Xbox360 Resolution?

Ice Rich · 3 Oct 2008 at 12:33

Hi all,

I've owned a 360 for awhile now and although enjoy it I have not played it that much and still feel 'new' to it.

I game on my 19" monitor so select a resolution of 1280. Does this have any negative effects on gaming? I.e the higher res I select on my pc, the fps goes down.
Also, what are the 'reference levels' in the settings?

Thanks,

ShakenNstirred · 3 Oct 2008 at 13:23

if its a 19in TFT just run it at its native res

Demon · 3 Oct 2008 at 13:46

The short answer is no..

The 360 works differently to PC's, it renders the game internally at a fixed resolution (normally around 1280 * 720, and differs game to game), it then hardware scales this to your 'output resolution' so even if you have the 360 set to 1920*1080 on a HDTV/Monitor, the game itself is still only rendered at the lower internal resolution..

Err.. OK, maybe it's not very clear..

Minstadave · 3 Oct 2008 at 13:53

The resolution you set only applies to the dashboard I think, the games all play at a set res.

ic1male · 3 Oct 2008 at 14:02

The Xbox has a specialized hardware scaler which can scale the internal rendering frame buffer (1280x720) up and down to all manner of resolutions. Even more are coming with the NXE.