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Hi, I’m a low medic, if you’d care to know.

I’m having a lot of trouble maxing out my field of view, I’ve looked at ubercharge’s guide for it, but i didn’t understand some parts of it.

My fov settings right now:
fov desired 90
viewmodel_fov 70

but when i see other peoples fov they are way whider than mine, what am i missing out here?

Did you enter fov_desired 90, or fov desired 90?

Skyride, it’s not a glitch. It’s almost the same in every FPS. It would look really bad on widescreens if the developers would not have done that.

Nah, you can’t set your actual FoV higher than 90 in TF2 unless sv_cheats are on. viewmodel_fov can go to pretty much anything you want but thats entirely opinion and really makes no difference.

However, there is a glitch due to how the source graphics engine works that means if you have a widescreen monitor, or run your game windowed at a widescreen resolution, then it will give you an effectively higher FoV (equiv to 103 off the top of my head if you have a 16:10 monitor).

So nah, your not missing out on anything. :)

Well you can mess about with custom resolution (thinner but longer) in windowed mode, but it looks like ass

–edit

Not even good ass

What makes you say its a glitch? Looks pretty intentional to me.

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Because anything that does what you -might- not expect it to do is always a glitch ;)

Alternatively, you can download a patch from here, here or here.

i think you lost me there.

Thanks for the help everyone, very good information, i think ill check these custom resulutions out. ^^