Crysis on 3 monitors (video inside)

I know I've said this before, and I'm still not crapping on your thread (at least not intentionally), but 3840x800 when you're dealing with a native resolution of 5760x1200 is a total waste of time and money.

I can only imagine it looking horrid, sorry. People have tried to tell me otherwise but I know how bad LCDs look when you run in anything but their native resolution, and if the burryness is really that ok with you then you might as well crank it down to 1920x480 (640x480 per screen) for the sake of increasing the framerate a bit.

Also, as i said before: I am jealous of your awesome screens, but that's not why I criticise. I just think it would've been much simpler to go 37" plasma in 1080p instead of 2x24" if you want hugeness, and that way you wouldn't have to rape the image quality. :)
 
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I agree with the above post. Pointless running an LCD in anything but its native resolution. Why spend so much on 3 screens yet have a graphics card not powerful enough to use them effectively?
 
dbmzk1 said:
Pointless running an LCD in anything but its native resolution.
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So you are saying that all LCD TVs no matter how large are a waste, as hardly any are running in their "Native resolution"?

Anyhow, I have 3 screens cos I am a designer.

The Dells scale very well, so the image looks very nice indeed. Native res IMHO is only important for desktop work. Videos, Games etc can run in any other res and look fine.

Some screens at 3840x1024 (Click for the full size ones)

The banding is due to the JPG compression, the full size ones were 12MB each.





 
Pinter75 said:
Native res IMHO is only important for desktop work. Videos, Games etc can run in any other res and look fine.
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I'm going to have to strongly disagree I'm afraid.

I think non-native looks dreadful, unplayable in-fact, unless it's black-barred or windowed. :(

It's not down to the monitor either. ;)
 
Pinter75 said:
You are not being serious I hope!

Are you telling me you can't play a game on a panel that is not in its native resolution...
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I can, but only if the display/drivers are set up to add black borders, or in windowed mode.

Full-screen in non-native resolution, can't do it. Totally unplayable.

I even avoid games with GRAW/STALKER style deferred AA because they're unplayably blurry, but I think that's a bit more extreme than most people. I think most would agree with me about resolution though.

I either play in 1680x1050 on my 20" Samsung or in 1366x768 on my 32" Samsung (and yeah that extra 6px matters a lot in my opinion.) :p
 
He has a point. 1380x760 or whatever it is looks terrible on my 1680x1050 native resolution monitor. I wouldn't want to use non-native resolutions.
 
Pinter75 said:
So you are saying that all LCD TVs no matter how large are a waste, as hardly any are running in their "Native resolution"?

Anyhow, I have 3 screens cos I am a designer.

The Dells scale very well, so the image looks very nice indeed. Native res IMHO is only important for desktop work. Videos, Games etc can run in any other res and look fine.

Some screens at 3840x1024 (Click for the full size ones)

The banding is due to the JPG compression, the full size ones were 12MB each.

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You don't sit 2 feet away from a TV so they are a bit different. Video is also much more forgiving than text or games.

I agree with Ulfhedjinn, there is no way I could play at that res on those monitors, it would look dreadful. It might be ok at 5040x1050, but imo 3840x800 is just too low.
 
Playing stuff at non-native res just gives me a headaches as I'm constantly trying to focus on something that isn't in focus to begin with, 'orrible.

As said, native or borders for me.
 
I can play games on my LCD in non-native resolution, doesn't look too bad at all really, it just lacks a tiny bit of sharpness. That said, I don't obviously because I always have the option of native res. Although I have to play my 360 through non native res but it looks fine, plus I'm sitting further back from the screen than when playing PC games.
 
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