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Triumphdog34

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But what exactly does increasing resolution do? When my X800XL arrives I would like to know what the hell is the point of running in such a high res.!? Because I want to be able to use a lot of AA and AF. Is it that the textures and lines look smoother while running in a higher res? What is the difference between 1024x768 and 1600x1200? I noticed with my 6600gt that i sent back that I saw a lot of flashing textures along the tree line and on high ladders and such, will running in a high res take care of some of that? Thanks for any help! :D
 
It means there are more pixels on the screen...

so your comp will be able to better simulate curves and textures and such.
 
well, let me jsut say it in a words taht everyone would understand, at higher resolution there are more pixels, which make the image quality go up.
x800xl is great, try to run ur games at least on 1280x1024 res :)
 
forgiven...yeah higher resolution means better looking graphics...which equates to better gameplay and i think u can play 1600x1200 or 1280x1024 with full eye candy on all games
 
fellas thanks for the replies. Should I be able to run BF2 at 1280x1024 with high settings, along with some AA and AF? Is it that the higher resolution that I run, the need for AA and AF go down? I mean if I run at 1280x1024, then is AA and AF still necessary? Also I noticed jaged shadows, and flashing as well, while running BF2, so I just turned them off, anyone else experience that?
 
I run 1280x1024 with all settings maxed except I have medium textures (since I only have 1GB of main memory and the textures hurt memory performance more than the graphics card) and dynamic shadows to medium. Then I turn AA to 4x and AF to 8x.
 
Higher res means it will look better without AA and AF than a lower res without AA and AF. That doesn't eliminate the need though. However, a higher res is generally better than a lower one with 8x AA and 16x AF. Increase your res first, then play with the AA and AF settings.
 
high resolution makes things look smaller, so you are able to have more text and graphics on screen. the higher the resolution the smaller things looks (more pixels, points) and the more important it is to have a faster graphics card, so it can put up with the more and more pixels at the same time, the more pixels the slower things get, but not very much so today, video cards are getting faster and faster. a monitor running at 1600x1200 displays more pixels and things are a bit slower than running at a 1024x768 resolution.
 
one thing the guys above didnt mention is that

you have to make sure what res your monitor supports.

if you wanted to go high res check and see if your monitor refresh rate is at least 75hz
 
Wesley1357 said:
high resolution makes things look smaller, so you are able to have more text and graphics on screen. the higher the resolution the smaller things looks (more pixels, points) and the more important it is to have a faster graphics card, so it can put up with the more and more pixels at the same time, the more pixels the slower things get, but not very much so today, video cards are getting faster and faster. a monitor running at 1600x1200 displays more pixels and things are a bit slower than running at a 1024x768 resolution.
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A higher resolution does not make things look smaller. A very common myth.
 
Skrying said:
A higher resolution does not make things look smaller. A very common myth.
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It depends. A higher res can make things LOOK smaller, they arent any smaller, but they can look smaller. The desktop is a good example of this. Most games tend to 'scale' with the res, so things dont look any smaller.

For example. Lets say you have a 19inch monitor, and your running at 800*600. If you make a box 600*600 pixles big, then its going to take up almost all your screen. Now set the res to 1600*1200. Now the box hasnt got any smaller, its still 600*600 pixels big, but it certainly LOOKS a hell of alot smaller.
 
Triumphdog34 said:
fellas thanks for the replies. Should I be able to run BF2 at 1280x1024 with high settings, along with some AA and AF? Is it that the higher resolution that I run, the need for AA and AF go down? I mean if I run at 1280x1024, then is AA and AF still necessary? Also I noticed jaged shadows, and flashing as well, while running BF2, so I just turned them off, anyone else experience that?
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i jsut ordered a amd64 and a mobo oiff new egg, right now i have athlon xp 3200 with x800xl and i run game on 1280x960 (btw bf2 doesnt have 1280x1024 for some reason) and it works fine,
 
air2k5 said:
i jsut ordered a amd64 and a mobo oiff new egg, right now i have athlon xp 3200 with x800xl and i run game on 1280x960 (btw bf2 doesnt have 1280x1024 for some reason) and it works fine,
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+szx 1280 +szy 1024

Put that that at the end of your BF2's shortcut's target. There you go, 1280x1024. :D
 
But they really need a option in the next windows os or something to scale to resolution cause I use 1152x864 (19'Crt for now, ordered a LCD though) because on normal desktop the words are to small for me to read at 1600x1200 or higher, but yes in most new games they do have options to scale the game words up to a actually easily readable point.
 
Skrying said:
A higher resolution does not make things look smaller. A very common myth.
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When something is a fixed number of pixels across, and you increase the number of pixels on the screen? Yes it does, although indirectly. It's a side effect, not the thing itself, which I believe is what you were getting at. :p
 
DarkBahamut said:
It depends. A higher res can make things LOOK smaller, they arent any smaller, but they can look smaller. The desktop is a good example of this. Most games tend to 'scale' with the res, so things dont look any smaller.

For example. Lets say you have a 19inch monitor, and your running at 800*600. If you make a box 600*600 pixles big, then its going to take up almost all your screen. Now set the res to 1600*1200. Now the box hasnt got any smaller, its still 600*600 pixels big, but it certainly LOOKS a hell of alot smaller.
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ur supposed to use length and width to denote smaller/bigger. so, actually higher resolution DOES make it smaller.
 
increasing resolution only makes the objects look smaller, it isn't actually smaller. the size of the pixel is just smaller, so the object that it is showing evidently looks smaller.
 
as i just said. as in INCHES or CENTIMETERS. They ARE smaller. u just said the pixels are smaller therefore the overall length will be smaller therefore the object is smaller.
 
Just look at your desktop in 800by600 and then at 1280... it just gets smaller. It's empirical and obvious.

~Adam
 
Russ said:
Higher res means it will look better without AA and AF than a lower res without AA and AF.
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actually when you raise your resolution AF becomes even more important since there is more pixels on the screen
 
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