Using my old 32" samsung lcd. wat is the best resolution for gaming??

[DannyHead86]

Hey guys.
Recently got a new 51" 3D plasma and now i want to use my old 32" samsung lcd for my monitor. What would b the best resolution to use?? i use to use 1920 x 1080 but i think it seems to run a bit slower now that i have a bigger screen. Is this because there are more pixels now?? please help

 

[ratbuddy]

The TV is 1920x1080 at most, so if anything it should run at least as well. What model is the TV?

 

[JLK03F150]

CPU: INTEL i7 930 (2800Mhz)
GPU: ASUS HD6950
PSU: CORSAIR HX850
RAM: 3 x 2gb ELIXIR 1600Mhz

You'll get the best image quaility running at its native resolution, which is either 720p or 1080p. Your system should be able to run 1920x1080 with no problem.

 

[ratbuddy]

You'll get the best image quaility running at its native resolution, which is either 720p or 1080p. Your system should be able to run 1920x1080 with no problem.

720p is pretty rare, most of them really run 1366x768.

 

[JLK03F150]

720p is pretty rare, most of them really run 1366x768.

True, that was the resolution of my old plasma TV.

 

[Pierre3400]

720p is pretty rare, most of them really run 1366x768.

1360x768.

My Samsung runs this even thou its a 720.

If the TV can run 1920x1080, i would go for that anyday.

 

[ratbuddy]

1360x768.

Nah, most (all?) are 1366x768. Some cards and configurations just won't output that resolution because it's not a multiple of 8, so folks needed to use 1360x768 or 1368x768. I think modern video cards will properly output 1366 now.

 

[Pierre3400]

Nah, most (all?) are 1366x768. Some cards and configurations just won't output that resolution because it's not a multiple of 8, so folks needed to use 1360x768 or 1368x768. I think modern video cards will properly output 1366 now.

Its not an all situation thats for sure.

My Samsung 50" Plasma 720 only goes to 1360x768

 

[ratbuddy]

My Samsung 50" Plasma 720 only goes to 1360x768

Which model is that? Most of the Samsung 50's were 1365x768 IIRC.

 

[DannyHead86]

my tv is the Samsung LN32B360 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV. Windows recommends i run it in
1360x768. I can set it to 1920x1080 no worries but in games (Crysis2) it runs a bit slow, is that because i need more video power or doesnt the screen like the resolution??

 

[DannyHead86]

When i set it to 1920x1080 on the desktop the font under the icons are hard to read so do i just adjust the size of the text and other items or do i need to change the resolution?

 

[DannyHead86]

So in Crysis2 game menu the cursor is like lagging a lil bit @ 1920x1080 and when i change the resolution to 136x768 it runs really smooth if ya know wat i mean..

 

[ratbuddy]

You'll want to run at 1366 or 1360x768, whichever windows gives you the option for. If it lets you select 1366, go for that, since that is the panel's native resolution. If it only lets you select 1360x768, go with that - you only lose 3 pixels on each side of the display. When you run 1920x1080, the panel needs to downscale it to fit the display - you don't have 1920 horizontal pixels or 1080 vertical pixels, so the TV is forced to decide how to display that image. This takes time, and you also lose detail in the image. If you send a native-resolution signal to the TV, it doesn't need to scale anything, and that's why it seems faster.

Are you connected with HDMI or VGA?

 

[druidelder]

If your TV is really 720p then the reason 1920x1080 is sluggish is that your TV has to truncate the signal before it can display it. The TV controller will only display at 720p. The picture may look different at 1920x1080, but that is because your TV will resample down to that resolution than your video card will. Some 720p TVs can actually display higher resolutions but are usually limited to 1080i. An interlaced video game would look more sluggish than with progressive scan.

In the case of your TV, it seems that it will accept 1080i input, but is not displaying that (from the manual). It is displaying as 720p. When it is displaying 720p, then not only does it have to truncate the signal down from 1080i, it has to take the interlaced signal (half of the lines on each refresh) and turn it into a progressive scan signal (all lines on refresh). That is most likely why it is laggy.

 

[DannyHead86]

Im using a HDMI cable with an adapter to dvi i think.. when i run the games at 1920x1080 the picture looks way different when using 1360x768. Like i think its like brighter and stuff and when its on a lower res it looks more realistic colours and darker, hard to explain. but i turned off dx 11 and high res textures and now it runs heaps better on 1080 but gets even better as i lower the res. cheers guys you have been heaps of help.

 

[druidelder]

I know I said this in the last post, but after reading the sentence, I see that I left some words out and it may not have made as much sense.

The resolution you are viewing from the TV is the same whether you are sending the signal as 720 or 1080. The reason it looks different is that at 720 your video card is rendering the image and the TV is just displaying it. At 1080 the TV is shrinking the image (and therefore re-rendering it). A video card will always be better at it than the TV.

Even over HDMI, your TV only accepts 1080i (not p) input.

 

[DannyHead86]

Ok no worries. So its best to set it to 1360x768 or 1366??

 

[druidelder]

The manual only mentions 1360x768, so I would stick with that. That way the TV is not doing any resampling. The manual also suggests that you use screen fit mode (but I would try 16:9 mode also to be sure).

 

[DannyHead86]

Where can i choose the aspect ratio??

 

[DannyHead86]

It looks better in black ops when i run it at 1920x1080, The colours are more vibrant and colourfull even though it is resampling and the game still runs fine. Will it hurt the tv if i use that res??