changing the res. to 1680x1050 from 1024x768-what will be the fps decrease?

hi, right now i have a 17' flat philips crt screen which i use at 1024*768 and i'm thinking of buying a Samsung 226BW. But my only concern is my performance at games might fall. my rig: 2gigs of ram,c2d e4500, and a 8800 GT.

i'm getting a stable 60 fps at most games maxed out (Stranglehold,Call of Duty,NFS-PS,Kane&Lynch;MohA),30-60 fps at Crysis at high and 40 fps at Dirt on ultra.

my question is if i'll buy the 226BW for example will i get a stable 60fps again or will it fall down at 40-50? and what about crysis? probably i won't be running on high any more right? :(

thanks in advance! :)

Yes, but it wouldn't look right. It would either be streached or text would be unreadable due to a low resolution.kodex1717

right know i'm playing at 1024*768.

your idea of 'buying a 19' instead of 22' came ideal to me :)

I'd certainly change your monitor, but I'd go with a 19" widescreen with a resolution of 1440x900. You'll get slightly better performance than if you playing at 1280x1024. I recently changed from an 11 year old IBM P50 (16", 1024x768 ) to my LG Flatron L196WTQ (19", 1440x900, 2ms resopnse time, 3000:1 contrast ratio) and the difference is night and day. Where the colors were bleached-out on the CRT, they're vivid and life-like on the LCD. Things even blur less with motion, if you can believe that. I highly recommend that you get a 19" widescreen monitor, as it's far better than what you have.kodex1717

The difference in size between a 19" and a 22" is rather substantial, but either is far better than an old 17" CRT. You should be very satisfied if that's the route you take.kodex1717

With that card you should be able to max out every game at 1650x1050 res with very good frame rates, I have the 226bw monitor and play bioshock and unreal tournament 3 perfectly at that res with the 8800GTS 640MB card. Crysis I play everything at high with a resolution of 1280x768 and average 20-30fps.

To tell you the truth dropping resolutions isn't as bad as everybody says it is, I find it hard to really see the major quality drop when using nvidia scaling with fixed-aspect ratio.

i tried a few games with 1280x1024 res. and my fps was between 45-50 at CoD 4,Stranglehold,K&l so it means like there is a 10 fps decrease. if i buy a 19' wide lcd and use the 1440x900 res. fps decrease will be a bit lower than this,right?

If you are worried about these things so much why dont you buy a good 19" CRT?

Seriously think about it you will be really restricted to one resolution.And crysis is not the only game out there that has a bad performance.I play dirt in 10x7 cuz the performance in 12x10 is acceptable but it's like low 30's most of the time whereas in 10x7 it's good in the 40's.I am pretty sure that the 8800GT cannot smoothly max out dirt in 16x10.

And whoever says that he upgraded from a CRT to LCD and thought the diference is night and day in picture quality must have a really crappy CRT to begin with.And i am pretty sure that your current monitor is also crappy that's why you cant play in 12x10 due to the refresh rate.When buying a CRT the most important thing to look at is the refresh rates on different resolutions.

If you are worried about these things so much why dont you buy a good 19" CRT?

Seriously think about it you will be really restricted to one resolution.And crysis is not the only game out there that has a bad performance.I play dirt in 10x7 cuz the performance in 12x10 is acceptable but it's like low 30's most of the time whereas in 10x7 it's good in the 40's.And whoever says that he upgraded from a CRT to LCD and thought the diference is night and day in picture quality must have a really crappy CRT to begin with.And i am pretty sure that your current monitor is also crappy that's why you cant play in 12x10 due to the refresh rate.When buying a CRT the most important thing to look at is the refresh rates on different resolutions.

Thinker_145

If you are worried about these things so much why dont you buy a good 19" CRT?

Seriously think about it you will be really restricted to one resolution.And crysis is not the only game out there that has a bad performance.I play dirt in 10x7 cuz the performance in 12x10 is acceptable but it's like low 30's most of the time whereas in 10x7 it's good in the 40's.And whoever says that he upgraded from a CRT to LCD and thought the diference is night and day in picture quality must have a really crappy CRT to begin with.And i am pretty sure that your current monitor is also crappy that's why you cant play in 12x10 due to the refresh rate.When buying a CRT the most important thing to look at is the refresh rates on different resolutions.

Thinker_145

Im really starting to hate this guy, all he talks about are CRT monitors. every thread that i see him post on he manages to slip in crt into the conversation. Get with the times, LCD is the future.

my Q remains;

i tried a few games with 1280x1024 res. and my fps was between 45-50 at CoD 4,Stranglehold,K&l so it means like there is a 10 fps decrease. if i buy a 19' wide lcd and use the 1440x900 res. fps decrease will be a bit lower than this,right?

my Q remains;

i tried a few games with 1280x1024 res. and my fps was between 45-50 at CoD 4,Stranglehold,K&l so it means like there is a 10 fps decrease. if i buy a 19' wide lcd and use the 1440x900 res. fps decrease will be a bit lower than this,right?

onuruca

And you do have the 512MB 8800GT right?

[QUOTE="onuruca"]

my Q remains;

i tried a few games with 1280x1024 res. and my fps was between 45-50 at CoD 4,Stranglehold,K&l so it means like there is a 10 fps decrease. if i buy a 19' wide lcd and use the 1440x900 res. fps decrease will be a bit lower than this,right?

Thinker_145

And you do have the 512MB 8800GT right?

i did it .. it's almost nothing

i played tf2 at 1024x768 ... maybe was at 60 fps
1680x1050 didn't even drop to 50 ... the average is 55 and a lot in 60

another Q, if i oc my 8800 GT (memory clock maybe) will it stop the fps decrease a little bit?

another Q, if i oc my 8800 GT (memory clock maybe) will it stop the fps decrease a little bit?

onuruca

But i think you would really be ok with a 14x9 LCD.It's basically the second lowest playable resolution after 10x7.

i see but the only think that bugs me is when i tried 1280*1024 res. at a few game some of them were playing between 30-60 fps. (before a stable 60 fps) but cod4 was running at a stable 50fps (before 60)

For my opinion instead of getting 720p HDTV, get 22' widescreen and get another 8800GT for SLI mode in this case you can show off by having SLI :P + Advantage having such screne with aresultion without being worried for the FPS going down.
Anyway as couple guys mentioed, you wont lose that much. You will probably wont have any unplayabe game even Crysis, so with SLI, its like 100% you wont espcially that we are talking about new games which all support SLI with amajor difference between Single GPU and SLI.SearchMaster

Anyways SLI is worthless and totally inefficient.Alot of times you have to wait for new drivers or pathes or hotfixes before you can play your game with SLI support which sucks IMO.

And besides a HDTV destroys a TN LCD.

i see but the only think that bugs me is when i tried 1280*1024 res. at a few game some of them were playing between 30-60 fps. (before a stable 60 fps) but cod4 was running at a stable 50fps (before 60)

onuruca

You wont have any of these issues with that.

[QUOTE="SearchMaster"]For my opinion instead of getting 720p HDTV, get 22' widescreen and get another 8800GT for SLI mode in this case you can show off by having SLI :P + Advantage having such screne with aresultion without being worried for the FPS going down.
Anyway as couple guys mentioed, you wont lose that much. You will probably wont have any unplayabe game even Crysis, so with SLI, its like 100% you wont espcially that we are talking about new games which all support SLI with amajor difference between Single GPU and SLI.Thinker_145

Anyways SLI is worthless and totally inefficient.Alot of times you have to wait for new drivers or pathes or hotfixes before you can play your game with SLI support which sucks IMO.

And besides a HDTV destroys a TN LCD.

[QUOTE="Thinker_145"]

[QUOTE="SearchMaster"]For my opinion instead of getting 720p HDTV, get 22' widescreen and get another 8800GT for SLI mode in this case you can show off by having SLI :P + Advantage having such screne with aresultion without being worried for the FPS going down.
Anyway as couple guys mentioed, you wont lose that much. You will probably wont have any unplayabe game even Crysis, so with SLI, its like 100% you wont espcially that we are talking about new games which all support SLI with amajor difference between Single GPU and SLI.SearchMaster

Anyways SLI is worthless and totally inefficient.Alot of times you have to wait for new drivers or pathes or hotfixes before you can play your game with SLI support which sucks IMO.

And besides a HDTV destroys a TN LCD.

But if TC gets a CRT than he will be able to play most current games in a high resolution and will still be able to play the more demanding games like DIRT and crysis in a lower resolution.Best of both worlds if you ask me.

It's a crime to have that card and run 10*7 :?X360PS3AMD05

well that card sucked when i tried on 1280X1024.

It's a crime to have that card and run 10*7 :?X360PS3AMD05

well that card sucked when i tried on 1280X1024.

[QUOTE="X360PS3AMD05"]It's a crime to have that card and run 10*7 :?onuruca

But actually these are the only 2 games so far that i had to run in 10x7 on my PC.However playing all of your games in 10x7 with an 8800GT is not right after all cuz you could be playing in a higher res like 12x10 the not so demanding games.

ok;

cod 4,everythinh max at 1024x768 : 60 FPS

cod 4 everything max at 1280x1024: 50-55 FPS

Kane&Lynch at max 1024x768: 60 FPS

kane&lynch at max 1280x1024 : 60 FPS again

CMR-DiRT at everthing ultra 1024x768: 32-43 fps

CMR-DiRT at everthng ultra 1280x1024: 22-33 fps

Stranglehold-max 10x7 60 fps

stranglehold-max 12-10 60 fps again sometimes drops at 50

so seems likei won't be loosing too much if i go to an 19' lcd wide? :)

If the game is CPU-bound, increasing the resolution won't net a big performance loss. With recent games that rely more on the GPU (cfr Dirt), fps will go down a lot when increasing the res.

Looks like your games are capped at 60 fps (vsync on?) so they could actually perform better - and thus, decrease fps more when you increase the res.

12*10 is still not high res................:|X360PS3AMD05

Why waste your money on an 8800GT :|X360PS3AMD05

And did you not notice his performance in dirt.:|