Native Res

stickroad

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Hey guys, just slightly confused at the moment about Native Res. Is it true that if you dont play at your Native Res it dosent look quite right?

Well i have a 19Inch screen, so my Native is 1440x900, personally to me it just looks funny to cramped for me. So i have my screen set to 1280x1024, so much nicer, but i don't see any loss in quality.
 
You should do, as the screen is stretching it (horizontally) and vertically squashing to fit. Not only that but ratio is wrong.

Set it to 1440x900.As for gaming, set it to 1440x900 as well.

What make/model is your screen?
 
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After changing it to native, have you run the monitor auto-scan thingy? Adjusts placement/phase etc.

Native will always look better than non native. I'm running 1280x1024 on a LG 17" (native)
 
squiffy said:
After changing it to native, have you run the monitor auto-scan thingy? Adjusts placement/phase etc.

Native will always look better than non native. I'm running 1280x1024 on a LG 17" (native)
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Yep, still dosent look quite right if you ask me.
 
Take a photo? Also take one close up. Open paint, and paint one pixel. It should look 1 pixel wide & high.

Is this your first widescreen monitor?
 
squiffy said:
Take a photo? Also take one close up. Open paint, and paint one pixel. It should look 1 pixel wide & high.

Is this your first widescreen monitor?
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Yep its my first, sorry what do you mean by the above statement: (in bold) :p
 
stickroad said:
Yep its my first, sorry what do you mean by the above statement: (in bold) :p
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Do it and the pixel should be a square, wheres yours will be a rectangle (i think anyway?)

Ill be getting my first widescreen next week, will take a lot of getting used to after years of 1280x1024 @ 19"!
 
Clarkey said:
stretching a 5:4 ratio onto a 16:10 screen, how on earth can this look better :confused:
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Are you talking about Windows or Videos?
There is no stretching in windows if you set it to 1440x900.
As for videos, keep 4:3 video as OAR (borders on the left & right)
 
stickroad said:
Because it does :D , it dosent seem as cramped.
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What do you mean by cramped exactly? Do you mean text is too small and desktop icons are too small and too close to each other? Or do you mean that compared to 1280*1024, you don't have enough vertical space to work with in 1440*900?

Really shouldn't be running it at 1280*1024 since it doesn't even have 1024 vertical pixels, plus it's a 5:4 aspect ratio resolution whereas your screen is 16:10 so your pixels aren't square. I'm surprised you're not just getting a 'signal out of range' message and a black screen TBH.
 
Take a photo with digital camera please. If you're outputting 1280x1024 (which I doubt as previous poster said it's out of range) but even if you could it'll look horrible, stretching up and scaling down both H&V.
 
I think you should take a picture showing your screen in the current res that you like, I don't understand how 5:4 on a 16:10 screen can look good...ah well...
 
squiffy said:
Take a photo with digital camera please. If you're outputting 1280x1024 (which I doubt as previous poster said it's out of range) but even if you could it'll look horrible, stretching up and scaling down both H&V.
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Digital Camera, dont have one in the house :( sorry. Im defiantly running at 1280x1024 no dought about it.

It dosent look awful one bit. Any chance someone could take a shot of their screen using a 1280x1024 Res pretty please :D ? So i can compare.

Didnt know their was such a strong view on this. :)
 
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If you're sending a lower resolution (H) the icons won't be smaller, they'll be bigger. Can't explain (V) as you're outputting a higher resolution than the screen can support.
 
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