what resoultion do you run your games at ?

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Kyanzes

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1600x1200x85Hz (P260 CRT)

Tried a few LCD monitors, and decided to wait a few years until they either get better or some other superior technology surpasses them.
 

imported_ST

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1920 x 1080

No offense, but I see many people running the later 7800 GT/GTX cards at <1600x1200. Should get a new monitor and REALLY take advantage of it.
 

jotosuds

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1280X960/1024 for everything except

1024x768 for BF2 and fear demo

and 800x600 for COD2 demo cuz it crashes my system when i try to run 1024... puzzling for sure.
 

Kogan

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1280x1024 60hz (lcd monitors)
with a geforce 6800, 4xaa, 8xaf high quality in all games
with a geforce 4 ti4200 no aa/af, medium quality settings in new games (I don't mind 30fps)

Not sure why everyone thinks they need a $300+ video card to play new games.. Nvidia must be good at marketing. And well, ATI is just good at having high prices :)
 

thecoolnessrune

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800x600, no AA, no AF, all low settings, 17fps on my craptastic GeForce 4 MX 420 on a 19" Flat CRT. These things are rated even lower than a Ge Force 2 gts. crap. I would do 640x480 but my monitor's resolution seems to be help to 800x600 (640x480 blows up the pixels and makes the screen and text unreadable)
 

tuteja1986

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Originally posted by: Aznguy1872
I run all my games at 1280x1024 @ 85Hz.

same but my computer can do 1600x1200+ easy :) and i do have a monitor that can handle high res but i find it hard to play FPS on higher res than 1600x1200. target become to small from long distance ;( . BF2
 

blckgrffn

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I forgot to mention, old games at 2048*1536 @ 75hz :D Did I mention the 4xAA and 8xAF! You should so those older UT2k3 engined games run like that! Beautiful and smooth!

Nat
 

CP5670

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I wish I could use that resolution comfortably in more games. Out of the stuff I have, it only works smoothly in Unreal, UT, Deus Ex, Freespace 2 and MDK2 (all are at least five years old), and AA is out of the question.

*needs to get a 7800 card*
 

gsellis

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I usually run 1024x768 on a high-end CRT. My standard resolution is 1152x864 to work best with my editor.

Edit @ 85Hz
 

Tanclearas

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1280 x 1024/960 @ 60Hz (LCD) w/4x Tr SSAA and HQ forced, and crank up whatever in-game options there are.

Not sure why people think the 7800GTX is only for 1600 and up. With the above settings, I get great frame rates, but it can still dip into the 30's now and then in a couple of games. As powerful as the 7800GTX is, upcoming games will probably be best run at 1280 x 1024/960 anyway.