Vista - New gaming monitor

If you've been gaming for twenty years you shouldnt need to ask these questions lol

Try to be helpfull and all i get is abuse but anyway it does look worse when lowering the resolution but then someone on a 1920x1200 resolution would see 1680x1050 as looking worse. Its all perspective.

Id rather lower the res of a game and bump up the texture, shaders etc to max rather than the other way round.

yes but never gamed on LCD , they didnt exist when i bought my ZX81

i realise the higher the res the better the overall effect in game

my worry was , because ive never had an lcd , that the effect of lowering the resolution below the native resolution of the monitor would have an overall effect on the image , not because of the effect it would have on the textures but because of the effect i was worried it would have on the image the monitor was reproducing , because i was lower than its "native" resolution

anyhoo it wasnt abuse , just a little friendly banter Im gratefull for all the help

Archie, I don't know what kind of games you like to play, my Genre is FPS (First Person Shooters) and I gotta tell you, the Majority of today games are so poorly coded or ported from consoles to pc that the eye candy effect is hardly noticeable from 1680 x 1050 to 1024 x 768. Hell, some of them don't even support widescreen *cough* most UBIsoft games *cough*


Read my post whining post above

For instance, Crysis was supposed to be the end of all FPS games as we know it and it tanked because it was a bloaded game, after a few patches, the game became playable and this was a game that was made specifically for PCs and by Crytek. Warhead was much easier on resources and it did not have the heavy requiremnts of crysis.

Modern Warfare is a very nice game and it plays well on most PC's.

I usually let the game dictate the optimal settings for me, unless I know who made it and I don't loose Frames per second because of more eye candy.

At any rate, if you have a decent CPU, RAM and Video Card, you will notice the eye candy difference

FPS all the way mate , MOH series COD series , Red Orchestra (fantastic btw) Darkest hour BF2 , even counter strike source (when i was much younger and faster ) stalker , stalker clear sky our gaming community even has a left 4 dead server!!

Ive played a few console ports , rainbow six vegas , ghost recon advanced warfighter , i stay away from em generally but ghost recon was good gave it another go when nvidia started up with PHYSx just to see how it looked.

plying COD WAW at the moment loving getting back to WW2 but nothing will ever beat the original COD for me

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Yup my first console had one button on the joystick, cough atari cough lol

You will notice a slight decrease in picture quality but as AstaLaVista says if its a FPS shooter it isnt hugely noticeable. Games like Empire:Total War on the other hand look horrible on a reduced res due to the amount of text in the game.