Getting good fps on a 30" monitor

[Digby22]

I am currently researching monitors - thinking of buying the HP LP3065.

Now this monitor has no scaling and reviews suggest that you let your graphics card do this.

My question is: what does this mean?

Can I, for instance, run graphics at half resolution (1280 x 800) to get good fps and then upscale to 2560 x 1600 using the graphics card (which would only have to assign one "calculated" pixel to a 2x2 square for output)?

I will be using the resolution for photo work - games needn't be run at such a fine resolution (I prefer speed).

My graphics card is a 4870. I'd prefer not to have to double it up.

Thanks for any help!

John

 

[Rroff]

You can run at quater res and then let the display/gpu upscale - it would look a bit blurry compared to running that res on a native display tho...

 

[ZardoZ]

hi,

i have the dell 30" and i have no problems running games at any res, however i do lose sharpness when its not running at its native rez.

 

[Digby22]

thanks for replies so far...

Rroff: when you say "let the display/gpu upscale it" how would I make the gpu upscale it? The HP 30" monitor does not upscale as far as I can tell, so I would rely on the gpu doing that.

Is it just a matter of selecting 1280 x 800 as the game resolution? Will the gpu still output at 2560 x 1600?

ZardoZ: which dell do you have? As far as I can tell, the 3008 does upscaling but the 3007 not. Is it your monitor or gpu that is upscaling?

Cheers

John

 

[ZardoZ]

i have the 3007, im not sure what you mean by upscaleing but i can tell you it operates at any rez.