High Resolution?

[Cygnus X1]

I play online shooters, CSS, BF2, UT2K4, I have tried higher resolutions and it will work but why try it if I seems to get more kills and looks just as good.
I have a Dell crt 19in M991, and recomended is 10x7 but I find if say on CSS I play at 600x800 and turned up all to max reflect all, 4X aa, 16X af, it looks great!

Maybe I need a new monitor to truely show 1600x1200, because If I use that I can't read anything on the screen. Do native 1600x1200 show the letters normal, readable size without having to tweak every font and dpi?

In short I can either play at 800x600 or 1078x800 with all max or take the eye candy off and play at uber high resolution. What is the point in that? I have ready that most fps shooters play the 800x600 just for more kills, are these uber high resolutions really necessary?

Maybe I need a new monitor, than I'll shut up. I really do like to be able to read web pages at 800x600 is best 1078x800 is good to, but anything higher is nuts.

 

[pkme2]

My monitors can give me higher resolutions but 1078x800 is comfortable to read and work too. My eyes can't handle the finer print at 1200x or higher. I'll handle the 1078x anytime.

 

[BFG10K]

800x600 is butt ugly.

 

[moonboy403]

depends on what monitor you have and what type

 

[gtx4u]

try to run 800x600 16xAA on a 24 inch moniter and compare it to 1800x1350 on 2x AA. Smaller moniters are harder to see the difference.

 

[gtx4u]

Originally posted by: Cygnus X1
I play online shooters, CSS, BF2, UT2K4, I have tried higher resolutions and it will work but why try it if I seems to get more kills and looks just as good.
I have a Dell crt 19in M991, and recomended is 10x7 but I find if say on CSS I play at 600x800 and turned up all to max reflect all, 4X aa, 16X af, it looks great!

Maybe I need a new monitor to truely show 1600x1200, because If I use that I can't read anything on the screen. Do native 1600x1200 show the letters normal, readable size without having to tweak every font and dpi?

In short I can either play at 800x600 or 1078x800 with all max or take the eye candy off and play at uber high resolution. What is the point in that? I have ready that most fps shooters play the 800x600 just for more kills, are these uber high resolutions really necessary?

Maybe I need a new monitor, than I'll shut up. I really do like to be able to read web pages at 800x600 is best 1078x800 is good to, but anything higher is nuts.

What are u a little girl? Not even 1600x1200 is enough for me cause AA SAMPLES are never as good as real pixels which contains detailed textures.

2d images and games are bigger at a lower resolution or smaller at higher resolution, that's why you see them bigger DUH, 3d realms are much different the higher the resolution the less ammount of jaggies u'll get.

 

[Sentry2]

800x600......... at least he didn't say 640x480

 

[bdoople]

1078x800? What's that?

I play most of my games at 1024x768.

 

[Sentry2]

Originally posted by: bdoople
1078x800? What's that?

I play most of my games at 1024x768.

lol...I was wondering the same thing

 

[anandtechrocks]

Just like Bdoople, I too play at 1024x768. I don't really care about AA and AF, I just want very high FPS that never drop below 40.

 

[WolverineX]

For basic desktop use and apps I run 1280 by 960 which seems to be the best setting for my monitor. Text/pages are small enough to have much more on the screen at one time without blur. For gaming, it's really what I can run at the time until my next card purchase.

I have a Samsung 997df and it hasn't failed me yet...

 

[Malladine]

I like higher res to be able to see more, basically. Especially in slower games.

FPS wise, 1024 usually does the trick just fine. But aren't your enemies sharper and easier to pick off at a higher res, if you have the hardware to keep the fps high?

 

[pulsedrive]

Hell, I run all my apps at 1680 x 1050. It all looks gorgeous on a 20" widescreen. So I don't know why you would have a problem with 1600 x 1200 on a 19" CRT.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Resolution means everything to me in games, most especially FPS's. I compensate however much I have to in order to get a good framerate at 1280x1024, the native resolution of my panel. I know I may miss out on some special effects and lighting\shadow detail.. but who cares, the only time I would step the res down some would be for multiplayer FPS games with a lot of people playing.

 

[VIAN]

High resolution allows for more detailed graphics. 19" monitors should allow you to go up to 1280x1024, unless maybe it's an old monitor. Otherwise, 1024x768, wouldn't have been recommended, usually its 1280x1024.

Why is high resolution good? Because 1280x1024 with looks better than 800x600 with 4xAA. That's why.

 

[kylebisme]

One of the most obvious examples of where higher resolution helps is with stuff like power-lines and such in games that that at low res and at a distance often wind up being less thick than a single pixel, and hence they wind up flickering in and out of existance as you move though the scene. That is an extreme example, but all fine detail does this to some extent or another as long as the rendering resolution isn't high enough to alow pixels for all the details.

 

[VIAN]

And, I forgot to add, a lower resolution makes killing opponents more difficult if you snipe and/or aim for heads, with or without sniping. High resolution also makes things easier to distinguish, so you may have faster reaction time. Also makes it easier to spot snipers and people who hide, but leave their foot sticking out.

 

[archcommus]

I have a 19" LCD with a native res of 1280x1024 so I just run all my games at that. Looks great, especially with some good AA. Because I never exceed that res I see ultra-high end video cards as completely unnecessary to me. For example my X800 XL runs Q4 no problem at my LCD's native res with max everything.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

the higher the resolution objects that are far away will be clearer.

high res > aa all day long.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: archcommus
I have a 19" LCD with a native res of 1280x1024 so I just run all my games at that. Looks great, especially with some good AA. Because I never exceed that res I see ultra-high end video cards as completely unnecessary to me. For example my X800 XL runs Q4 no problem at my LCD's native res with max everything.

Wow, as a X800XL owner I have to call shens on that. To get nice, sustainable framerates in Q4 at 1280x1024 I really need to sacrafice quality. Medium settings all around, no AA, no AF. Please tell me your 3dMark05 score and how OC'd your card is.

 

[SunnyD]

1280x960 ftw. That's assuming I don't have the horsepower to run it at 1600x1200. I got tired of seeing squished things in 5:4 aspect ratio. The font in WoW looks like at 1280x1024, but then my dwarf looks about as tall as a gnome.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: archcommus
I have a 19" LCD with a native res of 1280x1024 so I just run all my games at that. Looks great, especially with some good AA. Because I never exceed that res I see ultra-high end video cards as completely unnecessary to me. For example my X800 XL runs Q4 no problem at my LCD's native res with max everything.

Wow, as a X800XL owner I have to call shens on that. To get nice, sustainable framerates in Q4 at 1280x1024 I really need to sacrafice quality. Medium settings all around, no AA, no AF. Please tell me your 3dMark05 score and how OC'd your card is.

I'm sure the difference is in what we each consider acceptable. I don't measure framerates because I think that's pointless. I set my settings, and then play, and if I don't like how it feels, I turn things down. I haven't had any hiccups or slow scenes yet, even when outside during firefights.

 

[CP5670]

I use 1280x960 in Windows since that makes the text size optimal for me (about the same size as printed text), but frequently play games in higher resolutions (not many recent ones though). I very rarely enable any AA since increasing the resolution instead looks better. I actually use 800x600 in one game though, FEAR. It's the only way to always keep the minimum framerate above 60 on my current card.

 

[Cygnus X1]

My Dell 19in M991 CRT will do 1600x 1200 at 72refresh rate. But I can never equal out the fonts readability. Any help would be appreciated with size tweaks. Size does matter you seem to say. I like to game at the same resolution as my desktop is set. Is that lame to think that way?

 

[CP5670]

You could say that. One of the big advantages of a CRT in my opinion is that you can have the Windows resolution lower than your maximum resolution for games. Unfortunately, I have to live with a headache inducing 1400x1050 on my 14.1" laptop LCD.

My monitor has LCD-like sharpness at 1600x1200 and still looks very good at 2048x1536, but the text size becomes too small at either resolution (the viewable area is 20"). You can increase the font size or the dpi, but that only affects some of the text and can cause things to get misaligned. The dpi setting also had a weird effect on IE and Firefox on my laptop, causing all the graphics to get pixellated for some reason.