Widescreen Gaming Forum

Mm.

Basically the only advice I can give is that you should be 100% happy with the screen. Because you spend all your time looking at it. The four bits of the computer that you should absolutely not skimp on are the screen, keyboard, mouse and PSU. If your interaction with your computer is uncomfortable, then the whole experience will be ruined.

Don't send the screen back if the framerate is slightly lower than you would like - just turn the detail down a little. The screen should last many more years than any hardware actually in the case. :)

I have never had a problem scaling a lower resolution to fit the screen and having it look good.

Id personally rather play a lower resolution in a game and scale it up with higher visual and detial settings, than the opposite and have lower settings with a higher resolution.


I have 1920x1080 on a 37" and scaling isnt noticible.

on a 24" it should be even harder to see anything due to the smaller dot pitch.

I have a tight dot pitch too, my notebook uses 1680 X 1050 and its only 15" scaling seems to be fine on it aswell.


definitely dont regret the size or pixel count of the screen, scaling is just fine, and in the future as your hardware gets stronger you may start to use the native resolution if you want and still have great fps.

as a added benefit you get all the extra screen real estate too when web surfing or your desktop.

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I never could tell what people were on abuut as far as "scaling artifacts". Always seems fine to me.

My 8800gtx never drops below 40 in Half-life Lost cost, and even the more demanding Dark Messiah is perfect. Even Armed Assualt runs pretty good.

and this is at 2560x1600...

I really miss the ability to put my 24" into portrait mode for viewing web pages. I used the nvidia quick menu in the taskbar to quickly change the desktop rotation.

My 8800GTX allows me to play STALKER, FEAR, Oblivion, and Half Life 2 (Lost coast and all mods) at 2048x1536 resolution with the control panel forcing all games to run at 16xQ Anti Aliasing, and all of the game settings on high, at frame rates that range from amazingly high (FEAR, STALKER, Half Life 2), to a good 30-40FPS for Oblivion, which is a real beast in large areas). So yeah, I think that you should be fine.