Does screen size effect FPS gaming ??

chaparral · 24 Jul 2011 at 10:44

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..

Garonazz · 24 Jul 2011 at 11:03

Not sure if srs.

Wepohn · 24 Jul 2011 at 11:05

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.

orderoftheflame · 24 Jul 2011 at 11:06

chaparral said:
For example
You have to move the crosshairs around much farther on a 30" screen compared to a 17" screen..

That would be your mouse sensitivity.

chaparral · 24 Jul 2011 at 12:24

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Amnesia · 24 Jul 2011 at 12:25

joke thread ?

or did you get confused and mean a higher resolution

Mr Krugga · 24 Jul 2011 at 12:27

Yes...But you need to move the crosshair at up to double the speed for the same ingame distance

Umm, no. You just have to increase the mouse sensitivity.

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starfighter · 24 Jul 2011 at 12:38

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.

chaparral · 24 Jul 2011 at 13:05

Amnesia said:
joke thread ?

No...

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

Amnesia · 24 Jul 2011 at 13:31

chaparral said:
No...

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

thats to be expected but its not really because of the size but the technology

garsands · 24 Jul 2011 at 13:39

chaparral said:
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.

Stag · 24 Jul 2011 at 13:47

chaparral said:
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.

Amnesia · 24 Jul 2011 at 13:50

try playing on about a 20" crt with a stupidly high refresh rate...you will love your k/d ratio then.

Stag · 24 Jul 2011 at 14:01

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?

Locky · 24 Jul 2011 at 15:14

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.

Rroff · 24 Jul 2011 at 15:27

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.

Dave**** · 24 Jul 2011 at 16:08

22 inches is just right. Same goes for my monitors

compboyo · 24 Jul 2011 at 19:51

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

stooeh · 24 Jul 2011 at 20:00

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.

Grad · 24 Jul 2011 at 20:13

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.