LCD Monitors and Native Resolution?

[eVaoVe]

Dell has a sale on LCD Monitors so I'm going to buy a Samsung 710T. It's native resolution is at 1280x1024, and thats cool, but I'm a gamer, and as you guys kno Video Cards can't play the latest at a high resolution forever. So my question is does Image Quality degrade substantially if I change the resolution in a game?

 

[Mik3y]

no it doesnt.

 

[eVaoVe]

Can you be a little more descriptive please. No it doesn't degrade Image Quality at all, no it doesnt degrade image quality substantially etc.

 

[dc5]

my lcd's native res is 1280x1024. sometimes i may have to put it down to 1024x768 when playing some high graphical games. the difference is not that noticable, but if you play it on 800x600 the image gets way more blurry. i'm basing this on my lcd though, every lcd may handle non native res differently. bottom line, it's not that noticable on 1024x768, anything lower will get blurry.

edit: since you're a gamer, you should stick with CRT

 

[Bateluer]

Going from 1280x1024 to 1024x768 will not much very noticeable, I've done it on my 17" LCD before. Going from 1280x1024 native to 640x480 or 800x600 will seriously degrade it though. I cannot play any of the infinity engine games on my desktop because the text because too blurry read.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: eVaoVe
Dell has a sale on LCD Monitors so I'm going to buy a Samsung 710T. It's native resolution is at 1280x1024, and thats cool, but I'm a gamer, and as you guys kno Video Cards can't play the latest at a high resolution forever. So my question is does Image Quality degrade substantially if I change the resolution in a game?

Many people say so. Link

 

[eVaoVe]

If you raise the resolution to 1600x1200 on a LCD thats native to 1280x1024 is it still going to be the same story?

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: eVaoVe
If you raise the resolution to 1600x1200 on a LCD thats native to 1280x1024 is it still going to be the same story?

It will do it, but it will TOTALLY SUCK!!! Native generally mean max resolution. It means the number of pixels the LCD actually has in it, I believe this correct, dont quote me on it though.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: eVaoVe
If you raise the resolution to 1600x1200 on a LCD thats native to 1280x1024 is it still going to be the same story?

a 1280x1024 screen can't display 1600x1200.