Gaming on a 19" widescreen LCD

[tigersty1e]

I'm thinking of picking up a 19" widescreen LCD.

I currently have a 17" dell LCD.


How is the gaming on a 19" widescreen?

And if I have to change it to a 4:3 aspect ratio, how is gaming?

 

[kuyaglen]

IMO a 19" widescreen is not an improvement over a 17" 5:4 screen

You'll have more instances of game resolutions not supporting 1440x900 than 1280x1024. Go with at least a 20" widescreen or larger for a noticably larger panel to look at and you'll be glad you did.

 

[coolpurplefan]

How much is too much right in your face? I mean, you're sitting at a desk, you wouldn't want 37 inches. Between 21 and 24 inches, what is the happy medium?

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: coolpurplefan
How much is too much right in your face? I mean, you're sitting at a desk, you wouldn't want 37 inches. Between 21 and 24 inches, what is the happy medium?

I say 22"
24" is too expensive
21 and 22 are small-ish and more expensive than 22.

<-- 22" owner

 

[coolpurplefan]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: coolpurplefan
How much is too much right in your face? I mean, you're sitting at a desk, you wouldn't want 37 inches. Between 21 and 24 inches, what is the happy medium?</end quote></div>

I say 22"
24" is too expensive
21 and 22 are small-ish and more expensive than 22.

<-- 22" owner

Well, I mean if prices keep falling, which one would you choose? I'm just curious what people think is a nice size from a normal viewing distance.

 

[gorobei]

i'm currently gaming on a 19"ws lcd. BF2 and farcry. at 1440:900 the res is ok for most FPS, things look pretty enough but the pixels are a little big if you look close. Anti aliasing doesn't do all that much to improve it without taking a hit in framerates for the max settings.

I'm thinking of going to a 22" to get the higher resolutions for really long range sniping.

the real problem is that some games don't support widescreen the way they should. and unless the lcd has a special features in the OSD controls to adjust for filling the screen, it will just stretch the image which makes the game just annoying.

 

[MegaVovaN]

If money were no object, screen size depends on the distance you sit from the monitor...I can't help you with that.I sit my stretched arm away from 22" and it's good.