the rest of us, you're just doing it in style. ;)

[BioIce]

Not all gamers are made equal. Hardcore gamers can play Runescape too. That means hardware that can almost run Crysis.

 

 

 

Just because I play on a semi-decent laptop doesn't mean someone else has the right to cry havoc and demand a free laptop. Unfair? I think the word 'fair' has been abused too much--just like the phrase 'I'll sue you!' People forget that many things are inherently unfair. The question is, how are you going to go around it?

 

 

 

How long does it take for the mouse pointer to traverse from the jad to your prayers tbh.

 

This is when a Wiimote comes in handy. Point and click.

 

 

 

It is easier to resize the window using the client.

[Randox]

I ony noticed the full screen advantage when I world hoped and hd wouldn't load for a while. When I get home I must try this, though one monitor being taller could have interesting results. Yes its an advantage, but not a critial one.

[obfuscator]

http://www.fileave.com/login.aspx?src=/members/getcodes.aspx

 

 

 

this site allowes up to 30 mb per image, although there is like a 100mb cap per month

 

 

 

it would be good for one or two large images though :)

[Aneron]

that is absurdly awesome lol.

 

 

 

I think that although it is amazing cool, it doesn't offer that great of an advantage since you don't really need to have such a wide angle of view... the minimap tells you everything you need to know (in the caves example, it's easy to figure out what dot is what by looking at what you can see)

[Kietaro1]

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[buzz_knight]

That's pretty impressive, i never thought about doing that across my dualscreen.

 

 

 

must try it tomorrow sometime!

[Obtaurian]

That is so cool it's not even funny.

[Wkw]

Disortion is a [bleep] :\ :ohnoes:

[Kietaro1]

I don't really see much distortion.

[Triquos]

Woh that looks awesome. A shame you can't view it like that and have it actual screen size. I still prefer a full screen rather than a squashed one though 8-)

[Kietaro1]

Woh that looks awesome. A shame you can't view it like that and have it actual screen size. I still prefer a full screen rather than a squashed one though 8-)

 

What do you mean? I experience no squashing...

[999134]

that is stupidly insane :shock:

[chenw]

I doubt i can even call it an 'Advantage', because the one problem I have found when I am playing on anything bigger than the old school size was that everything else was further apart. Sure, You might be able to see your pk'er because he sees you, but in other areas, such as fight caves, you could be clicking on a healer that is on the other monitor and then Jad suddenly attacks, you will have to find your cursor once you move over to the other screen and clikc on the prayer, which can lead to jad launching his attack before you can manage all that.

[Nenga]

Every one can use the resizable game window so it is not an unfair advantage. I usually always use the classic box diplay (or 'fixed' but box display sounds better and is more accurate :lol: )

 

 

 

No spell check on this computer so forgive me if I mispell anything.

[Lady_Shahdie]

I like the resizable window for the extended (possibly synthetic) view it gives for activities like Clan Wars, Great Orb Project, transversing the wilderness, etc...its not an unfair advantage if someone paid for a computer that can handle the technology. For example, in The Sims 2 is it an unfair advantage that CPUs with more memory storage can handle 8 party guests while one with less storage can only handle 3? No (well to be honest its harder to entertain 8 party guests and get a "Roof Raiser" in my opinion :lol:). Its just allowing a user to configure RS to their computer's advanced settings. The only drawbacks of the resizable window however is the occasional lag and the unfriendly distance from the inventory to the main screen for skillers.