Anyone here game at 1920x1080?

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

21% 1080p

7% 1200p.


I find the 16:9 shape of my 1080 monitor superior for 1st and 3rd person games but my previous 16:10 shape 1050p (18%btw) monitor better for RTS games.

Away from gaming most internet pages gain nothing by the extra width, but the windows desktop environment is much comfier with more dots to the side to shift folders into.
 
1920x1200 is probably marginally better supported than 1920x1080 due to a few older games with hardcoded resolutions, but even then, 1920x1200 is a realtively 'new' resolution in itself, if you go back 8 years or more you may not even find support for that in some games.

Pretty shocked actually to see 1920x1080 is now the most popular screen on Steam surveys, thought it would be less than that when you consider the pretty poor standard of hardware people tend to have by enthusiast standards (~59% of people have fewer than 3 cpu cores, ~49% have 512MB or less VRAM, ~75% have less than 1TB total HD space, over 50% have under 4GB RAM etc)
 
The nicer thing about 1920x1200 is that for old games that don't support widescreen resolutions, or just to get a bit more performance you can play at 1600x1200 without any ugliness as it's 1:1.
 
HangTime said:
1920x1200 is probably marginally better supported than 1920x1080 due to a few older games with hardcoded resolutions, but even then, 1920x1200 is a realtively 'new' resolution in itself, if you go back 8 years or more you may not even find support for that in some games.

Pretty shocked actually to see 1920x1080 is now the most popular screen on Steam surveys, thought it would be less than that when you consider the pretty poor standard of hardware people tend to have by enthusiast standards (~59% of people have fewer than 3 cpu cores, ~49% have 512MB or less VRAM, ~75% have less than 1TB total HD space, over 50% have under 4GB RAM etc)
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the peggle players skew the stats :p
 
Most games seem to sort of stretch down the high on 1920x1200 anyway for a fixed FOV.
So sadly 1920x1080 has so much more width it doesn't make it worth it to play 1920x1200.
Better for desktop or games that don't though.
 
sldsmkd said:
It isn't these days, 1920x1080 is more commonly supported. 1920x1200 often is letterboxed.
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Correct. 1920x1080 is the standard and better for gaming.

1920x1200 means smaller FOV and black bars. 1920x1200 is heavier to drive for your GFX card too so you get higher frames per second and better flow using 1920x1080.
 
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Trana said:
Correct. 1920x1080 is the standard and better for gaming.

1920x1200 means smaller FOV and black bars. 1920x1200 is heavier to drive for your GFX card too so you get higher frames per second and better flow using 1920x1080.
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It's not better or worse.
It doesn't mean black bars at all when games support that res.
 
Went from a 1920x1200 to 1920x1080 monitor and didn't notice much a difference in gaming. 1080 is the standard now anyway as others have pointed out so makes sense to go with it.
 
Strife212 said:
What about it is in any way better than 1920x1200?
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To play online games in 16:10 resolutions means a major disadvantage.

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Depends on the game; 16:10 isn't inherently worse than 16:9, it just seems to be that the implementation is in some cases. If you are playing games like that then I can see the problem... might even be a case therefore for using a custom aspect ratio (say 16:8) or multiple monitors to get you even bigger FOV, if supported.

Also "1920x1200 is heavier to drive for your GFX card too so you get higher frames per second and better flow using 1920x1080" has got to be one of the most bizarre explanations I've seen - higher resolution in being more demanding shocker! Surely by that logic you'd be much better off with a 1280x720 screen or similar, even more fps then! :)
 
Silly question time,

Ive got a 22" widescreen Viewsonic monitor that has a 1680x1050 max res. I play all my games at this res. I see most current gen 22" monitors now support 1920x1080.

Am I right in thinking the larger the screen size at the same res will look worse if you sit the same distance from it. For example, if I didnt change my desk layout and still sat in the exact same position in relation to my monitor and bought a larger size monitor that had a 1920x1080 res, would the image sharpness be worse than if I had a 22" monitor at 1920x1080?

If that makes sense lol? Anyone?
 
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