HELP Question about 1440x900 Resolution for gaming

I have been waiting for the LED screen to come out for the m1530, but I never see any games supporting that resolution natively. Anyone know why this is, I may just end up using the 1680x1050 for gaming instead...

 

that's good question, but i notice the graphics looks better when I ran the game in that resolution as oppose to the one I have now.......but that's just my opinion. The 1680x1050 was the best on a 1520, but I don't know how each would look on a xps 1530

 

No I mean whenever I look at a games resolutions it supports natively, it never lists 1440x900. The closest thing is always like 1368x768.

 

yeah, i never seen that other natively either but I am no expert on this. I am a new pc gamer

 

Any game that supports widescreen (16:10) is going to have 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, and 2560x1600 all selectable depending on your monitor.

Don't worry about it.

 

As Soulburner pointed out, most new games (and some older games) have support for 16:10 widescreen (ie the resolutions mentioned above).

 

Yes new games like NFS Pro Street support widescreen resolutions.... But remember that the higher res you have the more processing is required by your CPU and GPU....

 

ya thats why i'm having trouble figuring out which one to get, I just don't know when the LED screen will come out........

 

1280 by 800 and you'll thank me later when you're cranking games with smooth gameplay..

 

Dang, I JUST ordered the XPS M1530 with 1440x900. Are you saying I will suffer tremendously because of the higher res?

What if I play the game instead at 1280x800, what issue I would have if my Dell Native Resolution is higher?

 

Zero problems. I think 1440x900 is pushing it as it is with a mediocre card like the 8600. Don't get m wrong it throws some great performance out for being a 'budget' GPU solution.

But that 128bit memory/chip, chokes it like mad at higher resolutions.

You can play at lower resolutions - personally I think it looks gross. lol

The 1530 has DDR3 memory so it might not feel the burn so bad.

 

you won't suffer tremendously, just wont perform as smooth

 

Nothing really, but try using a 1280x800 image and set it as your fullscreen wallpaper. See how it looks like.

Scaling down res for full screen gaming isn't exactly pretty, but hey, it's performance that counts

"Suffering tremendously" would be gaming on the XPS 1530 on native resolution, as it would be hard to play newer games on the 8600M GT at 1440x900. But as I mentioned, you can always scale down.

Also, most newer games support widescreen resolutions by default. Even if they don't, maybe you can just manually edit some config file or whatnot. There are different methods to do that for different games though.

Merry Christmas!

 

Most games scale pretty well anyways. You won't notice a huge difference from scaling down to 1280x800, and another person running at 1280x800 native.

 

Maybe with some people.. But to me it's like running the game at low graphics settings.. that's what it looks like to me LOL

 

I guess it depends what you're playing. Text usually looks the worst when scaled down, and so do things that don't move (HUD, etc). However, I usually play FPS games where there is a lot of movement and it's not too bad then. Yes, it's noticeable, but not to the point where I wouldn't get the higher res screen.

 

Games scaled down really aren't a problem, my native is 1920x1200 and I lower it to 1400x900 without problems.

Even Windows looks fine at the lower resolution.

 

Uhh no. Check my sig...all benchmarks done (except 3DM06) at native 1440x900, even Crysis.

It even plays HL2 and Doom 3 at max fps with details on High (Vsync On).

 

When scaling down from 1440x900 to 1280x800 you wont see much of a difference.... I usually play games at 1024x768 stretched on my 1440x900 and the games dont look bad at all when played

 

You can set to many different resolutions for the game. You are not stuck.

 

Thanks for the info, guys! I checked out my friend E1505 which have high resolution and tried BF2, Far Cry, and BF2142 and 1280x800 (lower than the native resolution) and it really doesn't look bad at all. In fact, it looks good still.

Of course, when the Windows resolution is lowered, it looks ugly. But I'll be using 1440x900 for Windows and 1280x800 for games.

 

Good choice