WUXGA or less?

I am purchasing a Dell 6000 and will be using it primarily for web surfing and light gaming. I was going to order the WUXGA becuase I thought it would allow for better DVD viewing. My understanding is that i can turn down the resolution to XGA when I want to play some games. Is this in fact true.

Thanks

 

Yes...obviously most people can't play advanced games at WUXGA res on their notebooks. Consider all the machines out there with lower than average GPU's.

The game resolution is independent of the windows resolution.

However, it of course looks best at whatever is the screen's native resolution(which also is the max resolution).

That said...my screen is WXGA. I personally preferred the lower res on my 17" screen(WUXGA creates too small of text for my tastes). However, games like BF2, I have to run at a lower res. It doesn't look bad at all since it's not at native...I just know that beyond looking better due to the higher resolution at WXGA, the picture would be even crisper too. But it's not anything horrible or noticeable for most people.

 

Thx.

To sound totally incompetant, I could also turn my windows resolution down to WXGA as well if I wanted to correct?

My concern is if I get the WUXGA and don't like it that I can still always just run everything as an WXGA.

Thanks again!

 

You can do it...but that's the crux. At less than the native resolution, it's not as crisp an image. So if you turned it down to the lower res in Windows...your text won't look as good. In games it's not such a big deal because you aren't reading lots of text or anything. If you're viewing a page in Firefox or Writer, it might not look so good. Same with a program like photoshop. It may or may not be unacceptable to you.

You should go to a local store and check out the different displays and figure out what you like for the size of screen you're gonna get.

 

What these guys are trying to say is that the screen will look like something is off or wrong with it to be a little dramatic in my explanation.

It will look like a picture that is blown up but just quite can't get to a certain size because it will distort the image.

Get it?

So you can't just run it at a lower resolution without it looking a bit off.

I say you will be fine with a WSXGA+ like I have if you want a high res' but can game on it too.

Cheers,
Mike

 

If you want to be able to play most games at native resolution, your only bet is XGA. Not WXGA, because most games don't do widescreen and they will stretch and suck.

But who wants to work with XGA?

So just get the resolution which is comfortable for work, and play games at whatever resolution you can that makes for a combination of optimal looks and performance.