Andrej Mitrovic Wrote:

> Don't forget having to minimize all the time
> to chat to someone on MSN while playing a game. So there are some
> benefits to having a browser based interface for a game, imo.

Older games work even better in windowed mode because they expect the screen with 4:3 aspect ratio.

On 8/5/11, Kagamin <spam@here.lot> wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic Wrote:
>
>> Don't forget having to minimize all the time
>> to chat to someone on MSN while playing a game. So there are some
>> benefits to having a browser based interface for a game, imo.
>
> Older games work even better in windowed mode because they expect the screen with 4:3 aspect ratio.
>

There's a cool setting in at least nvidia's control panel that allows you to play a game fullscreen but in letterbox mode, so you get two vertical bar stripes on each side to simulate 4x3 mode. Pretty cool for playing old games.