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Screen Resolution

by Brock Ferguson · in General Discussion · 08/16/2001 (9:02 am) · 3 replies

Hey, I am trying to get a handle on what percent use what screen resolution so I can handle my graphics better. It would help if you guys quickly posted yours here, thanks.

-Brock
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Torque Owner Josh Albrecht
#1
08/16/2001 (4:49 pm)
I always play on the highest sesolution with 16-bit color that I can get, and still have 30 to 40 frames a second. This means 1600 x 1200 for Half Life, and 1074 x Something for tribes II. It really depends on slow the game is.

Associate Logan Foster
perPixel Studios
#2
08/16/2001 (5:03 pm)
Well when I work on my computer (which is 95% of my computer use) I am usually at 1280x1024 resolution at 32bit color. For games I usually run between 800x600 and 1024x768 in 32bit color (I just love my alpha channels), its not that my system couldn't handle a higher resolution, just that I feel that its not necessary to do anything higher.

Personally I say aim for the standard resolution that web designers use which is 800x600 resolution as this will pretty much guarentee it working on all systems. Most computer users find this resolution comfortable, anything else is just icing on the cake.

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Brock Ferguson
#3
08/16/2001 (5:17 pm)
Thanks guys. I just added some code to the site so that it wouldn't matter what resolution was being used :)

-Brock