LCD scaling question...

[AstroCat]

Ok, I've had my 21" CRT Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2060u forever and I am seriously considering the move to LCD for WS gaming. I've been reading a lot about LCDs and scaling but I still have a question or two.

Say I got the BenQ G2400W and I wanted to run a game at 1440x900 to keep the WS ratio but get better FPS because the game is demanding. What is the best way to do this?

Would it be through the Nvidia scaling options? I want the lower resolution but to still fill the screen, so it would not be 1:1. Is this an issue and what problems would this cause?

Thanks for the help!

 

[Sycraft]

If you have an nVidia card then yes, it'll do scaling for you. A lot of monitors also have a scaler.

What you want is "fixed-aspect ratio" scaling. This increases it up to full size, but maintains the correct aspect ratio.

The only downside is that since there isn't an even integer ratio between the pixels in the original and the upsample you can get a "judder" effect. It isn't bad or anything, just isn't perfect.

I generally try to run games at the native 1920x1200. If they don't support widescreen, I run them at 1600x1200 with fixed-aspect scaling, which means there are bars on the sides of the monitor since it isn't widescreen. If they are widescreen, but my system isn't powerful enough to handle it, I go down to like 1280x800 and have it scaled to the full display. Still looks pretty good.