The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

There's a time and place for a large TV, and for HD films it pays dividends, but for gaming, I like to be a bit closer to the image, and gorge on pixel count...

 

ha you bet, but you shouldn't sit that close...i need to get my eye checked because i sat too close to my bloody 15" because i can't see WTF is going on in the game...

 

Now hold on and everybody just WAIT A SECOND!!

Are you telling me, estuansis (and sam,) that you can play the hdtvs on 1920x1080 (which is just about 1920x1200). I thought - 1080p was it - 1080 x 1080. So they go widescreen at almost double the vertical pixels? Duhhh! I didn't know that. That's absurdly fantastic!!

Another reason to pick up a 24" wide 1920x1200 LCD monitor where the current state of the art hardware will actually play crysis at everything maxed. Estuansis, tears in your eyes, I don't blame you bro!!

Sorry to be a complete ignoramus regarding HDTVs, but do you have to buy a special widescreen HDTV or are they all widescreen?

On the other hand, in defense of 2560x1600, I really like how you put it Sam - especially the "gorge" part:

You're right, watching it up there on an HDTV like at a movie is not exactly the same as having it on the desktop. Which do you guys think is the more immersive experience approaching real life? Has to be the desktop, right? The TV is more like being at the movies, right? Or am I wrong?

Boozer, how are you going to give a full report on the graphics of Hells Highway from a 360 console??? Do console graphics even pretend to get close to PC graphics????? (sorry if that sounds elitist - LOL)

 

HDTVs work at 1920x1080 resolution if you have a 1080p screen, and all HDTVs are widescreen 16:9, Large PC monitors (22"+) are also all widescreen, but 16:10.

If you have a normal size room, a 30" PC monitor with you sitting near it will be the better experience. If you have room for a giant HDTV though, that will rock your socks off, with a decent speaker system.

 

The better experience. Meaning - more immersive? Or not? Fascinating!

 

More immersive. Sitting up close to a 30" screen leaves very little but it in your view, so you are entirely focused on the screen and not what's around it. A large room with a large HDTV and sitting at a distance makes it very easy to see everything going on and is fabulous for scaling up what you see to almost lifesize, but still clearly seeing the rest of the room around it does detract a little.

 

Sam, my room isn't that large. I don't have space for my TV. So even though it's "my" TV it's not in my room. But yeah, the TV I use is a 55inch, but since I have two xboxes now I have another one hooked up to the 65inch for when I have lots of friends over and we like playing on two consoles.

 

Well that's it then, with a setup like that you'll have to make sacrifices... Wouldn't a 40" 1080p have done?

 

It was on sale

 

Then you should have done what you did with all the others and ebay it to get yourself a nice one...

 

lol Well I was gonna have a party the next day so I decided to keep it. It works out pretty well and I keep it in the living room which is right next to my room. Plus this way when I have lots of people over we have more room because it's the living room.

 

So you have a 55" and a 65" in the living room? That must look ridiculous!

Sorry, even with a topic edit, I've kind of gone off topic... lol

 

Well, I don't know how off-topic you are - you have to watch the results of the graphics on something, so the display is ultra-important.

Let's face it Sam, Boozer's folks are doctors, and he lives in a friggin' mansion - and the livingroom is the size of my whole house. So it doesn't look ridiculous. In addition to that, boozer is the most popular dude in Sanford, and his casual get-togethers with buds means 35 people showing up. LOL

 

Lol! Shame I didn't know him when I last passed through the place...

 

lol the 65" is in my FAMILY room. Thats for US. Living room is for guests.

Oh and we dont live in a Mansion. lol Your house is pretty small. It's good enough for us but it's only like 2000 square feet. My parents dont PRACTICE anymore so we dont make boat loads of cash.

But yeah on our casual get togethers we have like 10-15 people Normally every weekend I have like 4-5 people over. I hate just stayin at home alone.

 

Doctors eh? That's gotta be the life

I have to pay for everything myself, so I tend to only have one of each. One 24" LCD monitor, one 36" CRT TV, one '92 Eagle Talon TSi AWD, but 2 computers, lol.

If it wouldn't cost me out the arse, I would almost be willing to get another UltraSharp 2407WFP and run dual monitors. Heaven knows, the HD4870 can do dual monitors in a lot of games. Supreme Commander mostly though ;P

Yeah, my house is only 2300 sq feet.

Two big screens though? LMFAO

I will never see 2 big screen televisions in this house. It'd be a stretch to see one. My sister's is sweet but it's an el cheapo model. The picture looks fantastic though.

Been playing Gears of War for the PC lately. It's amazing how much better it looks when you crank the res. I thought the Xbox 360 version was pretty unimpressive. But the PC version looks awesome

Yay for high resolution!

 

It WAS the life. Not so much anymore.

 

I tell you, for a nudge over £600, when I'm a bit more affluent, a 40" Samsung 1080p job may end up in my home, wherever I happen to be

 

Some bad news. Warhead does not support crossfire...
That's going to severely curtail frame rates...

However, how much do I believe fraps? At 16-18fps (2560 all gamer) the game is very smooth and playable, now I know no game is playable at that frame rate, even Crysis. All Enthusiast results in 10-13fps according to fraps which does feel laggy as expected, and also looks utterly different, the whole game's even a different colour. I'm a little sceptical Gamer is the analog to all high, it has that dark and dreary feel to it...

 

Hah, boozer, sorry I accused you of the "High life." But I knew you were one popular dude. Yeah I guess my house is about the same size - there's an added sunroom that is big, like 16 x 25 maybe. Pretty nice. It gets frickin cold in the winter. I was just telling somebody we need double pane glass, and while I was talking I looked, and IT IS double pane glass. So must be some type of cheapee.

Hey estuansis, your sister's HD - is it LCD, plasma, etc. You mentioned it wasn't super expensive, but I like how you were blown away by the detail so it must be reasonably good. I know you guys have lots of threads on HD - but just real quick - what's the 600 quid model you were talking about Sam - is it backlit LCD, or what?

Sam - you got Warhead! Great! You just said that fraps says you're not taking advantage of the x2 part of your board, but your game play indicates something better. Are you not having at least as good a game play as with regular crysis??