A question I wanna ask the 2005FPW ownwers

[MobiusPizza]

I am building a PC this summer so I needed a monitor.

I originally intended to buy the 19" 1905FP. The 2005FPW is cheap enough to me and I've seen numerous good feedback. I've read through the posts but there's a question I want to be sure of.

When you play old games with 1280*1024 4:3 resolution using the picture in picture function (EDIT: I meant 1:1 unscaled input signal), how much portion of the screen would that occupy? 17"? Or is it awkard to play?

I'd be buying an X800XL graphic card; it might not handle future games with widescreen support at 1600 resolution (Not fast enough); so I might have to downgrade the setting to 1280 regardless of whether widescreen is supported or not. So because of this, it's important for me to know whether the games are good enough at 4:3 1280*1024

Thanks

 

[Ronin]

When trying to do that with mine, I get black edges on both sides to reflect the new resolution (imagine widescreen on your TV with the borders on the bottom), but it didn't scale.

 

[SynthDude2001]

What do you mean "using the picture in picture function"? You don't have to use that function to use a 1280x1024 input/signal.

There are three scaling options: 1:1 (whch displays the actual pixels in the center of the screen), Fill (which stretches the image to full screen regardless of aspect ratio), and Aspect (which enlarges the image as large as it will go while still maintaining the same aspect ratio).

I hope this helps.

 

[MobiusPizza]

Well sorry I meant the 1:1 scaling

I know there would be black edges. How much portion of the screen would a 1:1 1280x1024 input signal occupy? Would is be too small to affect gameplay experience?

 

[Ronin]

I didn't find it to be, but it still annoyed me. I like full screen goodness.

 

[sundev]

With 1:1 scaling, 1280x1024 works out pretty well. You get black bars along the right and left edge, and thin black bars along the top and bottom.

I usually use that resolution, and it looks great. Using 1280x1024 you can even use the "Fill" option and not really lose any quality, since it is only stretching it a little bit (to fit the 1050 vertical height).