Does screen size effect FPS gaming ??

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Does screen size effect games like FPS ??


For example
You have to move the crosshairs around much farther on a 30" screen compared to a 17" screen..
 
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Nah, I'm pretty sure you don't have to move the mouse any more purely with an increase in screen size, although I think that a resolution increase would do.

I think most competitive players would prefer to keep screen size to 24 or < as it's easier to focus and identify things? at least that's how I feel.
 
Higher resolution which is usually on bigger screens means you can see more of the game which gives you an advantage. But not much else. A high res on a small screen might make your crosshair smaller but assuming your eeysight is good it shouldn't actually matter.
 
No...

For some reason i always seem to better at playing FPS on my old 17" square CRT then on my 24" widescreen monitor..

I found the same going from a 21" to a 27" But I think it's more of a case of my eyes now need to look around the screen more then just been fixed looking at a smaller screen.
 
No...

For some reason i always seem to better at playing FPS on my old 17" square CRT then on my 24" widescreen monitor..

That's the input lag of the LCD compared to the lag free CRT. Some LCDs even have input lag of 30ms or more.
 
Your Dell U2410 has 33.8 ms input lag in its normal mode which is reduced to 14.4 ms in its game mode. Do you use the game mode?
 
deffo better playing on a 21 inch Diamond crt monitor. but id rather be slight disadvantaged than have that massive 50kg slab on my desk.
 
I prefer playing on a 22" TFT @ 120Hz - any bigger res and my eyes are travelling too much around the screen - tho its more to do with eye fatigue than gameplay performance.
 
i have 22 inch monitor but it only goes 1650x1050?

So Im thinking of getting a 1080p monitor.

do you play 1080p on 22" monitor?


I prob buy a 23 or 24 soon
 
Well it shouldn't affect anything really as most games would simply scale up the display. If you change the aspect ratio then hopefully you get to see more! For example increasing the aspect very wide via eyefinity or equivalent should let you see more but it doesn't always work that way.

Never really noticed much with regards to sensitivity changes but these days I am using 1920x1080 99% of the time.
 
I always found on a larger screen (42) that I was moving eyes a little more whereas on a smaller (22) I was taking more in at one glance. I am however weird, and really bad at FPS games.
 
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