Modern PC Games on Vertical Cab

[luizw81]

Anyone know if you can run modern games (MK11, Injustice, etc.) on a vertical cab without stretching the image?  Basically leaving black boarders on top and bottom.  My brother got a vertical off a guy and was thinking of upgrading the pc for modern fighters.


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[meyer980]

LCD or CRT?

Probably depends on the games themselves, but it's easy enough to test if you already have a computer with those games installed. Set one of your monitors to vertical in windows, launch the game, see what happens. If it's a CRT, the resolution might be too low to run modern games though, many of which have a minimum resolution.

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah don't do that.  Not only are modern games horizontal they are 16:9 instead of 4:3.  I mean if you enjoy looking at a postage stamp.  Also a vertical cabinet can comfortably have about 3 buttons 1 player..... you aren't going to cram a panel for modern fighters, which require 8 buttons, in there. 

[zestyphresh]

If you're talking a small vertical panel, then yeah, that might be a bit small. If it's a large vertical monitor (i.e. 42"+ with the ends hidden) then that will work fine, i've done the same.

Some PC games are fussier than others though, i've had some work out of the box with the odd resolution i'm running, whereas others have required one of the 'borderless windows' program to allow it to run windowed full screen (normal full screen doesn't work). Aspect ratio can be tricky though, some work fine out of the box (especially using borderless windows), but as a last resort you can always use Reshade (or one of it's equivalents) which has all sorts of options, including aspect ratio fixes.

[luizw81]

Thanks for the input guys.  I told him before hand that it probably wouldn't be worth the headache but I'd ask around. 

[formula409]

Yeah don't do that.  Not only are modern games horizontal they are 16:9 instead of 4:3.  I mean if you enjoy looking at a postage stamp.  Also a vertical cabinet can comfortably have about 3 buttons 1 player..... you aren't going to cram a panel for modern fighters, which require 8 buttons, in there.

The orientation of a monitor has nothing to do with how many buttons you can have. A 48" flat panel mounted vertically would basically be about the width of a 29" 4:3 CRT, and even with the massive letterboxing (or pillarboxing depending on how you want to look at it), the final image would still be pretty large just because the screen was so big to begin with.

[Howard_Casto]

That's a lot of assumptions you can't make.  When I hear vertical arcade I think of *gasp*  a vertical arcade... aka a 19 inch crt rotated.  The orientation of the monitor absolutely has something to do with the size of a control panel.  Vertical arcade games were mainly in the early 80's.... control panels were quite small then.  19 inch converts into street fighter ii were so cramped they often had to put the start buttons on the front of the panel.  Maybe calm down a little and listen... I generally don't chime in unless I know what I am talking about. 

[formula409]

That's a lot of assumptions you can't make.  When I hear vertical arcade I think of *gasp*  a vertical arcade... aka a 19 inch crt rotated.  The orientation of the monitor absolutely has something to do with the size of a control panel.  Vertical arcade games were mainly in the early 80's.... control panels were quite small then.  19 inch converts into street fighter ii were so cramped they often had to put the start buttons on the front of the panel.  Maybe calm down a little and listen... I generally don't chime in unless I know what I am talking about.

I guess I'm thinking Japanese cabinets, where 27"+ screens for vertical games were common.

[Howard_Casto]

Exactly and what are the odds this guy got ahold of those?  Granted they aren't zero but it is less likely.