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Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards

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On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:54:09 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
<rstowleigh@gmail.com> wrote:


>You brought up another very important point about native resolution.
>All of my other computer use, including software development, requires
>high resolution, so I typically want a 1920x1200 resolution for work.
>But for gaming, I like the ability to switch to whatever resolution
>looks and plays the best.  On a graphically demanding game, it might
>mean bumping down to 1280ish resolution, which looks like relative
>crap on an LCD with a native res of higher.  It wouldn't be as big of
>a problem if I were just stuck with a native rez LCD of 1280x1024, but
>does anyone actually use one that small anymore?
>
>Also, sometimes you find the geometry scaling of certain games is not
>perfect across all resolutions.  Like maybe if I play at 1600+, the
>enemy becomes too small at long distances, so I want to drop back to
>1280 without image loss, etc.
>
>It's that flexibility that you have with CRTs.  Sometimes when I hear
>of folks bemoan the decline of PC gaming, I wonder how much LCDs have
>contributed to the downfall of action FPS gaming, while seemingly
>genres that lend themselves well to LCDs (MMORPGs, RTS etc) seem to
>thrive.

Maybe I'm just not that picky, but I've never had an issue with any of
the interpolation/non-native res stuff. I run Crysis at 1680x1050 for
90% of the game, then have to drop it down to a much lower resolution
when you get the hideously ugly and optimized alien things on the air
craft carrier. It looks like Playstation 1 graphics, but must be made
of 30 billion microscopic polygons. LOL

The only thing I do is keep a little list of resolutions that are
close to 16:10 because I hate when things look stretched or
smooshed... Like if a game won't run right at 1680x1050, I'll drop it
down to 1280x800 then work backwards from there.

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  Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Tim O <timo56REMOVE@hotmail.com> - 2011-03-31 20:04 -0400
    Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-03-31 21:19 -0400
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    Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-03-31 21:26 -0400
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    Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-01 00:39 -0400
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    Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-01 09:20 -0400
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        Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-01 11:54 -0400
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            Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-01 21:07 -0400
              Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> - 2011-04-02 17:38 +0100
                Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 01:23 -0400
                Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> - 2011-04-03 18:50 +0100
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  Re: nVidia GTX 590 impressions / impact on games of highend cards Christian Brandt <brandtc@psi5.com> - 2011-04-04 12:54 +0200
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