Boredom and money a dangerous combo!

ColdAsIce · 11 Jul 2007 at 18:41

Been off ill from work this week and I am so bored. Got like £1000 sitting in the balance. Getting tired of my 19inch CRT. Only got it because I was taking cs 1.6 fairly serious and simply refused to go TFT as they are bad for 1.6 and especially the resolution I use, 640!

Basically been browsing ebay and online sites for the last few hours looking at a TFT to buy. Ended up placing a bid on a viewsonic TFT out of pure boredom lol :/ Hope I dont win.

Reesy · 11 Jul 2007 at 18:51

Pleb. I hope you win.

Raikiri · 11 Jul 2007 at 18:53

Well I hope it's a widescreen, and why do you play at 640?

Muffin` · 11 Jul 2007 at 18:53

640 on an crt, do you have vision problems developing

Zip · 11 Jul 2007 at 18:55

I bought a car like that

ColdAsIce · 11 Jul 2007 at 18:57

Its only in CS 1.6 that I use 640. Basically because thats my ideal setup for cracking some skullz. In other games I obviously raise the resolution to the highest I can get away with.

Carzy · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:02

Oh dear god. CAI, what the hell are you doing on here? LOL You don't crack any skulls in CS LOLZ

cleanbluesky · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:02

Reesy said:
Pleb.

ArmyofHarmony · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:03

Surely getting a new monitor wont stop the bordem

cleanbluesky · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:08

ArmyofHarmony said:
Surely getting a new monitor wont stop the bordem

Unless he uses the monitor to bring up porn, its awesome!

4ndy89 · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:12

Oddly enough, all the TFT monitors I have owned didn't support 640

[TW]Fox · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:15

You are playing a game released originally in 1999 at 640x480?

Are you running a P233?

tom_e · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:16

4ndy89 said:
Oddly enough, all the TFT monitors I have owned didn't support 640

course they do its that lovely little coloured square in the middle of it

Carzy · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:19

[TW]Fox said:
You are playing a game released originally in 1999 at 640x480?

Are you running a P233?

He's under the illusion that the bigger pixels make it easier to aim. He fails to realise that it won't make a difference, because he can't aim as it is. LOLZ

kkelly · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:22

lower res and all textures off = win for online fps at proper levels

i used to play like that tbh keeping in the top 10 clans of your game of choice is a waste of time as you miss out on so many other games D:

Carzy · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:27

kkelly said:
lower res and all textures off = win for online fps at proper levels i used to play like that tbh keeping in the top 10 clans of your game of choice is a waste of time as you miss out on so many other games D:

There's a balance to be struck between actually enjoying playing the game, and just playing to win I find. Low res and all textures off makes it just a waste of time to play imo.

Arcade Fire · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:27

I spent about a hundred smackers on books from Amazon today. I think that my impulsive purchase was the better one.

rlm · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:27

I remember the days of setting the picmip on quake 3 to 8 or 10 to make the enemy stand out, and setting the enemy models to bright green keel. I think most of the decent fps have the 'hidden' settings to play around with.

Dogoid · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:36

discover masturbation, you need balance.

squiffy · 11 Jul 2007 at 23:39

ColdAsIce said:
Its only in CS 1.6 that I use 640. Basically because thats my ideal setup for cracking some skullz. In other games I obviously raise the resolution to the highest I can get away with.

Welcome to err 1985. Why on earth are you playing games at 640x480?

HL engine isn't demanding at all, you should be able to run 1024x768 4xaa highest detail on a medium specced rig.