Problems with higher resolution and gaming.

GrimmFC9990

GrimmFC9990

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Ok, so I was a little unsure where to put this but here goes. I bought a new monitor a 22'' Samsung P2270HD for my computer. So I decided to run a few of my games on higher resolutions. Now, I previously ran games on my old monitor on a max resolution of 1280x1024, and mostly all games ran very very good. I ran Crysis on 1920x1080 on max and high settings with my new monitor, and it runs as it usually did. But some other games I have - Mass Effect 1, Medal of Honor, Half-Life to name a few - have been running slow on higher resolutions such as 1920x1080, and I have to set the resolution to around 1024x768 or lower to make them playable.

I have an Intel Core i5 750 CPU running at 2.67gHz; an Ati Radeon HD 5750 1024MB graphics card; and I have 8GB of RAM. I have the monitor hooked up via a normal VGA cable (the blue one). I've tried using a HDMI cable, from the port on my gfx card, to the port on the monitor, but it just does the same. So what could the problem be? All drivers are up-to-date, and all software is updated as well. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Plus, I do apologise if I've put this in the wrong topic area.
 
My harsh and fairly blunt opinion on this - your graphics card is frankly underpowered considering the rest of your system. You seem to have unnecessarily spent too much of your budget on RAM (unless you are doing photoshop and similar tasks). Crysis probably will be running more slowly than it used to but some games are more resolution dependant than others - I am guessing you're used to Crysis running a little slower than some people would like it to. Which Medal of Honor and which Half Life are you referring to?
 
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As PCM2 said, your graphics card is really out of place with the rest of your system. It seems very likely that you see differences due to the architecture of your card; when it becomes dependent on pure GPU power it will struggle no matter what else is going on.

I do not really understand how it will play Crysis on max, unless 'it runs as it usually did' means that it did not run very smoothly at all.
 
Porcelina said:
As PCM2 said, your graphics card is really out of place with the rest of your system. It seems very likely that you see differences due to the architecture of your card; when it becomes dependent on pure GPU power it will struggle no matter what else is going on.

I do not really understand how it will play Crysis on max, unless 'it runs as it usually did' means that it did not run very smoothly at all.
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yeah not very smoothly at all to be honest, but it is playable though. it runs smooth on high settings.

so the problem is the GFX card then.
 
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it is definitely your graphics card.

simply put, the higher a resolution that your graphics card has to display, the more 'power' required from the card. scaling from 800x600 up to 1920x1080 and beyond, the framerate will normally drop lower and lower. a high-resolution monitor requires a high-end graphics card to play high-demand graphics at a high-quality :)
 
Try decreasing the AA level if you use any.

You shouldn't be able to max games but they should be playable with decent settings. Mass effect was smooth on my system.
 
GrimmFC9990 said:
Medal of Honor.
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Is this the new MoH Tier 1 game?. For single player framerate increase go into your documents library and look for EA Games / Medal of Honor / Config / right click on MOHAEngine and edit and scroll down to [Engine.GameEngine] change bSmoothFrameRate=TRUE to bSmoothFrameRate=FALSE, that will uncap the framerate, and make sure vsync is off and your graphics control panel or centre is application managed.
 
thanks for all your suggestions. shame that my new monitor is causing my gaming to go slow - well perhaps not my monitor rather my graphics card, but if it hadnt been for the new monitor, then my gaming would've been fine on my old one lol. I will probably get a new graphics card in the next month or so, and hopefully I should be able to notice a difference some time in the future.

once again thank you all!
 
1920x1080 on a 22" TFT? ouch! That's got to strain your eyes :p

Personally I wouldn't jump to 1920x1080 on anything less than a 24-27" screen... A lot of 22" are 1680x1050, which would probably have been better for you.
 
FoxEye said:
1920x1080 on a 22" TFT? ouch! That's got to strain your eyes :p

Personally I wouldn't jump to 1920x1080 on anything less than a 24-27" screen... A lot of 22" are 1680x1050, which would probably have been better for you.
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I use 1920x1080 on a 23" and it's perfectly fine, I doubt a 22" is much different.
 
Having reviewed plenty of 22" 'Full HD' monitors I can safely say that it is fine for my young(ish) eyes. ;)
 
FoxEye said:
Personally I wouldn't jump to 1920x1080 on anything less than a 24-27" screen... A lot of 22" are 1680x1050, which would probably have been better for you.
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The majority of new 22" monitors are now 1080p. A year or so ago we were still on 1680x1050 @ 22" but times have changed.
 
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1920x1080 on a 22" TFT? ouch! That's got to strain your eyes :p
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The pixel density on a 22" 1080p screen is virtually identical to that of a 30" 2560-res screen (the 30" setup actually has 0.987% higher pixel density).

I'm sure it will look just fine.
 
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