Resolution settings question.

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keithallenlaw

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I read its actually better to choose a lower resolution and more eye
candy than to run high rez with none at all. Any testers?

My question is this.

Do I lower my in game rez, the cards rez, or both? Lowering my cards
rez is a pain in the butt, plus it always messes up my desktop icons.
At times I think this 30'' Dell 2650x1600 is just too much and to
demanding. Its not real great a DVD movies either. Time for
Blue Ray???

Just trying to get some better frame rates. I'm averaging 43fps with
Crysis Warhead with low shaders and textures at 2650x1600.
My card is all default @ 2650x1600. My 3D Mark Vantage scores
are very low compared to the "heavy hitters" with slower equipment
than mine. Go figure...

My profile specs. are very current.

Thanks! -keith
 
First off, lowering the resolution in game shouldnt have any effect on your desktop icons.

To your main question, its entirely up to you. Nobody on these boards can tell you what looks good to you, but I've got a couple recomendations

The RV770 core (you have two on your HD4870X2) equipped with GDDR5 has proven itself to be faster than the GT200 when the AA is turned up. So AA is an effect that will have a relatively small impact on your performance. Another thing is to keep the resolution to your monitors own ratio. If you do want to turn down the resolution, changing it to something like 1600X1200 will cause skewing where as 1680X1050 wont, so keep it to 16:10 resolutions. Better yet, if you can find a resolution that is an exact multiple of your resolution (1325X800 for example), then things should still look very good.
 
you can add custom resolutions (at least in nvidia's cp) so you could actually enter in a resolution like that. personally i don't really care that much if it isn't a multiple, i have tons of intermediate resolutions.

Generaly I like evevrything turned up, then finding a resolution that it can run fine on. However I can not do less than 720 p, so there may be compromises. Then I find out if it is CPU or GPU shader or pixel fill or memory or GPU memory etc related and turn those settings down.
 
MrWizard6600 said:
First off, lowering the resolution in game shouldnt have any effect on your desktop icons.

To your main question, its entirely up to you. Nobody on these boards can tell you what looks good to you, but I've got a couple recomendations

The RV770 core (you have two on your HD4870X2) equipped with GDDR5 has proven itself to be faster than the GT200 when the AA is turned up. So AA is an effect that will have a relatively small impact on your performance. Another thing is to keep the resolution to your monitors own ratio. If you do want to turn down the resolution, changing it to something like 1600X1200 will cause skewing where as 1680X1050 wont, so keep it to 16:10 resolutions. Better yet, if you can find a resolution that is an exact multiple of your resolution (1325X800 for example), then things should still look very good.
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I understand keeping the ratio the same. I would still like to know if I have to
match the game rez and the cards rez. Thank you very much! -keith
 
Simple answer is no. You can set the game's resolution to whatever you want without affecting Window's res. :)

EDIT: Have you thought about getting a 1080p 30"+ monitor? I don't know if you have some special reason for wanting 2560x1600, but if not, maybe look into those. There's more than a few LCD TVs that don't have any problems being used as a computer monitor. I have a 37" 1080p Westy and it's beautiful.
 
With your card I'd run at 1920x1200. It'll look just as good and will give you higher fps.
 
General Crespin said:
Simple answer is no. You can set the game's resolution to whatever you want without affecting Window's res. :)

EDIT: Have you thought about getting a 1080p 30"+ monitor? I don't know if you have some special reason for wanting 2560x1600, but if not, maybe look into those. There's more than a few LCD TVs that don't have any problems being used as a computer monitor. I have a 37" 1080p Westy and it's beautiful.
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Special reason for the 2650x1600?
I lead myself to believe it was the best.
Well, at least for looking at full rez
Met-Art images...
 
One other note the reason dvds don't look to good is because watching a dvd on a lcd like that is essentially taking a picture that is 720x480 in size and then using photoshop to blow it up to 2560x1600. Taking something small and making big, it becomes crap. A blueray or just a movie encoded at a higher resolution will need to be scaled less. Taking a 1920x1080 size picture and blowing it up to 2560x1600 will still look good cause the source material more closely matches the actual native resolution of the display i.e. less scaling is required. As someone else mentioned also keep the aspect ratio consistent if not going to run native res.
 
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