GT4 TV/Game Settings

[AngloAmerican]

Hey Guys

Im playing GT4 on a JVC I'ART 32" Widescreen TV (pretty old skool i know) and im wondering if i have been using the wrong settings on the console. The TV has aspect settings of full, cinema, panorama, and regular, the game uses 16:9 or 4:3 settings via the ingame options menu.

If my TV is on the "full" setting and the console via the "start menu" (before disc inserted) plus the ingame menu is on widescreen, will the picture look distorted??. You see i ask because ive noticed that the start menu settings (before the disc is inserted), also has a "full" setting, yet the ingame settings has no full but widescreen, and 4:3 only.

So im curious if my settings need to be changed bcus ive noticed that my cars seem a little wide and or stretched, compared to some of the pics ive noticed on here, and i wondered if i have had it all wrong. If anyone can fill me in on what settings i should be using i would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance, and i hope everyone and their families has a nice Easter.

AngloAmerican

 

[Greycap]

I have the PS2 set to 16:9, GT4 set to 16:9 and the TV to full. No matter what you do, some screens will look stretched (for example the entire opening movie) but in game everything should be OK. There's a simple test to find out if you have something wrong.

Take a car, no matter which. Drive around a track, no matter which. Drive at the very edge of the track (no matter which side) and go closer to the edge until you feel the wheels leaving the track. Pause the game. Check the position of your screen relative to the track. If the track goes right down to the corner of the screen you have something wrong. If the screen is partly "above the dirt" everything is OK.

It sounds weird and confusing but I hope you'll work it out.

 

[AngloAmerican]

Thanks for the reply Greycap.

I will try the said confusing test and see what comes of it.

Btw Greycap, is there any reason why you dont have the ps2 setting on full as opposed to widescreen?

Edit: Well i tried what you suggested, and assuming i did it correctly the screen seemed to be ok going by the information you gave.

Im just confused because shouldnt the ps2, ingame, and TV settings all match up?.

AngloAmerican

 

[Greycap]

Because to my understanding "Full" is nothing but 4:3 with black borders on top and bottom. I have a 16:9 TV, I want it to put out a 16:9 image, thus I use the 16:9 option. And it looks perfectly good in GT4 so I actually never bothered toying with it more.

 

[AngloAmerican]

Because to my understanding "Full" is nothing but 4:3 with black borders on top and bottom. I have a 16:9 TV, I want it to put out a 16:9 image, thus I use the 16:9 option. And it looks perfectly good in GT4 so I actually never bothered toying with it more.

Thats what confuses me tho.

You said your TV is set to Full.

So if thats set to full does that mean it will use the full screen of the signal coming into it?. Obviously as the ps2 setting is 16:9 it would use all of the screen??.

Sorry if im coming across like a

AngloAmerican

 

[Greycap]

My TV is set to accept the signal and display it as Full, which means that if I fed 4:3 signal into it I'd get a 4:3 image stretched to the 16:9 screen. This is why I want to feed native 16:9 signal into it and minimize the risk of stretching.

 

[AngloAmerican]

So what would happen if i set the ps2 on Full and the TV on full, yet i had the ingame setting on 16:9??.

This whole stuff confuses me........obviously.

Thanks

AngloAmerican

 

[Greycap]

The only piece of advice I can give is, try it. You can't cause any permanent damage. TV's are different in the way they show the signal, what works for me may not work for you and vice versa. If you get stretching, try 16:9 and if you don't, leave it as it is. What I like in the modern technology is the fact that every stupid setting can be reset. Experimenting pays off big time as you have nothing to lose but a lot to win.

 

[AngloAmerican]

Thanks Greycap.

I guess the only other question to ask is what do i judge a "normal" picture against whilst playing GT4?

AngloAmerican

 

[Greycap]

You can see it by bare eyes if something is wrong. If the car has round wheels and doesn't look too low and wide it's probably OK. The difference is easily visible enough, believe me.