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Xelloss on 06 January 2010
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Vetteman94 said:
Xelloss said:
vlad321 said:
gameover said:

Full HD means 1080p and it's a widescreen 16:9 display

1920x1200 is not Full HD.. it's capable but is it doesn't meet the widescreen standard..  it's 16:10

i would avoid a screen like that (although i have one but i would not buy again) for gaming because i don't like to have borders on top and bottom while playing a 1080p game... stick with 1920x1080 dipsplays

btw my LG monitor has a HD ready sticker although its 1920x1200..  even if a monitor has a higher resolution it cant be called full hd..

I have never had a game play with black bars on the monitor when it runs on 1920x1200 to be honest. I've been looking fo these mostly because after I got used to a 1920x1200 the 1080s look kind of funny and small vertical-wise. Also playing even WoW on a 1200 over a 1080 shows some differences (the spell icons look a bit more hand drawn).

Are you sure you are referring to different monitors, not just different res settings on the same monitor?

LCD monitors have a native resolution, and aspect ratio.. if you force a deviation frm this in your settings, your results will always suck.

IE: You can run 1920x1080 on a 1920x1200 monitor, but its going to look like shit. There are plenty of example, but always stick to native res for best results. Even worse than simply being in wrong res, is being in wrong aspect ratio. Running 16:10 on a 16:9 and vice versa will always look like shit. Some game engines do not run natively on both aspect ratios though. Not sure about WoW but im thinking you either were trying different resses on the same monitor, or have something setup incorrectly.

I've run a 16:9 and 16:10 side by side quite a bit, there really is no difference in quality. An extra 120 pixels really doesnt matter for overall quality, it only matter if you are trying to display something that thinks it has those 120 pixels.

 

You mean an extra 120 lines with 1920 pixels in each one, which is 230,400 more pixels.   And it is a significant difference if the source is 1920x1200.   If the source was only 1920x1080,  it wouldnt look any different on either monitor.

 Incorrect, if source does not match monitor aspect ratio it has to be scaled, and does not look right. The number of pixels difference sounds impressive on paper, but is really not much of a difference in practice, not enough to be noticable in the slightest. Scaling 16:10 to 16:9 looks like crap to the discernign viewer, and vice-versa, whereas the difference in pixel count is more or less all in your head.