I actually bought 2 copies of the game so that I can play it on my work PC which had a Dell 30" monitor running at 2560x1600 (10:9) and an old 17" CRT running at 1024x768 (4:3). Hell I even remember we did a LAN party there and I would set up a projector (800x600) that we use to make sales presentations and project the second screen on the wall above my monitor for a real battle room and had our girlfriends be like the generals directing the teams based on what they see on the screen. Mostly they were calling out "they are over there!!!!" and point with laser pointers. Strategic Launch Detected indeed.
A 19" LCD monitor goes for $85 new, well within a gamers budget. There are always sales near the holidays, ebay, and garage sales. Get a job, mow some lawns, shovel some snow, save your Christmas/Birthday money. On my current home machine I have 19" LCD (1680x1050) as my secondary monitor and my 2nd 30" running at 2560x1600. The first died 20 days after the one year warranty expired ("Who needs that extended warranty" I said, $1,600 down the drain
, no return possible from Newegg and no one can fix it for less than $1,200; live and learn folks, Stages of Lost). f*** you Gateway and your cow color logo, I am going to make steaks out of you one day. I could have been playing SupCom right now with dual 30"! 
, mother fucking Gateway. (ps. I was not the only one that this happened to, that model was crapping out on almost everyone near the same time.)Having dual screens also increases your productivity by a long shot. I had that 30" monitor setup (minus the 17" screen) on one end of my desk and another workstation that had dual 20" CRT monitors for an older machine that had some specialized software on the other end. I always felt I worked better on the dual 20" (both running at 1600x1200) than the single 30". You just move windows around easier while the 30" it was a just a constant resizing window chore. The dual screen makes it easy to divide your workspace.
As a final note to this rambling, the 4:3 ratio I feel is better for the mini-map. With 10:9, you always need to zoom it out just a bit at the start because the top and bottom get cut off. It also feels small because you have the black bars on the side. While the 4:3 fits perfect right from the start of the game.
Statistics: Posted by The Mak — 23 Feb 2014, 09:03
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