Mochan
01-04-2006, 07:08 AM
If you are still dawdling about on what monitor to get, I think I can recommend LCDs again. Previously I was whining about how the pixel interpolation was bad when displaying things on non-native resolutions.
Well guess what, that was because I was using monitor scaling. I did some further research and apparently if your monitor isn't topnotch its scaling is usually bad. So instead you switch to Display Adapter scaling and have the GPU scale the image to the native res. This does put in a slight performance hit (very slight... with monitor scaling I got 74fps in Aquamark but with display adapter scaling I got 73fps) but the resulting picture quality is a LOT better. It's not quite as sharp as displaying on native res but it is acceptable enough even by my standards, and it helps get rid of performance hits for running extremely high resolutions.
If you already got your CRT monitor, well, then forget you read this thread. :)
Well guess what, that was because I was using monitor scaling. I did some further research and apparently if your monitor isn't topnotch its scaling is usually bad. So instead you switch to Display Adapter scaling and have the GPU scale the image to the native res. This does put in a slight performance hit (very slight... with monitor scaling I got 74fps in Aquamark but with display adapter scaling I got 73fps) but the resulting picture quality is a LOT better. It's not quite as sharp as displaying on native res but it is acceptable enough even by my standards, and it helps get rid of performance hits for running extremely high resolutions.
If you already got your CRT monitor, well, then forget you read this thread. :)