480p on 720p monitor same as 720p on 1080p monitor?

[Ivan96]

I'm planning to buy new monitor,right now i have 17" monitor which have maximum resolution 1280x1024 and when i reduce it to 1024x768 in games,it becomes blury and really bad quality so i'm asking will that blury and bad quality effect happen if i reduce from 1920x1080 to 1280x720 on 1080p 24" monitor or quality will be better than 480p on 720p monitor?

 

[MarkW]

always run flat panels at their native resolution. Sometimes you can get away with half resolution.

Bottom line, if you want to run at 1024x768, buy a 1024x768 monitor.

If you have a 1280x1024 monitor, buy a video card that can do that resolution for you.

 

[Ivan96]

always run flat panels at their native resolution. Sometimes you can get away with half resolution.

Bottom line, if you want to run at 1024x768, buy a 1024x768 monitor.

If you have a 1280x1024 monitor, buy a video card that can do that resolution for you.

I will buy radeon r9 270 or gtx 660 sc but those cards can not run every game in 1080p nicely so i was wondering is it going to be really bad if i put 1280x720 resolution in some games but only in those i have low fps on 1080p

 

[MarkW]

No card can run everything out there nicely. We all have to turn down settings on some things. Even the Titans get to turn things down on 4K monitors. Most of us can only dream about doing 4K though.

Buy what you can afford, and learn to live with that. It is the best most of us can do. We are not all loaded like Donald Trump is.

 

[Ivan96]

No card can run everything out there nicely. We all have to turn down settings on some things. Even the Titans get to turn things down on 4K monitors. Most of us can only dream about doing 4K though.

Buy what you can afford, and learn to live with that. It is the best most of us can do. We are not all loaded like Donald Trump is.

You obviously didn't understand my question,i can live with things that i can afford,right now i have 7 years old computer and i don't mind that,only thing i wanted to know is the 720 p on 1080 p monitor good or bad quality because if it is i won't by 1080 p monitor, i will by smaller one 19" for example because this one that i have right now is to small and i need bigger one that's all. And i'm not expecting to run games with those cards on 60 fps on ultra,medium to high settings on 30 fps is good enough for me,right now i'm playing games on 20 fps on low so i don't need 4 K (which is btw for me just a waste of computer power 1080 p is all you need). But thanks for the answer anyway.

 

[Falkentyne]

EVERY resolution under the native will look bad, depending on the resolution and the scaling properties of the screen. *SOMETIMES* half resolution will look decent, but this purely depends on the monitor scaler, because even at half resolution, you are STILL Losing data. Images will only look pristine when run at 1:1 settings (no full screen or aspect scaling). So there is no easy answer to your question, sorry.

 

[MarkW]

I will repeat my first response:

Always run flat panels at their native resolution. Sometimes you can get away with half resolution.

Bottom line, if you want to run at 1024x768, buy a 1024x768 monitor.

If you have a 1280x1024 monitor, buy a video card that can do that resolution for you.

 

[Falkentyne]

Or he can just buy a CRT and not worry about these things.
The OP sounds like he wants his cake and wants to eat it too. You can't have both. Either buy a CRT, get a LCD with a lot of image scaling and resizing options (Benqs and LG's, especially gaming versions, have a lot of options to play with), or run your low resolution at 1:1 and deal with the black bars.