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 Posted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 20:21 Post subject: Question about Wide LCDs |
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Hey, I recently got a 20" WideScreen LCD.
I know very little about using LCD's with my PC.
One question Is very important to me; it's about the 'native resolution'.
I have a e6600, 8800GTX, 2gbs of ram, just to get that outta the way.
My basic question is, do I have to play every game in native resolution? the native resolution
is very high and hurts my performance quite a bit, while I've read somewhere that playing outside your native resolution might also hurt your performance and will look terrible.
I'm sure there are some guys here with high-end PC's and LCDs, how do you manage it?
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 20:32 Post subject: |
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get 19" with 1440x900 as native
problem solved
but i wonder which game slows down your perfomance so much with such a monster u got
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 21:08 Post subject: |
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What is your native resolution, 1680x1050?
Hardly a very high resolution nowadays, it shouldn't hurt your performance with your 8800GTX -excepted maybe of crysis- try to decrease the anti-aliasing a bit if needed instead, etc.
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 21:32 Post subject: |
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Crysis is struggling on high even on 1024x768, Witcher defaults at the native (yes, it's 1680x1050) and it's struggling a bit as well.
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 21:56 Post subject: |
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theres quite a bit of games that still don't support widescreen period.
If you use a normal resolution stuff will look smashed or a bit stretched. but still playable. I've got a native of 1440x900 and play everything just fine with an x2 4400 and 7900GS KO with most details on medium/high
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 22:11 Post subject: |
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A fair amount of stuff I need to run @ 1024x768 when my native is 1280x1024 ... it's not really that bad running in a slightly lower resolution imo. Especially in my case where I get a huge performance drop when going up a resolution.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 07:48 Post subject: |
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Wow, Crysis is struggling with your specs? About the same specs as mine and I run at 1920x1200 rez, so you shouldn't have a prob. You don't have Everything cranked to 'Very High' right? I have sound, shadows and textures set to 'High' and everything else V.High and usually am good at around 30fps. This is even running dx10 on Vista.
So yeah, the game shouldn't be sluggish at all at the rez you are trying to run at. What are you getting in like synthetic benchmarks? Run a few things like vista perf index, 3dmark, cpumark, sisoft sandra, ect and check those out. Also ever do a clean install of windows in recent memory? If you have traces of old drivers and junk, it could do wonders.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 18:57 Post subject: |
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I dunno if anyones answered directly LoL - but when you run a non-native resolution the monitor has to interpolate. This causes a blurry display but performance should be no different from bumping down a resolution on a CRT.
That's what blows about LCD's, you gotta push hardware that can manage your native res unless you mind playing in a blur-fest.
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