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22" Widewcreen Resolutions

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mt_100

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For anyone out there that has a 22" widescreen. When you game and have to lower your resolution from the native 1680x1050 what do you go down to?

I was thinking about getting one and my HD3850 card may not be able to drive it well for gaming at that resolution so I wondered what other choices there would be.

Also, if I go down to 1280x1024 does it stretch the image to fit the screen or does it just not use the full screen?

Odd that I have to ask but just don't know the answers. Thank you.
 
my card lets me choose whether I want it to scale the screen or give a fixed, centered output.

When I had my 22, I went down to 1440x900 if my card couldn't handle it instead of 1680x1050.
 
if i need to go down, i go to 1440x900

to answer the other question, 1280x1024 is a standard screen resolution, so it will stretch it.
 
widescreen 16:10 standard for 1200 resolution should be 1280x800 or 1280x768.
 
I use 1280x768 for gaming on my 22"

the card upscales it to fit the full width/height of the monitor. Looks fine. Running at native is obviously sharper but the difference isn't that big.
 
I actually don't like the pixelated sharpness of my hp w2207's native resolution and prefer to run it at 1280x800 for everything! I have the monitor performing the scaling, and it looks as good and clear as my old LaCie 19" (Electron 19blue IV) when it was new... actually, it looks better ! Also, everything is to scale with what I was used to, running 19" CRT's for over a decade before purchasing this, which is nice and comforting.
 
1280x768. I agree with BC101 about the pixelated look at higher rez. 1280x768 (nvidia does not support 1280x800) with 4xAA and 16xAF looks much smoother and natural. 1680x1050 does look sharp as hell, but at the same time it looks almost 'too' clear almost fake. Movies on the other hand look best at the native rez.
 
mt_100 said:
I was thinking about getting one and my HD3850 card may not be able to drive it well for gaming at that resolution so I wondered what other choices there would be.
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We have a comp in the house with a 3850 that plays WoW at 1680x1050 at about 40 FPS avg....with graphic details at about half.

So you may be able to depending on the game and the desired eye candy.
 
rodman said:
1280x768. I agree with BC101 about the pixelated look at higher rez. 1280x768 (nvidia does not support 1280x800) with 4xAA and 16xAF looks much smoother and natural.
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Glad I'm not the only one that thinks so!
And about nVidia and 1280x800... when I got my 8800GT I noticed that. So I took a look around and found out that you can use Rivatuner to basically force your card to accept a new setting - in my case, 1280x800 @ 60Hz. Now, that is a selectable option within the nVidia control panel.
 
westrock2000 said:
We have a comp in the house with a 3850 that plays WoW at 1680x1050 at about 40 FPS avg....with graphic details at about half.

So you may be able to depending on the game and the desired eye candy.
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I would think you'd get more than just 40 FPS...on max, with high AA as well. :p
 
BC101 said:
Glad I'm not the only one that thinks so!
And about nVidia and 1280x800... when I got my 8800GT I noticed that. So I took a look around and found out that you can use Rivatuner to basically force your card to accept a new setting - in my case, 1280x800 @ 60Hz. Now, that is a selectable option within the nVidia control panel.
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Why do you think the option for that rez is gone? Makes no sense when you consider 1280x800 is a 'true' 16:10 ratio:rolleyes:

I can't use rivatuner with Vista becouse I can't stand UAC telling me it's blocking a program trying to start. Even if I install Riva and do not select it to run at startup UAC STILL blocks it as it trys to do whatever it does behind the sceens. I will not disable UAC just to use Rivatuner as I flash all my cards bios with overclocks anyway. I will say though, Riva is the best utility for overclocking since it supports shader overclock, something one needs to check before a flash. But I still have to uninstall the program after I'm done testing.
 
rodman said:
Why do you think the option for that rez is gone? Makes no sense when you consider 1280x800 is a 'true' 16:10 ratio:rolleyes:.
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I know! It made absolutely no sense to me. I have no idea why nVidia decided to do that...
 
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