Superior Solution To Improve Vertical And Horizontal FOV Depending On Aspect Ratio

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Actually I am unsure what the cause for your thoughts regarding this topic is.
What is the actual problem that you try to solve?
From what I gather it has to do with field-of-view being somehow inconsistent between resolutions, but what is the actual harm done by that?

I’m asking because:

a) You present lots of technical talk that most people might not even bother to read, yet you do not present the basic problem that lead you to write your post.
Putting that clearly might give readers a better understanding of what this thread is about.

b) I recently switched from a more than a decade old CRT monitor to a new widescreen monitor, going from 1600x1200 pixels to 1920x1080.
It was almost a shock, updating my monitor setup after so many years.
And still the FOV issue you refer to did not present itself to me.
Probably I have witnessed it - I just didn’t notice it because I didn’t see or feel the issue.

More info here : http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51195

16:10 and 4:3 get penalized with less horizontal FOV, without gaining more vertical FOV.
Even 16:9 compared to 21:9.

The current HOR+ method penalizes less wide monitors without giving more vertical FOV to them as it should.

The developers will understand and they will bother reading.

See the link i posted above with images.

If you were to move from 1080p to 1200p you would end up with less horizontal FOV but NO extra vertical FOV, despite the fact that 16:10 is TALLER and should gain extra vertical FOV and lose horizontal FOV.