Gaming on a big HDTV

[Project86]

For those of you who game (or just use your PC but I'd assume you would game a little) on a 32"+ LCD/plasma, or a big DLP/LCD projection/LCoS, what res do you set your games at? Do you try and find the closest match to the TV's native res, so it doesn't have to do much up or down converting? Or do you crank it up as high as you possibly can for maximum possible quality? And how does the aspect ratio issue play out... it's not a problem where you need black bars or anything right?

 

[SynthDude2001]

I've only had experience playing on a 720p LCD rear projection...the Nvidia drivers can compensate for overscan, so the actual resolution ends up being something like 1152x664. Looks great, I can run everything (except probably for FEAR) at 60fps all the time, since that resolution is quite a bit lower than the 1680x1050 native of my computer LCD.

I've used 1080i before, but unless the TV is 1080i/1080p native, it's kinda a waste IMO. Matching (or trying to match) the TV's native resolution would generally be ideal (unless your video card can't handle it).

And yeah, most games can be run in a 16:9 aspect ratio just fine, so no black letterboxing bars appear.

 

[Todd33]

1920x1080 or 1368x768

 

[imported_ST]

1920x1080

 

[Todd33]

Originally posted by: ST
1920x1080

LOL, We have the same monitor, almost the same case and I was using those Sony speakers until I moved to a smaller space.

 

[bdoople]

Druids FTW!

 

[DaveBC]

Originally posted by: Todd33
1920x1080 or 1368x768

ditto