Tech Report: Ultra-high-resolution Gaming ...

[caboosemoose]

Why the hell do we need such absurd resolutions?
Games look damn nice at 1280 with 2 or 4x FSAA.
But people use 1600 with 6xFSAA because CPUs are the bottleneck anyway...

You clearly haven't played games at 1,920 x 1,200 on a monitor like Dell's 2405FPW (which is a relatively affordable display by historical standards).

 

[PatrickL]

And if you play any mmorpg, you will want to have the highest resolution you can as the GUI is eating a lot of space on screen.

 

[Nappe1]

I got an old hp 19" that does 1600x1200@ 75.
hmm
edit: yep it works.
Is there some software or something to make it have black bars?
For watching high def stuff.. 1080p TS steams.

if you add black bars, then you lose the resolution that you just have achieved. (adding bars needs pixels and that's the thing you don't want to lose, while you just got more of them ) BUT...

if your monitor has enough room in adjustments, you could just scale the image in correct 16:9 shape to middle of the monitor using the monitor controls. That is what I did while testing 1600x900 output. (I have heard that this is also the correct way to make anamorphic 16:9 look right when using 3 tube CRT projector and using 16:9 resolution. (1024x576, 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, etc.)

Monitors nowadays remember mode settings quite well, so once you do it, it should be fine every time you use that resolution.

 

[Moloch]

if you add black bars, then you lose the resolution that you just have achieved. (adding bars needs pixels and that's the thing you don't want to lose, while you just got more of them ) BUT...

if your monitor has enough room in adjustments, you could just scale the image in correct 16:9 shape to middle of the monitor using the monitor controls. That is what I did while testing 1600x900 output. (I have heard that this is also the correct way to make anamorphic 16:9 look right when using 3 tube CRT projector and using 16:9 resolution. (1024x576, 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, etc.)

Monitors nowadays remember mode settings quite well, so once you do it, it should be fine every time you use that resolution.

Well I meant like making it scale, not adding bars.
The thing that confuses me about res is dvd movies regardless of aspect ratio use the same res.
i.e ntsc 720x480 no matter if it's fullscreen or 2:35:1.
I see rips of the same movies reduce the res so it has the right aspect ratio.