Whats the advantage playing at a high resolution?

[coughs]

I was just wondering whats the advantage playing at a such high resolution?


I heard professional gamers still play at 800x600

 

[doodah]

*800x600

The higher the resolution, the less aliasing will be seen on edges etc (also sharper textures) etc. I am sure someone with a much more detailed/technical answer will come along

 

[starfighter]

It means you can see more. You actually see more of the "world" so higher the better.

800x600 is crap but apparently better for old dodgy games like Quake3. Some weird bug in the engine.

Ideally you want to use the same resolution as your monitor on an LCD screen.

 

[incubation]

Textures look better, the jaggies are gone, eveything generally looks better providing your PC can handle it at a decent framerate of course, and then theres multi monitor setups which open up much more field of vision.

 

[Tefal]

I was just wondering whats the advantage playing at a such high resolution?


I heard professional gamers still play at 800x600

it doesn't look like **** and means you can sue a bigger screen without it looking bad.

 

[Sone]

professional gamers would play naked if it made them better. I remember when per pixel hit boxes first came out there were rumours lower res made the hit box a bit bigger

 

[britboy4321]

Indeed I saw a professional battlefield2 player at a games convention.

He had turned every single graphic down to the lowest possible, all effects he could off etc.

Just made seeing the opposition easier and got rid of 'clutter' the brain doesn't need to see. At that level it's basically the buildings look like cubes, and '4 polygon' soldiers run around. Makes all the important information crystal clear to pick up on (and pushes update to 200fps!).

Of course the game looked ruddy awful - but for the professional they're not there to enjoy the eye candy. We are!

 

[Infam0us]

I play a few games competitively and turn down graphics settings so you can see enemy easier. Quite commonly done.

 

[FabienO]

I only turn down resolution to record.

Some games actually show more screen with a larger resolution.

Subspace/Continuum <being an example. 2560x1600 in there helps a lot. to the point that some zones have a resolution limit.

 

[PapaLazaru]

As has been posted above. A lot of pro's turn all the settings down to stop any clutter. A friend of mine used to do this for clan matches on BF2 and swore by it.

A pro gamer is playing to win.

People like me are playing to win, but also to immerse themselves in the game as well. Crank up the graphics as high as you rig will allow I say.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

professional gamers would play naked if it made them better. I remember when per pixel hit boxes first came out there were rumours lower res made the hit box a bit bigger

Too true.

I also remember when gamers would adjust their FOV to see all around them

 

[Cooper]

Indeed I saw a professional battlefield2 player at a games convention.

He had turned every single graphic down to the lowest possible, all effects he could off etc.

Yeah, turn off all the dynamic lights and geometry in BF2 and its a lot easier to see other players...

I learned this when i played BF2 on a crappy laptop that couldnt run it at my usual 'maxed out' settings...

Im sure a lot of the people who you meet online and always seem to get the higher scores are using this to their advantage....

 

[platypus]

The 800x600 thing is from Quake and Counter-Strike, iirc, where due to the engine it gave you the highest framerate.

 

[Hudzy]

I never saw the point in playing the damn game if you're turning most of it off anyway. To me, smoke, grass, whatever else gets turned off, is part of the game to be used. Turning them off is pretty similar to wall hacking in spirit, just without the usual definition of cheating.

 

[cplhardnut]

yep ive played on 800x600 res on cs and css since years i doubt i could play on higher res now

 

[kylew]

professional gamers would play naked if they thought it made them better. I remember when per pixel hit boxes first came out there were rumours lower res made the hit box a bit bigger

Fixed!

 

[kylew]

As has been posted above. A lot of pros turn all the settings down to stop any clutter. A friend of mine used to do this for clan matches on BF2 and swore by it.

People like this are so pathetic.

 

[craptakular]

Indeed I saw a professional battlefield2 player at a games convention.

He had turned every single graphic down to the lowest possible, all effects he could off etc.

Just made seeing the opposition easier and got rid of 'clutter' the brain doesn't need to see. At that level it's basically the buildings look like cubes, and '4 polygon' soldiers run around. Makes all the important information crystal clear to pick up on (and pushes update to 200fps!).

Of course the game looked ruddy awful - but for the professional they're not there to enjoy the eye candy. We are!

I would argue that is cheating. The game was developed with all the eye candy and sounds etc, it should be played like that...

 

[Thunderbolt]

I played San Andreas recently and there are some missions that were seemingly impossible, so with a bit of googling I found that they are in fact impossible at higher resolutions.

 

[KNiVES]

I would argue that is cheating. The game was developed with all the eye candy and sounds etc, it should be played like that...

It's generally accepted that low settings in tournaments are the standard de facto configurations, and that those who turn them up are mugs who set themselves at a disadvantage. Low settings are the norm.