higher screen resoultion = sharper texture, more details, and overall better quality?

this is a newbie question, but does higher screen resolution mean that the graphics would be overall better than a lower resolution? i've heard some people say that higher resoultions overall just makes the words smaller and you have more things to see on screen. While others say that higher screen resolutions produce more texture and quality in gaming graphics.

 

yes higher res will give you better quality in gaming graphics.

 

Yes, alot better but you need the graphics card to backit up if your planning on running high end games e.t.c

 

soo im currently using wsxga+ (1600xXXXX) and i was wondering if i switched over to wuxga (1900xXXXX) would their be a world of a difference or is their just a minor difference.


btw thnx for the quick replies

 

ohh yea keep in mind that this is a 17" screen using 9800mGTS

 

I use both 1680x1050 (laptop) and 1920x1200 (desktop) on a daily basis. There is definitely a difference - WUXGA has almost 23% more pixels. The increase in vertical resolution is most noticeable - the extra 150 pixels (a 12% improvement) is valuable for surfing the net, Excel spreadsheets, and anything involving vertical resolution.

For me, higher resolutions = higher productivity. I strongly recommend getting as high of a resolution as you can.

 

Agreed, I always think it is weird that some people prefer to buy good laptops and opt for low resolutions, like 1440x900.

 

Note that more pixels also usually means lower FPS when you use that resolution...

As the above posters said, more pixels does indeed increase the detail... but gaming at 1680x1050 or 1920x1200 will result in lower and sometimes unplayable frame rates for recent games unless you are running an enthusiast-level GPU. For 1920x1200, odds are you are talking SLI or crossfire enabled GPUs for decent frame rates.

The reason for the lower resolution displays is the following:
-Cost
-Playable frame rates with single-GPU solutions
-Display size

Honestly, 15" screens at 1680x1050 or 1920x1200 are overkill IMHO, 17" looks very good at 1680x1050 or 1440x900, but 1920x1200 works.


About productivity... if you get a internal screen that is smaller, you can always add an external if you need it.

Mine is only 1366x768, and works fine next to my 1050x1680 rotated 24" LCD for work.

Note Ary, not everyone has the budget you do for an SLI 1920x1200 laptop...

 

i am perfectly satisfied with 1440x900, a 9800GTS is NOT powerful enough to run new games at anything higher with a good fps; if you have an 8800GTX SLI setup thats a different story

EDIT: i also run my desktop at 1024x640 on a 17" screen and would NOT go any higher

 

Using anisotropic filtering improve the textures quality quite a bit too...

 

Agreed 10char

 

what? I'm sorry but I find that hard to imagine. why do u run a non-native lowres on a 17'' screen? it must look terrible!

 

just to Clearify, i agreed on the first part , anyways, if he is talking about a CRT monitor, then it wont make that difference.

 

17'' crt should support 1024*768 or 1280*1024, why a 16:10 ratio res?

 

how can you survive with such dismal resoltions?

 

just do what i do, connect your notebook to a 1080ptv

 

Well my laptop (5930G) came with 1280x800 resolution.
I find it quite adequate for most of the things I do ... especially gaming.
True that a higher resolution would be nice ... mostly when surfing the net or working in 3ds Max to get a larger overview of the working area ... but it's not overly essential.

For now this is just fine ... but in the future I will of course opt to get a higher res laptop screen that has a dedicated gpu capable of running games and 3ds Max at native res with decent FPS.

 

Once you've seen 1680x1050 on a 15.4" LCD, you can't unsee it. It's too nice.

 

+1
screen res is one thing you can't downgrade on. it just grows on to u.

 

Then the trik is perhaps NOT to upgrade! lol XD

No seriously, it's a matter of taste. I have 1600x1200 on my desktop CRT and 1200x800 on my old laptop and I don't find it horrendously disturbing to look at my laptop screen lol (granted, one is 19" and the other is 14.1" though lol XD)

 

Stick with the lower resolution screen. The 9800M GTS will not be able to play many recent games at 1920x1200 with decent settings. I would rather play something at higher details at a lower resolution than lower details at a higher resolution. And non-native resolution looks terrible.

 

I agree that when it comes to gaming, go to the highest resolution your comp allows you, with the other eye-candy features maxed or near max.

in non-gaming related use, I don't like to use higher resolutions. My eyes feel confortable with bigger font and icon sizes (and I'm not vision impaired).

In my notebook, this usually translates to 1360X768 (also the resolution of the 720p 32" TV I use as external monitor).