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LCD question, res for games

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Variable1X

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I am a gamer, and am in the process of upgrading my computer, 3200+ venice will arrive tomorrow to complete it. I spent quite a bit on the rest of the computer, and am now thinking about getting a new LCD. Overall, I am pretty happy about the CRT I have, Viewsonic A90f+.

I upgraded my computer with the expectation of getting better looking games and performance, but as I am looking around for LCD's, I see that the resolutions are fixed for the most part. Doesn't trying to play games on a resolution of 1680 x 1050(2005fpw) get difficult?

I don't often upgrade my computer, the one before my new one was a 1.2 GHz Tbird with 512 ram and a Geforce 3. So I am not really thinking about today's games, but later on down the road. Will I have to constantly upgrade my computer to keep it playable?

Or am I thinking all wrong about it and fixed resolutions aren't as much of a downside as I am thinking?
 
Variable1X said:
I upgraded my computer with the expectation of getting better looking games and performance, but as I am looking around for LCD's, I see that the resolutions are fixed for the most part. Doesn't trying to play games on a resolution of 1680 x 1050(2005fpw) get difficult?

Or am I thinking all wrong about it and fixed resolutions aren't as much of a downside as I am thinking?
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My Dell 9100 Inspiron (laptop) runs at a native res of 1680x1050 and I love widescreens now. I had the same concerns you did but I just can't look at a square monitor the same. I'm currently playing Guild Wars at max resolution and it runs extremely well. For other games (like Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory), I sometimes have to drop down to 1280x960 or something since I only have a 256MB Mobility 9800 PRO.

Some older games will look odd and sometimes streched. The only game I've really been bugged by was Sid Meier's:pirates! which absolutely hated the widescreen format.
 
1680x1050 isn't a huge difference from 1600x1200, in fact its slightly smaller, so the performance difference shouldn't be much. One thing I notice with my 2405 is that scaling down to 1680x1050 from native res in some newer games doesn't bother me at all.
 
OMG! For the love of god, don't scale down LCDs!!!! j/k :D Yeah 2405 rocks, and in general, high-res LCDs do scale down fairly nicely, although it's not advisable for text (loses sharpness), but in games u won't notice any difference :D
 
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