Can a LCD monitor be used with win98se

[kaimeng]

Hi all,

I am going to purchase the Samsung Syncmaster 713N but my Pentium 3 800 MHz system with ATI Radeon 7200 graphics card is running win98se. Any potential problem with that? It has a 8 ms response time and I heard that this is good for games. The max resolution for this monitor is 1280 X 1024. I want my desktop to be this resolution but when I play games, I want a lower resolution of 800x600 or 640 x 480. Will this be possible?

Thanks a lot,
Ng Kai Meng

 

[jiffylube1024]

It will work fine. One thing is that only Windows XP supports ClearType, so you won't have the nice font smoothing that ClearType provides. Otherwise, it should work.

Still, if you're a gamer, you should not be on Windows 98SE anymore. New games much prefer Windows XP.

 

[kaimeng]

Thx for yor speedy reply. Is it possible to play games on 800x600 or 640x480. Will my video performance suffer a hit. I read that text is clear only on the native resolution of 1280x1024, but I am not so sure about games.

 

[Peter]

LCD screens always have a fixed amount of display pixels (quite obviously). Thus, other resolutions will use some form of interpolation, which won't look good. 640x480 on a 1280x1024 display will however be using some form of pixel doubling, which might look bearable - but much more blocky than on a CRT because the LCD won't blur the pixels like a CRT screen does.

Given your setup, my bet is that your games performance is CPU limited anyway, so that a higher resolution won't even harm the frame rate.