Goodbye to quality CRTs

[Helevitia]

Nobody has answered my question about playing games.

If you have a monitor that is native 1280x1024 and yopu play a game at 1024x768, what happens?

A. The screen shrinks to about 75%
B. The screen shrinks to about 75% and then gets upconverted to the native resolution

What happens if you wnat to go to 1600x1200? Does the screen say at 1280x1024 but you now have to scroll? Or does it down convert? Is this possible? How does the image look when up/down converting?

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Helevitia
Nobody has answered my question about playing games.

If you have a monitor that is native 1280x1024 and yopu play a game at 1024x768, what happens?

A. The screen shrinks to about 75%
B. The screen shrinks to about 75% and then gets upconverted to the native resolution

What happens if you wnat to go to 1600x1200? Does the screen say at 1280x1024 but you now have to scroll? Or does it down convert? Is this possible? How does the image look when up/down converting?

B happens, and the expansion looks like crap. Usually though, you can edit the monitor settings through the menu, and you'll get a little bit of letterboxing.

In all cases (except letterboxing 1280x960 on a 1280x1024 screen), it looks like crap.

[Helevitia]

Thanks Wombat...that alone scares me enough to not want an LCD. I definintely need to buy 2 nice monitors before it's too late.

[xortam]

People are running with side bars on WS LCDs but more and more games are apparently supporting WS modes. FarCry is supposed to be quite flexible up to very high resolutions. You always have to run native resolution unless you don't care what it looks like.

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by xortam
People are running with side bars on WS LCDs but more and more games are apparently supporting WS modes. FarCry is supposed to be quite flexible up to very high resolutions. You always have to run native resolution unless you don't care what it looks like.

This is very interesting then. If I were to buy an LCD, my first thought would be, could the video card that will be powering my games run the games in the native resolution at decent speeds?

[xortam]

Originally posted by Helevitia
This is very interesting then. If I were to buy an LCD, my first thought would be, could the video card that will be powering my games run the games in the native resolution at decent speeds?

That's the problem people have been running into with the larger resolutions. I think the X800 PE will do very well with my 23" WS LCD (if they ever start shipping it again). Then I'll get to put it up on the 61" 1080p RPTV by year-end.

P.S. You just need to be sure you have large enough real estate to run native OAR ... otherwise you might have to suffer with the non-native performance of the display or you could scale it before driving the display.

[VJ]

Originally posted by Helevitia
If you have a monitor that is native 1280x1024 and yopu play a game at 1024x768, what happens?

A. The screen shrinks to about 75%
B. The screen shrinks to about 75% and then gets upconverted to the native resolution

Some LCDs let you choose. My dad had two compaqs (back in 1995), which had a setting in their on screen menus. You could choose whether you just scaled the image (looking good, but with borders) or whether to interpolate it (no borders, but looking terrible).

Nowadays, most cheaper displays only do B, but the more expensive ones should still present the choise.


Jörg

[dbdg]

Can't Imagine they are any good for 3D work.

Going to buy two very soon for the second and third head but my primary display will always be a diamondtron.

Helevitia, my mates Cornerstone is fantastic, lovely image.