Monitor buying advice needed

[kineas]

The problem is not (only) the distortion, but that LCD monitors can only display sharp image in one resolution (called the native resolution). If you display CM's 1024*768 pixel on an 1280x800 pixel LCD the resulting image will be very blurry, unusable.

I play it on an 1280x800 laptop LCD, and I have black bars at both sides of the screen, playing it essentially in 1024x768, so I have sharp images by wasting screen area.

Since CM will refuse to start in widescreen mode, make sure your video card driver can produce sharp pictures in a resolution what CM knows too.

I think the best is if you ask for model types/numbers from players who own a modern LCD monitor and play CM on it without problems.