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carrera d'olbani wrote:
> What is the best resolution to play Half-Life 2 (including
> Deathmatch) ? Is 1440x900 enough to see the enemies at a distance ? I
> am currently using a 16" LCD monitor with the resolution 1680x1050,
> and I cannot complain. I consider to get another monitor cheaply, and
> the 19" LG L194WT (withe the resolution 1440x900) would sit just at
> the edge of my computer table. I could get a 20" model with the
> resolution 1680x1050, but I am afraid that I have to put it too far
> from me so that it wouldn't fit on the table. What would people say ?

I didn't know you could get 16" LCD monitors that can do 1680x1050. If 
so the pixels must be pretty damn small.

I use a 20" LCD at 1680x1050, and I can tell you there's absolutely no 
need to put it any further back than a normal monitor. The whole point 
of widescreen is so you can utilize your peripheral vision - you cannot 
do this if the monitor is far away.

For fastest screen play/redraw.

No matter what kind of monitor you use (LCD or CRT) for the fastest
screen redraw, reduce your color depth.

How to: in WinXP
Open "Display" in Control panel.
Click on "Setting" Tab.
In "Color Quality" reduce to "Medium (16 bit)
Click "Apply"

Results: Twice as fast screen results, due to less processing power
needed. Also helpful for those who don't wish to buy a faster video
card. Anyone that claims they need or 32 bit color is better, needs to
clean their crack pipe, because the human eye cant distinguish a
difference, its physically impossible.

"carrera d'olbani" <dolbani@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:1183200664.559200.222510@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> What is the best resolution to play Half-Life 2 (including
> Deathmatch) ? Is 1440x900 enough to see the enemies at a distance ? I
> am currently using a 16" LCD monitor with the resolution 1680x1050,
> and I cannot complain. I consider to get another monitor cheaply, and
> the 19" LG L194WT (withe the resolution 1440x900) would sit just at
> the edge of my computer table. I could get a 20" model with the
> resolution 1680x1050, but I am afraid that I have to put it too far
> from me so that it wouldn't fit on the table. What would people say ?
>

With what I do in photography and 3D stuff, I use two Samsung 204B 20.1" LCD 
flatpanel displays side by side.  The desk my rig, pair of monitors and 
flatbed scanner reside on is 6 1/2 feet long and 3feet deep.  Monitors are 
both plugged into one of my two 7800GTX 256 meg cards on the DVI ports, and 
both run in native resolution of 1600 x 1200 - 32 bit depth.
When gaming, I've long since left off using SLI mode as it fouls everything 
up on the desktop when coming out of SLI.  I should pull one 7800GTX out and 
run the PCI-e 0 slot at 16x.  The bottom card isn't doing anything now 
anyway.

SO FAR;  running all the games at 1600x1200 full screen 32 bit looks really 
nice.  HL2 (and mods), HL2 Deathmatch look great and play very smooth.  I 
have all the eye candy on and maxed, this is the Options recommended 
settings for my rig.
The rest of your rig will help determine just how smooth the game will play 
for you.  This rig is a A64 X2 4800+ in a GA K8 N SLI mobo, 2 gigs pc3200 
ram, several 160 gig hd's.  The HL2 vid stress test put the framerates in 
the 70's with just one vid card, and in the high 90's with SLI enabled. 
This is at 1600x1200 resolution.
McG. 

SpokaneRGH wrote:
> 
> For fastest screen play/redraw.
> 
> No matter what kind of monitor you use (LCD or CRT) for the fastest
> screen redraw, reduce your color depth.
> 
> How to: in WinXP
> Open "Display" in Control panel.
> Click on "Setting" Tab.
> In "Color Quality" reduce to "Medium (16 bit)
> Click "Apply"
> 
> Results: Twice as fast screen results, due to less processing power
> needed.

That won't do anything, because Half-Life 2 doesn't use the windows XP 
display settings, it has its own video card configuration screen. 
Modifying the HL2 settings might on the other hand.


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Ben Cottrell AKA Bench