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Dome

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i was wondering, i keep hearing people running games at 1280x960, but i thought that 1280x1024 was the resolution that didn't have distortion on it...cuz that's what i run my desktop at

are there differences in game resolution vs desktop resolution?
 
Originally posted by Dome
i was wondering, i keep hearing people running games at 1280x960, but i thought that 1280x1024 was the resolution that didn't have distortion on it...cuz that's what i run my desktop at

are there differences in game resolution vs desktop resolution?
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Um, widescreen mode? I'm not really sure. This is the first I've heard of it myself. That would be one wide screen, though. Unless they're doing a multi monitor setup.
 
As I understand it, the two resolutions can be indistinguishable on CRTs because the pixels don't have to be fixed aspect ratios themselves. Thus, one could have rectangular pixels at 1280 x 1024 and it would look almost identical to a 1280 x 960 resolution with square pixels.
 
Originally posted by xonik
As I understand it, the two resolutions can be indistinguishable on CRTs because the pixels don't have to be fixed aspect ratios themselves. Thus, one could have rectangular pixels at 1280 x 1024 and it would look almost identical to a 1280 x 960 resolution with square pixels.
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Interesting. I wonder if that would work on an LCD (although, I doubt it will).

I'd hook my main box up to my CRT, but it really sucks doing multi monitor with an LCD and a CRT. The CRT will be locked at 60fps, which blows. Or the LCD will run at a higher refresh rate, unless it's on DVI (as mine is). My second box has a MX200 so it's definatly not getting up that high. :p

I can see how that works, though.
 
I always thought it was really stupid that games (XIII and BF1942) go to a resolution of 1280 x 960. WTF is that? My 1800FP has a native resolution of 1280 x 1024. It looked fine on my screen, so I left it that way for a while....but I ended up dropping it to 1024 x 768 and turning on a bunch of AA features. The 1800 FPs can rescale the screen size pretty well....much better than other LCDs I have seen.
 
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