What resolution do you play at?

[ikjadoon]

Hi. I am just wondering what resolution people play their games at today to see the benefits of some reviews, and most of all the benefit of SLi.

I tried to list all the common resolutions. I would've done some more oddball ones, but it won't give me any more options.

~Ibrahim~

 

[b_diddy_t]

I always play at 320x240.

That's all Quake will let me go up to, but i'm not sure I should go higher anyway cause its a bit laggy as it is.

 

[ikjadoon]

lmao. What kind of monitor even goes that low?

~Ibrahim~

 

[b_diddy_t]

Actually, its not a monitor. I play on an oscilloscope.

Its also good for Pong! and SpaceWar. The response time shits all over LCD.

 

[pauldh]

I voted 12x10 although I probably play 16x12 25% of the time. In Oblivion I have been playing 10x7 2xaa + HDR most of the time, but recently have been doing 12x10 no aa HDR also.

 

[Human1]

I used to play at 16x12, but had to replace my CRT with a TFT and it only goes up to 12x10, so that's where I am these days. Oh well, I can't really tell any difference anyway.

 

[ikjadoon]

Can AA make up for a lower resolution?

~Ibrahim~

 

[earnhardt2]

It can somewhat, but the higher resolution will give you better quality.

 

[lcdguy]

i constantly play at 1680x1050. with almost no lag at all the only game i havent tried yet is oblivon, oh and my system is not SLI/Crossfire

Graphics Setup

ATI X1900XT 512MB
Viewsonic VX2025WM

cheers

 

[samir_nayanajaad]

I say it depends on what type of game I am playing. but for the most part if it involves a gun or some type of aiming I go with 800x600 because it makes things huge and easy to hit.

I make up for the low field of view by cranking up the mouse, so with the big heads you dont need to be sniper steady with the aim. and besides I am much more of a up in your face with the sawn off type of player. That or a sniper, one of the two extreems, but preferably up close UT flack cannon style. Not a good mid range fighter and thats why im not so good because most fighting is mid range.

one other thing about being an up close fighter, it is so much fun to just run in the base balls out with the shotty kill 75% of the other team then once your dead have the rest of the team come in nab the flag and I will be respawnd at my base grab a sniper and cover the team running back.

 

[b_diddy_t]

I go with 800x600 because it makes things huge and easy to hit.

I have never played a FPS where changing the resolution changed the size of my opponents. ?!? wtf...

I mean its not like when you change the resolution of my desktop and all the icons get bigger and smaller, so i'm wondering what FPS's have you played where this happens?!?

 

[Heyyou27]

1680x1050; thanks to SLI I am actually able to play every game I own with at least 4xAA at my native resolution.

 

[prozac26]

I play at 1024x768 and 800x600.

 

[KlaasVaak]

1280x1024, but only because I have an LCD monitor with this as native resolution. With a CRT montior I would have preferred 1024x768.

 

[chuckshissle]

1280x1024 @ 60Hz on LCD.

 

[sailer]

I play at 1280 x 1024, partly because that's what the LCD wants, partly because my eyes just can't see well enough if the stuff in the game gets too small. I could get a bigger monitor and higher resolution, but haven't seen the need yet.

 

[ikjadoon]

So no lag playing at 1680x1050 with a single GPU solution. Interesting. Makes me think where SLi/Cross-Fire really are. As of now, the highest resolution ticked is the 1920x1200, by one person. I imagine running Far Cry on that possibly might take a dual-GPU setup for good FPS on a FPS.

~Ibrahim~

 

[Heyyou27]

I could play at 1920x1200 at the max in game settings with my 7800GTs if my monitor permitted; since I'm at 1680x1050 I can still increase the terrain lod ration and vegetation lod ratio to help retain world detail even from a very far distance. (Higher than in game max settings)

 

[lcdguy]

yup was running fear at that res the only things that weren't maxed

soft shadows
detail decals (or something like that)

avg framerate: 45

System Specs

AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.4 GHZ
1GB OCZ GX XTC PC3500
320GB Seagate 7200.10 Sata II
ATI X1900XT 512MB
Viewsonic VX2025WM
X-Mystique 7.1
generic Keyboard
Logitech MX500 Mouse
Antec Sonata Tower
Antec Neo HE 500 PSU
Asus A8N32-SLI

not only just it run games fine, it eats my video encoding jobs for breakfast

 

[ikjadoon]

Ahh..So with dual GT's you play with a lower resolution, but you crack up the eye candy.

That is how I like to play; I have to play at my 17" highest resolution: 1280x1024 and I try to bump all the settings on high, but that is hard with a GeForce 4 Ti 4600, lol.

~Ibrahim~

 

[ikjadoon]

I see. So the cards at the very top alone can do pretty well, while SLi/CrossFire will only help at resolutions above 1920x1200. Intrestingly, few votes.

~Ibrahim~

 

[b_diddy_t]

With my 6MB Pure3D I also like to crank up the settings to High. With 4xAA and AF I find Oblivion is pretty smooth at 1x1.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

I would've prefer that the categories were in range, because you don't have enough widescren options and they aren't in my 'zone'.

I picke 12x10, but really for Oblivion it's custom widescreen, because it won't handle native 14x9. :lol:

 

[lcdguy]

I see. So the cards at the very top alone can do pretty well, while SLi/CrossFire will only help at resolutions above 1920x1200. Intrestingly, few votes.

~Ibrahim~

yup and since my monitor only goes to 1680x1050 theres no need ATM to go to sli/crossfire (not to mention nvidia pissed me off for the last time)

 

[chuckshissle]

I've have tried running BF2 at 1600x1200. Frame rates are okay but the CRT is hurting my eyes, I don't like CRT anymore and I have since switch to LCD. Planning to get 24" LCD next year when prices go down.