About Asus A8JS

I decided to buy an A8JS. However I have a concern about the screen resolution. The native resolution is 1440x900 which is a little bit high for gaming (high quality settings). Do the games look crappy in a non-native resolution (like 1280x800)? I know that windows do not look good. And I am sorry if this is not the right place to post.

Thanks,
Yenal

 

move to the asus forum

 

The only game I've played on my A8Js is Civ 4. It plays just fine on highest settings in 1440x900, but I've also tried other resolutions, and there was very little difference in picture quality. I would have had no problem playing in a lower resolution if it meant that the game would be faster, but as it is, it's just fine in 1440x900. You're right though, Windows looks like crap in anything but native!

 

Don't a lot of games offered "windowed" mode, so you can play at a lower resolution without doing any pixel management or "interpolation"? on my XPS I played WoW in 1600 x 1050 windowed and it I like it a lot. I'm no expert, but I think between windowed or command line resolution settings you can get it to a res that looks good for your native resolution and/or aspect ratio.

-Ryan

 

Thanks for the tips. I still could not decide about getting this laptop.

 

If no one has replied to your question by this weekend, I'll try out a game at a lower res and see if I think its acceptable and post here.

 

There are less pixels on the screen then a 1280x1024 desktop screen - I think it should handle most things on native resolution.