Screen resolution

[grewal630]

Hello,
I have samsung B2230 syncMaster monitor and amd athollon 630 X4 based cpu. also i have installed ati HD4670 1 gig graphic card . Now i can play all games with good fraps. But to get good results I mostly play games like crysis2 with lower resolution.but my monitor has Auto and Wide option for display. With wide mode any resolution game can be played on full screen(1920X1080) . So my question is if I can play lower resolution on full screen then why should one buy expensive GPU for full screen HD resuls.

 

[renz496]

since playing the game with native resolution will looks better than using lower resolution that monitor can support

 

[cjl]

Because lower resolution looks quite a bit worse than native.

 

[grewal630]

By lower resolutions i mean reasonable resolution not really low like 800X600 . I mostly play games bit lower than optimal resolution. Most common resolution which i prefer is 1280X800 . At this resolution I can easily get good frames per second rate(25-35).

 

[renz496]

my monitor native resolution are 1600x900. sure i can play my game at 1280x800 but to me lowering the resolution from the native resolution will make the game look less sharp and personally i don't like it. if that does not matter to you then you can go for it. in the end it depends on your preference either you like it or not

 

[cjl]

First, 25-35 is OK, but certainly not optimal. Second, 1280x800 does indeed look a LOT worse than 2560x1600 (the resolution I usually play at). For that matter, so does 1920x1080. It's possible that you just aren't very picky about image quality, but it's quite a noticeable difference to me.