Widescreen and 5.1 Audio problem :(

[thefunkygibbon]

Lo all,

I installed HL2 on my HTPC last nite so i could hopefully play it on my 28" widescreen telly and 5.1 amp and speaker setup.

but

when i start the game i only have the option for 16:10 not 16:9 and full screen on 16:10 causes a nasty screen overlap and flicker at the bottom of the screen. how could/should i be able to choose 16:9?

also setting audio to 5.1 it doesnt seem to output any signal to my 5.1 amp through coax which windows seems to without problem... i presume this is just becase hl2 doesnt have proper digital audio out support. if i choose 2 channel i get audio but obviously isnt perfect for me.


any ideas? widescreen is the biggest issue really

 

[X2Cube]

try checking your manual for what size your tv supports

add this to your command line options for hl2: -w WIDTH -h HEIGHT

replace WITH, and HEIGHT with the resolution you want

 

[Big G]

also setting audio to 5.1 it doesnt seem to output any signal to my 5.1 amp through coax which windows seems to without problem... i presume this is just becase hl2 doesnt have proper digital audio out support. if i choose 2 channel i get audio but obviously isnt perfect for me.

You need a soundcard capable of dolby digital hardware encoding if you're connecting it via coax such as nVidia's nforce2 (like me!).

It sounds awesome.