What screen resolution do you use?

[DJ Leon]

1280x1024

Higher or lower don't seem right.

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

1280 x 1024

 

[Grendel]

My work computer is 1024 * 768, as is my laptop. My main desktop PC at home is at 1600 * 1280.

 

[surrey jim]

You sure?

Most 19inch TFTs are 1280x1024 or 1440x900 if widescreen.

Try changing your windows resolution to match for best results...

cheers, will speak to IT guys, im not priviliged enough to fiddle with that type of thing

 

[Wozza]

Thanks guys. Keep 'em coming. Could do with 100 responses realluy.

 

[JJ McClure]

Work PC is 1024 x 768 as the application we use is designed to work with that setting. tends to piss off the "older" users who claim they can read it, but if you change it to 800 x 600 then it doesn't fit.

 

[Starry]

No idea, how do I find out? lol

 

[Wozza]

If you don't know/are a non-techie, right click on your Windows DESKTOP, select properties, then Settings. The slider bar should tell you.

 

[Starry]

Sorry, I should have said I'm on a mac.

I google and found how and it's 1024 by 768

 

[perseus]

I need the information as well. I might have to change the web design for the new year!

I voted for the old standard 800 x 600. This will not be become obsolete as anybody with poor eyesight (anybody over 50) is likely to have about a 50% chance (my guess) of not be able to read the smaller print on the higher resolution monitors. Like me, I cannot use the higher resolution as standard any more. I cannot read the cooking instructions on the back of packet grub either.

They/I could change the Text Size but this is not the best practical solution (?). Web pages designed for 800 x 600 do not look very good on the now usual 1024 x 768.

I am still using the old bulky Monitors (upped the refresh rate to help my eyes) and I probably will until smoke starts coming out the back.

PS: Working old style 15" monitors will be going down the tip after Christmas so if anybody in Shoreham wants one or two?

Surely, this information will be on a web page somewhere?

 

[The Oldman]

I'm at 1024x768 on a 17" flat screen. Should I go up to 1280x1024 and would that decrease FPS in games?

 

[Scotty Mac]

1024

 

[Trufflehound]

4x2. It's wooden, but good for keeping the flies off.

 

[Raphael Meade]

1152x864, 17" crt.

 

[Cian]

Sorry, I should have said I'm on a mac.

I google and found how and it's 1024 by 768

Apple Menu, System Preferences, Displays for anyone else on a Mac that can't find out/doesn't know

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

1024x768

 

[The Great Cornholio]

4x2. It's wooden, but good for keeping the flies off.

Not as surreal as you may think. I learnt about this on my OU course.

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html

 

[Ccider]

I'm at 1024x768 on a 17" flat screen. Should I go up to 1280x1024 and would that decrease FPS in games?

TFTs are inherently digital devices and they have a "natural" resolution corresponding to the number of pixels they are made from. However most PCs output an analog signal so the TFT converts the analog back to digital so if you output a 1024x768 analog signal it will get "stretched" for display on a 1280x1024 TFT. You will get a better visual quality by outputting 1280x1024.

Depends on your graphics chip if this affects games.

Hopefully PCs and TFTs will soon be connected by DVI-D (digital) cables and this analog nonense will disappear.

 

[Cian]

Hopefully PCs and TFTs will soon be connected by DVI-D (digital) cables and this analog nonense will disappear.

It was going that way till the EU said anything with a DVI socket was a "High Definition-ready TV" and slapped a duty on them. My brand new TFT hasn't even got a DVI socket as a result

 

[perseus]

In order to read the standard 1028 on my old 17" Monitor, I would need special spectacles! Just tried the change. I can increase the text size, but this is no good for typing the reply.

PS: for the technical whizz-kids: what is the future of TV. Will we get it through Broadband, or cable, or do we still need an aerial on the roof?

I am throwing out all my vinyl records when I can find a lorry.