Really don't think so, only office-suited (non-gaming!) pc's still come with normal-aspect tft's, mostly 17". 19"+ monitors are almost all wide-aspect.

Only keyboard, no mouse. But PS2 keyboard support will soon be gone too (Dell, anyone ?), and I honestly don't really like that, but that's the way things are ;)

luckily this will all be a none issue since the Free version is 1280x1024 and the Advanced 1280x1024 also:p

25% is a lot, don't forget how many people had normal aspect ratio few years back. Nowadays, if you want a gaming setup 16:9 you should go, the entire industry is pushing it: 720 and 1080 HD resolutions ;)


Normal aspect ratio is supported though, I don't see the point of this discussion?

Vantage also only supports Vista (17% of all users), so how many people on Vista have widescreens, that would be a good question?

counter-owned =P

your 20" won't be able to complete the "High" preset benchmark.

Requiring Vista OS is a lot worse then that afaik, those who got XP will stay XP, those who get new Vista machine probable have widescreen anyway. Yes it should be included non the less, but I don't see the big deal you guys are making since not too many will be 'affected'. Microsoft is much more to blame then FM, don't you think?

There is no "big deal" here I think, it's JOhn who was disappointed in the lack of 4:3, and us showing he shouldn't be :p

What does tha fact that I don't complain about Vista only tell you about how much I care about Vantage?

I would suspect Widescreen was done because at those preset settings, a powerful DX10 GPU would be required. Users running the latest Vista + DX10 high-end GPUs are rather likely to have newer widescreen displays. Furthermore both widescreen settings require 512mb or larger cards.

Me and my 320mb 8800GTS are hosed, even though I use a native 24" 1920x1200 display. :(