Gameplay regarding monitor?

[prithvi456]

hi , i have a monitor which is very small..so i just wanted to ask wether does a monitor also effect gaming. coz due to my my small monitor i cant get much resolution.I have good specs. nothing to worry about.just abt the monitor. does it effect gameplay?

 

[Wolfshadw]

The lower the resolution (smaller monitors tend towards lower resolutions), the less work your GPU has to do rendering the scene. This *may* improve your frame rate and allow for smoother game play.

-Wolf sends

 

[prithvi456]

so u mean to say that if i get a bigger monitor,ill get better performance?

 

[rofl_my_waffle]

There is differences on many fronts.

Aspect ratio is probably the most noticable. A monitor with 4:3 aspect ratio would have a 25% smaller field of view as a 16:9 monitor so the difference is significant. 16:9 and 16:10 is negligible.

Someone with a higher resolution, thus bigger would have textures and models being represented by more pixels. This is insignificant in other games but with shooters, long range targets will be represented by fewer or more pixels. Running somethinkg like 800x600 might have a target look like 10 pixels you can only aim at one particular pixel and even one pixel might be a huge margin.

A screen at 2560x1600 would have 4x the pixels of a 1280x1024 screen. So targets are effectively 4x bigger and have 4x more surface area to aim on. Think of having a 4x scope on at all times but this scope doesn't limit your field of vision.

Things at higher resolution would of course look sharper and bigger as well with more detail but for gameplay it won't matter.

Larger resolution settings would tax only GPU performance. You need a bigger monitor and possibly a beefier graphics card to handle it. Larger graphics RAM is most important for high resolutions. 1GB is usually good for resolutions up to 2560x1600.

 

[jay2tall]

hi , i have a monitor which is very small..so i just wanted to ask wether does a monitor also effect gaming. coz due to my my small monitor i cant get much resolution.I have good specs. nothing to worry about.just abt the monitor. does it effect gameplay?

The monitor is your visual interface to a game. I know people who game on small monitors and like it because they only need to focus on a small area. I know others that prefer a large monitor or even a huge TV. I think it depends on the games you play. Personally for PC gaming I like a 22-24" wides screen display. It limits your looking around on a large screen and is big enough to engulf you in the game. It really is personal preference. It is one of those areas that you could argue about all day.

 

[DarthPiggie]

I remember when I went from a 17" CRt to a 22" LCD. 12x10 to 16x10.
The difference was remarkable. My eyes could not stop feasting on the amount of detail I never before saw in games like Oblivion. It makes for a lot better immersion, believe me on that one.