1024 x 768

After being in the Crysis Hardware guide forums, I've been put under the impression that 1024 x 768 is a horrificly poor quality resolution to the casual gamer. Well at least there but I wanted to get everyones take. My HD LG tv (1080i) actually is native around 1360 x 768, and well for the older games they look fantastic.

so 1024 x 768 Yay or Nay...?

1024x768 is fine for games, just people are getting pretty spoiled with insane resolutions like 2056 etc

fun fact of the day: 1024x768 is higher res than Halo 3, Cod 4 and a few other 360/PS3 titles.

Thats whatI play all my games at. I find it perfectly acceptable.

That's pretty much my default resolution for games, sometimes with AA x2 (especially when playing multiplayer with big maps). If the game's easy to run and I'll be getting minimal or no performance hits, I'd bump it up to 1200x1000, with no AA (since AA usually isn't needed for that res, if you ask me).

Anything above 1200x1000 (i.e. 1600x? or whatnot) is just stupid if you ask me. Bump other settings or just give your video card a rest - those resolutions are just ridiculous.

That's pretty much my default resolution for games, sometimes with AA x2 (especially when playing multiplayer with big maps). If the game's easy to run and I'll be getting minimal or no performance hits, I'd bump it up to 1200x1000, with no AA (since AA usually isn't needed for that res, if you ask me).

Anything above 1200x1000 (i.e. 1600x? or whatnot) is just stupid if you ask me. Bump other settings or just give your video card a rest - those resolutions are just ridiculous.

MasterYevon

lol, trust me when I tell you that 1920x1200 looks a whole lot better than what you're using. Especially with 2xAA. You guys must have bad sight or something. The difference is there and it's huge.

You may not be able to tell, but I went from 800x600 to 1024x768 to 1280x1024 and finally to 1600x1200... and I can rarely enjoy a game that forces me to use anything but 1600x1200.

Granted, with games like Crysis, I am forced to lower the resolution... :(

1024x768 is fine for games, just people are getting pretty spoiled with insane resolutions like 2056 etc

fun fact of the day: 1024x768 is higher res than Halo 3, Cod 4 and a few other 360/PS3 titles.

nutcrackr

ps3 games are native 1280x720 or 1920x1080 ps3 does not upscale because it cant so the games are native unlike 360 which does upscale

It depends on the size of your monitor. 1024x768 is a measurement. Besides that's what FSAA & AAF are for. To clean up lower resolution images and give them the same quality as a high resolution which in turn boosts performance because it's a lower resolution.

Thats whatI play all my games at. I find it perfectly acceptable.

raven_squad

Ditto

lol, I'm using 1280 x 768 on my 22inch lcd screen, I must be blind because I think it looks great.dsgsdfgf

I wonder why? I mean you have a good PC... Oh! I get it, you're talking about Crysis! ;)

Meh, I have no problem playing games at 640 all low. I'm happy I can play them:)

Maybe I'm so tolerant because I started gaming early, in the age of sprites.

Or because finishing Quake 2 and Half-Life at 12 frames was a traumatic experience and it changed my life...

Meh, I have no problem playing games at 640 all low. I'm happy I can play them:)

Maybe I'm so tolerant because I started gaming early, in the age of sprites.

Or because finishing Quake 2 and Half-Life at 12 frames was a traumatic experience and it changed my life...

Baranga

those where the days. its like a mp at 500 ping

you have to be good

It depends on the size of your monitor. 1024x768 is a measurement. Besides that's what FSAA & AAF are for. To clean up lower resolution images and give them the same quality as a high resolution which in turn boosts performance because it's a lower resolution.

MagnumPI

Ok, lets get something straight here as alot of you don't seem to realise a few things. Firstly, AA does NOT boost performance in any way. AA is MORE taxing then higher res. Infact, aside from Half Life 2 and other games using the Source engine, you may as well run at 1600*1200 then enable 2x-4x AA at 1280. This is especially true of Crysis.

I find that the only purpose of AA is so you can run a monitor at it's natural resolution, which is sometimes lower res then your PC can handle. For example, if I were to buy a monitor with a native res of 1280*1024, I'd be enabling a heap of AA to keep everything smooth. As it is I have a CRT at the moment so I can crank it up to 1920 without a problem, and thus often don't need AA. It's easier for the PC to run games at those higher resolutions then attempt to apply AA.

As for anyone being unable to tell the difference between say 1024*768 and 1600*1200, I'm betting you haven't acctually tried running a game at that res. There's a huge difference, mainly objects get very blurry in the distance, and all the edges of objects are jagged. Try it and see, and I'm serious here, if you can't tell the difference, you probably do have problems with your eyesight, only reason I can think that you wouldn't notice the jagged nature of the graphics.

I currently play on a projector that has a native res of 1024x768, it's not a bad res even on a 7 foot screen. But if I could get another projector with a higher native res then I would, but currently they're a bit too expensive.

With any LCD screen you really should play at the native res regardless of what it is. I've noticed that a few people have mentioned they play at higher res than their native res. What this means is your graphics card is rendering the higher res and then the monitor is compressing the image to fit the number of pixels it has, that's what the native res is. So the graphics card is doing more work than is actually being displayed. This compression can also cause some artifacts that make certain parts of the screen look blury or just odd.

Have fun

I have two screens. One is analog 1024x768 and the other is digital 1650x1050. The only major difference I see between games is the major performance drop which the higher resolution brings. Not worth it.

Plus i can use alot more eyecandy on the lower res.

[QUOTE="dsgsdfgf"]lol, I'm using 1280 x 768 on my 22inch lcd screen, I must be blind because I think it looks great.Adversary16

I wonder why? I mean you have a good PC... Oh! I get it, you're talking about Crysis! ;)

Oh! I forgot to write that, I'm trying to play all games possible except crysis on native res :)

Lol. Graphic hogs. Seriously its fine. I play my games at a higher resolution just because I can but if I had to play it at that res I wouldnt mind. Hell, on youtube some nut said that if you cant run Crysis max then it isnt worth playing. Lol.chester706

omg I can't believe this, I could NEVER play ANY game (except maybe crysis :P) below my monitors native res (1280x1024) it just looks horrible unless you have mega AA/AF which slows it down anywayShaDoW56

same here but in crysis i'm forced to lower my res to 1156x800 something. 1280x720 isn't right in my 19" LCD screen.

As said before in the thread, modern console games at HD resolutions (720p, 1080p) look excellent. This is because a) We are used to 480i/p on consoles and b) when playing console games, one sits farther away from the screen than one does from a pc monitor, making the aliasing less noticable.

On a monitor, resolutions matter much more. A higher resolution allows you to see more on the screen, and use much less AA since the edges are more defined.

On games like Crysis, which hog the GFX card, going to higher resolutions seems to slow the framerate less than using AA does, thus the argument for higher resolutions. (Crysis Benchmarks)

Once I started using monitors that supported 1600x1200 and higher I couldn't go back. Distant objects are much harder to aim at in lower resolutions. Example, there are almost 2.5 pixels on the 1600x1200 for every one pixel in 1024x768. Aiming at someone's head in the distance, which may be 3 pixels wide in a low res, will be 7-8 pixels wide in a higher res.

To the casual gamer, small jumps in resolution won't make much of a difference, as the size of the objects don't change, but a careful eye should be able to pick out and appreciate the detail.

Man, that was stiffly written. tl;dr I use higher resolutions because I like the detail compared to using AA on a lower one. That's what I'm trying to say.

I find that resoultion fine

I don't know why, but when I play any pc title I can't play at any resolution below 1280x1024 on my 17in ViewSonic CRT. The only game that I don't mind playing in 1024x768 is COD4; since I add a few fps while playing online, which is more important when trying to rank up and of course win matches :D . Also playing games at 1024x768 isn't bad, but the ammount of detail and crispness that I get from high res is worth the drop in fps (singleplayer wise).

*What I meant to say is that when playing multiplayer, I like to play at the discussed resolution to save performance.

1024x768 was my old standard a few months ago before I had my 8800. Its not a bad rez, and if forced I would go back to it (or its widescreen equivelent).

Now its 1680x1050 lol.

For LCD monitors it is always recommended to play at the native resolution. If you play at a non-native resolution the LCD monitor will interpolate the image, giving it a stretched pixelated look. CRT monitors don't have this problem.

I have a 17inch LCD with a native resolution of 1280x1042. The only time I'm forced to play at a resolution lower than 1280x1042 are games that don't support it, such as Diablo 2. Other than that I always play at my native resolution (1280x1042).

*What I meant to say is that when playing multiplayer, I like to play at the discussed resolution to save performance.

DeltoidRecon

This is what you do in MP games, same res:

SP cfg: http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3315/shot0000wv5.jpg

MP cfg: http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/665/shot0001cq6.jpg

Kill > gfx.

I didn't understand that so many people were playing games on like 32" tvs and such where the resolution is required. ANd i guess for the rest of us where the native is all over the place, but not as high.