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Poll: What resolution do you game at?

What resolution do you game at?

  • 1024 x 768

    Votes: 4 0.7%

  • 1152 x 864

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 1280 x 720

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • 1280 x 768

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 1280 x 800

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • 1280 x 960

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • 1280 x 1024

    Votes: 10 1.7%

  • 1360 x 768

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • 1366 x 768

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • 1440 x 900

    Votes: 7 1.2%

  • 1600 x 900

    Votes: 5 0.8%

  • 1600 x 1200

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • 1680 x 1050

    Votes: 57 9.5%

  • 1920 x 1080

    Votes: 261 43.4%

  • 1920 x 1200

    Votes: 139 23.1%

  • 2560 x 1440

    Votes: 51 8.5%

  • 2560 x 1600

    Votes: 32 5.3%

  • Multi monitors (eyefinity/nvidia surround)

    Votes: 30 5.0%
  • Total voters
    602
Armadillo said:
1280x960

Not getting rid of my diamond pro crt until I get either a FW900 or they start putting out gaming OLED monitors.
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Good luck finding a decent CRT in good condition these days. And affordable OLED monitors won't be out within the next few years to come and the first to hit the market won't be without problems.
 
Mr Krugga said:
Good luck finding a decent CRT in good condition these days. And affordable OLED monitors won't be out within the next few years to come and the first to hit the market won't be without problems.
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Well hopefully this one has enough life in it too see me through until they are out. Only a year old, got it new, still in it's box from auction site :). One I had before sadly failed :(.

I still hold out hope for a FW900 to come my way in decent condition or for one of the LCD manufacturers to make a LCD that matches for gaming.

At the moment, in general it seems to be a compromise. Either no input lag and great response, but picture and colours not so great, due to lack of processing and viewing angles crap due to the panel they use, or the opposite, input lag and response in exchange for colours, picture quality and viewing angles. I don't think it's a lot to ask for the new tech to better than the old in at least most areas.
 
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Surveyor said:
Did you expect anything else?
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Not really no, but I think a few people were still under the impression that a lot of us were still using CRTs and/or still on 4:3 aspect ratio monitors. For example this guy here;

ICDP said:
I said most, not all. Even now 1280x1024 is more popular than 1080p let alone 1440p. Most people just use the monitor their PC came with for gaming. Before Crysis was released I bought a 1440x900 monitor and my mates thought I was crazy investing in a, "widescreen" monitor as no games supported them. They all had 1024x768 or 1280x1024 for their "gaming" rigs. As Ch3m1c4L states 1440p is very niche right now, I would add that in 2007 1920x1080 was also niche. A mainstream gaming rig running 1024x768 with a 9800GT was lucky getting mid 20s FPS in Crysis at medium settings when it was released. A HD 6950 or GTX 560ti would murder Crysis on high at that resolution, easily reaching 60 FPS.

It will be a few years before we get to the stage where top end GPUs run all games at 60 FPS with ultra high graphics settings at 1440p.
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I was intrigued to find out exactly what proportion of the OcUK community were still running older, lower resolution monitors. :)
 
2560 x 1440

I never thought that my res or even 1080p would be classed as extreme resolution. Before this thread i thought of 1080p to be quite standard and my res to be a bit above average.
What i class as extreme is more than one monitor, but going by steam and what you lot are saying most people are still on 4 year old res.
 
2560 x 1600 here on my gaming monitor , also linked up beside it as a 1920 x 1080 monitor for browsing / movie watching while gaming on the other monitor ( obviously when playing slow paced games like football manager etc , not fps games )
 
1920x1200. Have been at this res with a 24" display for nearly 4 years, no reason to reason to change still, did add a 42" 1080p TV though.
 
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