Square pixels?

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Charley:
there is an option in sims graphics to use square pixels. does this make the graphics better or worse?

Char
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jase439:
This option is for users that have widescreen LCD monitors that have a 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio.  On these monitors, the display can appear stretched and distorted.  Square pixels corrects for the difference in aspect ratio to draw the screen in a way that makes everything look proportioned.

Have a look at the image in this post (rendered at 16:10 w/o square pixels...I took this the day after getting my new 20" LCD widescreen):

http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=384769&postcount=6

...and compare it to the one at the top of the screen (rendered at 4:3).  Notice the facial proportions are noticeably different.  Had I turned on square pixels, the images would have been proportioned the same.

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