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Are you playing your computer games on a 4:3 display or 16:9 or 16:10 Widescreen display?
Desktop: 4x3 LCD Display at 1280x1024 resolution
Laptop: 16:9 Widescreen at 1680x1050 resolution

If you are playing your computer games on a Widescreen display what resolution are you playing at?
1680x1050 if the option is available, otherwise the resolution closest to it

What benefits to gameplay do you the gamer experience with a Widescreen display versus a standard 4:3 display?
Provides a greater cinematic/more immersive experience in games
 
Are you playing your computer games on a 4:3 display or 16:9 or 16:10 Widescreen display?
16:10 Widescreen display

If you are playing your computer games on a Widescreen display what resolution are you playing at?
1680x1050 for everything.

What benefits to gameplay do you the gamer experience with a Widescreen display versus a standard 4:3 display?
The benefits are that a wide aspect ratio is more natural to the human eyes. We see more to the left and right versus up and down. Now if only game developers did widescreen gaming right and render more to the left and right of the image, instead of stretching or cropping a 4:3 image to fit. Very few do it right.
 
Got a dell 2001 at 4:3 1600x1200
Got a dell 2405 that I use primarily on the xbox 360 at whatever the game will give me.
I have used the 2405 16:10 at 1900x1200 for HL2,Q4, and I forced FEAR to WS in the console settings, man its very cool to see things that I never saw on the 2001. If I can convince my son to let loose of the 2405 when hes off the 360 I think Id use it all the time for my gaming.

I think its the future of gaming, just as it has done so in Television.
 
16:10 2005fpw
1680x1050
We might as well take the advantage of the fact that humans have peripheral vision. With widescreen you just see more, making gameplay much more enjoyable.
 
I play with a Dell 24incher

I game with whatever res works best in the game, from 1280x800, 1440x900 to 1650x1080 and 1920x1200

Thats backed up with a X2 [email protected] and a 7800GTX @515/1360

For example

DOD:S runs great @ 1920x1200, no AA/8AF (constant 60fps)
CS:S (without HDR) does 1920x1200, 2AA/16AF (constant 60fps)

something like FEAR I ran at 1280x800 with 2AA/8AF and got steady 50-60fps.

CIV4 is at 1920x1200, 4AA/16AF :)

EDIT: The benifits? Well, its freakin huge, hence its more immersive. Also, the widescreen nature just "feels right". I mentioned immersive right? Oh and "cinematic" as well.

Basically, its just way way cooler, plus, more to see, you eyes are side by side for a reason.
 
4:3 19" Samsung 12ms LCD ($200 bucks from Staples but it just has standard mini sub D15 instead of DVI :( )
 
4:3 1280x960 on 19" CRT
Not sure if I want widescreen gaming or not

FYI: 1280x1024 is NOT 4:3, its 5:4
 
Are you playing your computer games on a 4:3 display or 16:9 or 16:10 Widescreen display?
19" LCD Display at 1280x1024 4:3

The other 2 questions dont apply to me.
 
4:3 @ 1024x768 17" LCD Monitor. I am planning to upgrade, but when/if I do upgrade it will probably be a 19" LCD 1280x1024, so I’ll be sticking with 4:3. I simply don’t have enough money to invest in a nice widescreen display right now (and a video card that can support such resolutions). Eventually I do hope to go with widescreen HD gaming, but that’s when I have enough money to do what I want with the rest of the entertainment system to integrate everything.

- James
 
16:10 on a dell 2405 fp. Run less intense games at 1920x1200 (civ4) and FPS games like CS:S at 1280x768. Using an x800xl i'm more cpu limited with my 2.0ghz moblie athlon xp than anything else.

civ is GREAT at high resolution - can fit more cities in the screen and scroll less.

CS is also great at wide resolution - wider field of view, more likely to see someone coming from the side.
 
Are you playing your computer games on a 4:3 display or 16:9 or 16:10 Widescreen display?
2x 16:10 Dell 2405FP

If you are playing your computer games on a Widescreen display what resolution are you playing at?
1920x1200 for everything that will have average FPS > 30, 1600x1200 for everything else

What benefits to gameplay do you the gamer experience with a Widescreen display versus a standard 4:3 display?
The more peripheral vision you can take up, the more imersive the experience. Also, games like WoW that are UI heavy can really benefit from the extra screen real estate.
 
Are you playing your computer games on a 4:3 display or 16:9 or 16:10 Widescreen display?

16:10 (2405FPW)

If you are playing your computer games on a Widescreen display what resolution are you playing at?

I prefer 1280x1024 (which is not widescreen obviously) over anything else

What benefits to gameplay do you the gamer experience with a Widescreen display versus a standard 4:3 display?

I'd rather have a 24", non-widescreen, come to think of it. Only thing I use 1920x1200 for is Visual Studio.
 
Two 4:3 monitors here. Dell 1900FP's. Haven't gotten around to upgrading them yet. With a max resolution of 1280x1024, and a refresh rate of 60fps, I am sure I am missing out on something. Right now I can't justify dumping them in favor of new displays, so for now they're here to stay.
 
Playing 16:10 widescreen on my 20" wide dell 2005fpw mostly at 1680x1050 (have also played at 16:9 on my 50" Samsung DLP set, but mainly the Dell). Widescreen feels more immersive and immediate to me.
 
16:10 here, 17 inch NOTEBOOK screen...with a 7800gtx mobile...
 
4:3 19" CRT. Althoug I've been eyeballing the Viewsonic 20" Widescreen LCD's.
 
I game at 1152x648 16:9 widescreen on the 50" LCD TV in my sig.

I like widescreen because it fills your field of vision more than a 4:3 display. Some games like Half Life 2 actually give widescreen users extra map on the screen versus the 4:3 guys. Some games like RTCW and Doom3 dont support 16:9 by default and you have to change config settings but doing so just stretches the image or changes the FOV so that the items in the middle of the screen are proportiionate while to the left and right are stretched.

COD2 natively supports 1152x648 which is nice. Whether it gives me extra map on screen versus the 4:3 guys yet or not I have not tested. FEAR seems to display the whole screen proportionatly like it has widescreen support but you have to change settings in the config file to take non native resolutions.

I use 1152x648 becuase under the Catalyst Control Center for 720P and 1080i support they have the standard resoltions but you usually end up with overscan. They also provide 720P and 1080i "optimized" meaning they change the timings and resolution so that the desktop fits on the screen. They finally have support for custom timings and resolutions but for people like me mean nothing at all because its all over our heads as to what to do. This is the only reason why I use 1152x648 (720P "optimized") despite the fact that it is slightly underscanned.

Nvidia has a nice overscan/underscan screen adjustment utility. You simply adjust two slider bars (vertical and horizontal overscan) until you get the screen to fit just like you want it and Nvidia sets the timings for you.

Previous generations of video cards where a severe pain in the ass for widescreen gaming and both have jumped leaps and bounds to get where they are.
 
pmrdij said:
4:3 17" Acer LCD @ 1280x1024
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*cough* 5:4, NOT 4:3. Do the math :D That's why DVDs and such have a black bar along the top and bottom, if you've noticed. :D
 
when i'm on my XPS gen2 with the 7800GTX go, i'm play in wide screen, it generally floats around with the resolution i'm using, and i like it alot better

since i'm letting my computerless friend borrow it, i'm on a 19" LCD screen, fixed to 1280x1024, its not horrible to me but having the widescreen makes the game have a more "you are at the movies" feeling then standard 4:3 in games, especially single player
 
I do 4:3 on one of those awesome Dell 20.5 inch flat screens! 1600X1200 of course, even if I have to turn down some other graphic settings.
 
4:3 on a 19" LCD. Widescreen is not for me at the moment due to the uncommon resolutions.
 
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