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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< please learn some basic math skills before making yourself an "expert" on how to measure >> Please learn some basic *reading* skills. I never said that 5:4 is a larger ratio than 4:3; I said a 5:4 screen is taller (relatively, given equal horizontal resolution) than a 4:3 screen. As...
- davidg
- Post #67
- May 3, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< dont see anymore wasted than on my tv or monitor >> Sure there is. Stop to think about it. If I had a TV that was one inch wide and eleven inches tall, I'd be wasting a lot of screen displaying a widescreen video. And a 5:4 screen is taller than a 4:3 screen.
- davidg
- Post #54
- Apr 30, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

If the big concern is greater vertical resolution, then take a 4:3 screen and turn it 90 degrees, for a 3:4 screen - which beats 4:3, 5:4, and 4:5! At least then, you can turn it back to 4:3 if you need to use standard resolutions. Say, to watch TV. You do realize that 5:4 wastes more screen...
- davidg
- Post #51
- Apr 30, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

The question, then, is: Why are LCD's 5:4?
- davidg
- Post #48
- Apr 30, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Big problems with ATI Radeon card.....please help

<< I know what you mean.. i dont get this on many other games, but mostly CS. It's something like the FPS is high.. but the motion in the game is kinda slidy (like the top part gets redrawn before the bottom, or w/e) and it seems choppy, and doesn't flow too well together. With CS, i never...
- davidg
- Post #6
- Mar 26, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< I have a Samsung SyncMaster 955DF @ 1280X1024, and it doesnt looks distorted. Infact, the manufacture even recommends this setting...:confused: >> Curious. Then it must be distorted at, say, 1024x768. Right? I'd hate to be stuck at 1280x1024 for everything I do!
- davidg
- Post #39
- Mar 26, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Video capture on MSI and Gainward GF4's

I can't find squat on the video capture quality, resolution, or compression on the MSI and Gainward GeForce4's. Not in reviews, and not even on the manufacturer's web sites! Could people who have these card please comment? Thanks.
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- Thread
- Mar 26, 2002
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Big problems with ATI Radeon card.....please help

You suggest that this is an OpenGL problem, yet you say Q3 and RTCW are fine... Does it happen in particular areas of those games, or randomly? I have all of those games except MoH, and they all run fine on my Radeon.
- davidg
- Post #4
- Mar 26, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

[Argh! That simultaneous login & reply bit is annoying!] IMO, proper aspect matters more than size. I'm also troubled by the lack of good resolutions between 1024x768 and 1600x1200. I've had to use tweakers and registry hacks just to get 1152x864 on my Radeon!
- davidg
- Post #37
- Mar 26, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< I have been using 1280x1024@85HZ 32bit on my Sony 21" Trinitron for 4 Years now, I I also play all my games with this setting. For all you who say size doesn't matter... well it DOES.... >>
- davidg
- Post #36
- Mar 26, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< Maybe the drivers adjust for it. >> No, sorry. If it did, you'd see noticible artifacting from interpolating or aliasing (depending on just how it tried to adjust). << Changing from 1600x1200 to 1280x1024 will not make the pixels flat instead of square. >> Yes it will. Did you try...
- davidg
- Post #32
- Mar 25, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< Wouldn't it be better if pixels were SQUARE rather than rectangular anyway? >> They are square on a 4:3 screen running a 4:3 resolution! << Perhaps its because my monitor is a bit "WIDE". >> Wider? That would be going in the other direction. A 5:4 screen is taller than a 4:3...
- davidg
- Post #26
- Mar 24, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< Works perfectly fine, and the small black border's on the bottom and top arent annoying at all. >> So when you use other modes - 4:3 modes like 1024x768 - it leaves black borders? Not with 1280x1024, right? Anyway, as a few people have pointed out, mid-range LCDs are natively 1280x1024 -...
- davidg
- Post #15
- Mar 24, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< A better question might be where did 4:3 come from? (We all know where it's going :)). >> Hmm. Where is it going?
- davidg
- Post #14
- Mar 24, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who uses 1280x1024?

<< What are you talking about? 1280X1024 is like the best resolution since its not too small, yet when playing games it always pleases the eye. >> Never noticed that the characters in your games look a little stout? :D
- davidg
- Post #11
- Mar 23, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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