[A8dr1aN]

Hi!

I need a bit of help.
I'm about to upgrade my old CRT monitor (18" viewable).
Initially I was almost sold on Dell's 20" 2005FPW but then I found this sweetie, the 23" L2335 by HP. Both seem very nice widescreen LCD's and both are running at 16ms which is initial to gaming. The HP L2335 runs in the 1,300s and the Dell 2005FPW around 600 on eBay.

I'm a gamer and would mostly use my new LCD on games. I usually play Half-Life 2, CS:S, FarCry and Doom 3. You get the picture. Every now and then I would pop in a DVD and watch it on my computer.

Here's where the confusion sets in, though. I've been reading this forum and others and have been trying to educate myself on widescreen gaming.
The HP L2335's native 1920 x 1200 resolution is nice but I highly doubt even my PNY GeForce 6800 (regular version) would push a game like FarCry to playable FPS at such high res. Or even HL2 (which is not as demanding) for that matter.

Maybe I would have better luck with those games using Dell's 2005FPW 1680x1050 native resolution.

Either way, my question is, could I play games on lower (widescreen) resolutions than the LCD's native one? To be able to play at acceptable framerates and maintain a true widescreen format?

Thanks in advance!

My relevant specs:

HP Pavilion 763n Desktop PC
P4 2.53 GHz
1GB PC2100 RAM
PNY GeForce 6800
and so on...

[angelmb]

Originally posted by A8dr1aN:
Hi!

Either way, my question is, could I play games on lower (widescreen) resolutions than the LCD's native one? To be able to play at acceptable framerates and maintain a true widescreen format?

Thanks in advance!

That is the reason I dislike TFTs, you have a prety nice native resolution, then you are kinda versus ini files and so, afaik every game has a certain number of built in resolution modes that could match your display, but I am not a hard core gamer

And do not blame on me but I can not give you much more advice since this is a Mac forum

[A8dr1aN]

A mac forum?

I was so tired when I posted this I didn't even notice.

Sorry!

[angelmb]

ha ha ha don´t worry one could guess that since Mac guys are widescreen for years, it is a good place to ask fot it. There are also some guys here that have bought HP and even Dell wide screens.

[robby818]

with either display, you probably will not want to play at the native resolution. the fps rates would take a big hit even with a fast card.

i own a couple of dell 2005's. i also have the 19" dell widescreen tv which i use for gaming.

widescreen gaming is really awesome. especially first person shooters. HL2 has support for a wide variety of widescreen aspect ratios and even though it supports the native resolution of my 19" widescreen monitor i play at a slightly lower resolution for the sake of FPS's. usually 1280 x 960 or something like that... it still looks really good. just choose a 16:9 resolution.

[Lava Lamp Freak]

I have the 23" HP L2335 and love it. I have a P4 2.6C and a BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC and it handles games just fine. Far Cry is the only game I have that gets unplayable at 1920x1200 in combat. Other games I play are Raven Shield and Half Life 2. Both of those run great at 1920x1200. Half Life 2 will set the graphics to what it thinks your machine can handle. At that level it works for me and looks great. I can't stand running at anything below native res cause it just doesn't look when good sitting close. With the new SLI chipsets out it will soon be possible to run at the native res in even the most demanding games.

[A8dr1aN]

Thanks a lot for the feedbacks, people!

I think, I will get the 20" 2005FPW by Dell. I just feel that going any bigger than 20" would be a little too much for my system to handle for the ammount of gaming that I do. Besides, getting a 23" and scale things down at a much lower resolution than its native (like 1280 x 960) for the sake of framerate, will not look so good.

The only thing that I'm starting to worry is the ammount of people reporting the 2005FPW's back-light bleeding edge problem. And it really seems to be a lot of them lately! Almost as if the first batch was close to perfect and the latest one is all screwed.

Well, I'll cross my fingers and hope for better luck, I guess.

Will place the order tonight. For around $700 with its specs it looks like a very good deal if I steer clear of the usual problems.

Thanks again for the gaming feedback!