Problems with higher resolution and gaming.

GrimmFC9990 · 3 Nov 2010 at 11:35

Ok, so I was a little unsure where to put this but here goes. I bought a new monitor a 22'' Samsung P2270HD for my computer. So I decided to run a few of my games on higher resolutions. Now, I previously ran games on my old monitor on a max resolution of 1280x1024, and mostly all games ran very very good. I ran Crysis on 1920x1080 on max and high settings with my new monitor, and it runs as it usually did. But some other games I have - Mass Effect 1, Medal of Honor, Half-Life to name a few - have been running slow on higher resolutions such as 1920x1080, and I have to set the resolution to around 1024x768 or lower to make them playable.

I have an Intel Core i5 750 CPU running at 2.67gHz; an Ati Radeon HD 5750 1024MB graphics card; and I have 8GB of RAM. I have the monitor hooked up via a normal VGA cable (the blue one). I've tried using a HDMI cable, from the port on my gfx card, to the port on the monitor, but it just does the same. So what could the problem be? All drivers are up-to-date, and all software is updated as well. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Plus, I do apologise if I've put this in the wrong topic area.

GrimmFC9990 · 3 Nov 2010 at 11:53

thought it might've been the gfx card; I am going to buy a new GFX card soon. its the newest Medal of Honor I'm talking about, and Half Life 2 Episode 1.

GrimmFC9990 · 3 Nov 2010 at 11:54

Porcelina said:
As PCM2 said, your graphics card is really out of place with the rest of your system. It seems very likely that you see differences due to the architecture of your card; when it becomes dependent on pure GPU power it will struggle no matter what else is going on.

I do not really understand how it will play Crysis on max, unless 'it runs as it usually did' means that it did not run very smoothly at all.

yeah not very smoothly at all to be honest, but it is playable though. it runs smooth on high settings.

so the problem is the GFX card then.

GrimmFC9990 · 3 Nov 2010 at 23:20

thanks for all your suggestions. shame that my new monitor is causing my gaming to go slow - well perhaps not my monitor rather my graphics card, but if it hadnt been for the new monitor, then my gaming would've been fine on my old one lol. I will probably get a new graphics card in the next month or so, and hopefully I should be able to notice a difference some time in the future.

once again thank you all!