Widescreen LCD's and games

I'm looking for new 19'' LCD for 300 $ and I want widescreen LCD but i heard that there are problems with resolutions in games.So I want to know is it worth to buy widescreen LCD and wich is better at 300$?

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i hope your exaggerating about the terrible as even when i have screen fill it looks okay and better with anti-aliased scaling and finally for obvious reason perfect with 1:1 pixels if not sometimes a little small.

i'm starting to think it is the quality of the LCD in how good it looks, in which case i say everyone to get my monitor or at least a dell.

I meant exactly what I said. Regardless of monitor brand or specs, if you play a game at standard resolutions (ie 800x600 or 1024x786) on a widescreen LCD it will look terrible. This is a matter of preference/opinion, not monitor specifications or brand.

Think about it .. a monitor can't stretch a picture without warping the picture .. it's simple math 4:3 image stretched to 16:10 -> warped picture aka. looks terrible if you don't like a stretched image..

Doesn't matter at all what monitor it is .. as long as it is widescreen it cant fill the viewable area with a 4:3 image without warping the image.

I respect your right not to mind stretched images, but I don't see how you can state that someone else isn't allowed to think it looks terrible.

I was just trying to make the point that in this case you can in fact infer that any widescreen monitor will warp a 4:3 signal if it stretches it to fill the screen which is what i belive louky meant.

which i have proven to be untrue, again you little prick, use IMO

The question you should ask yourself above all else is... what resolution do you want to run your 4:3 games at? 1024x768 or 1280x1024?

Personally, I would not go with a 19" Widescreen LCD. If you can afford it spend the extra cash and get a 20 or 20.1" widescreen, or just go with a standard 19" LCD.

First, your resolution on a 19" widescreen is 1440x900 pixels. If you run games that only support 4:3 aspect ratio then your gaming resolution will be 1024x768. Also, 1440x900 is not *true* widescreen as its aspect ratio is only 14:9 and not 16:9. A 20" or 20.1" widescreen is your best bet, as running in 4:3 mode you still get 1280x1024 which is just as good as your standard 19" LCD. Also, most 19" LCDs (especially the cheap ones) do not have a DVI port on them. Plus 16:9 widescreens are 16:10 which are true widescreen displays with a little overkill.

Second, to avoid "stretching", NVidia and ATI drivers both have a setting to configure the monitor scaling of your flat panel. This does, however, requite two things. One, you have to be using your LCD with a DVI cable. Except for the highest-end IGPs, this also requires that you be using an add-in video card and not a sappy little IGP. Taking these two into consideration, within your Flat Panel Settings of your display driver's control panel you can set your monitor to run with "Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling." This will allow all games that only work with 4:3 aspect ratios to run in exactly that ratio. You will have black bars on ether side of the image, but for myself it is a small price to pay for the extra desktop space. Also, I use a Sceptre x20 Naga III. All games I have run on it have not experienced any tearing or ghosting.

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