¿Grave problema con el parche 1.1?*

IdSoftware ha quitado los links del parche 1.1 debido a un
grave problema con el modo widescreen (es decir, el modo panorámico) que puede causar graves daños al monitor
del usuario. Este fallo se encuentra tanto en los betas como en el oficial, y
solo afecta si activáis el modo widescreen. A continuación el pequeño anuncio
que he podido leer en BlueNews:

Actualización: Según he podido leer solo pasa con algunos monitores y quizás no
sea cosa del parche, pero más vale prevenir:

Please take down your mirror for the Quake 4 1.1 beta and/or final.  There is a problem with the widescreen functionality that may harm a user's monitor.  We are working on a re-release and will make it available as soon as possible.  Please advise your viewers that may be using the current 1.1 beta and/or final to NOT enable widescreen or disable widescreen if they are currently using it.

Update:

It only affects a certain manufacturer’s certain 20” model. And it isn’t even confirmed yet if it has anything to do with the software, it may have just been bad monitors. Activison is just playing it safe until we gather more information from testing.

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First off, afaik the model that is affect isn’t a widescreen monitor (but happens when they attempt use use widescreen mode on it). They didn’t release any information yet on the manufacturer or the model because since little is confirmed yet they don’t want to go blaming the maker of the monitor too quickly or giving a false sense of security to others.

What I am allowed to say at this point is that you should be just fine playing. They suggest not to hit the aspect ratio toggle. So if you’ve already played Q4 1.1 beta or final then you know you’re fine. And if you haven’t played any version of 1.1 yet, then you’re completely safe if you stay away from the aspect ratio toggle.

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The problem doesn’t even occur when you are on that monitor and you force it into widescreen (which it doesn’t support). The problem occurs when you attempt to force it into widescreen, ignore the warning message “Video Mode not Supported” and keep clicking the toggle over and over. As in nearly a hundred times. THEN after all that time, it is causing this one model of monitor to get damaged. In otherwords, they have no clue if it even has to do with the game. It may just be poor manufacturing and rapidly changing modes over and over cause the monitor to fail.