Do higher resolutions cripple gaming?

Just wondering, I originally had a WSXGA+ 15.4", is the WUXGA going to mess with games? Actually, its not even WUXGA, on the new HP HDX16t, its 1920x1080p i believe, so how does that do for gaming resolution? Don't know too much about resolution, just that the bigger number, the smaller things are.

 

Higher resolution = higher detail = slower performance

Better graphic cards can handle high resolutions on higher detail settings.

It all really depends on what games you are playing, what graphic card you have and what detail settings you will be using.

A higher resolution will mean you can fit more onto a screen. (Good for excel, word, web-browsing, video/music editing, etc)

 

When gaming, I would imagine that most of the time you are NOT playing at native resolution. I wouldn't worry about it.

I regularly play games at 1680x1050 or even 1440x900 on my 1920x1200 monitor.

 

^ That's good reassurance Greg. Curious though, on my previous dv5t, WC3 only reached to certain resolution. I went to the registry and put in my native 1680x1050 as i was told to do so asking in a thread here... It stopped everything from moving around every time i alt tabbed/exited out of WC3. What did that do i'm curious..

Darbyjack, i'm not really playing anything too intensive like crysis... starcraft 2 and diablo 3 only real things i'm planning to play on it. The graphics card from HP is 9600M GT... so most likely that one. Yeah, I want higher resolution for more viewing space. I swapped from WXGA to WSXGA and it was a great swap.

 

some resolutions might not be supported by an older game like that chango.

 

Super high resolutions like that may make text and other things look really small on a 15 incher.

I've got a 17 inch laptop and play Call of Duty 4 on it in both 1920 x 1200 and in 1280 x 800. Looks really good either way. If you don't obsess about what you might be missing, you will probably be happy at much lower resolutions than a lot of people insist on having.