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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: zanzibar on February 17, 2006, 07:57:53 am

Title: Does anyone else prefer the lower resolution? High resoltuion too sha
Post by: zanzibar on February 17, 2006, 07:57:53 am

I actually prefer the lower 800x600  resolution for two reasons.


I grew up with games that were low-res.  800x600, 400x300.  Dos games and commodore 64 games.  I know that\'s not ultra old, but it\'s what I grew up with.



The other reason is that the higher resolution seems really sharp to me.  There are certain graphical things from having really sharp lines, especially at distance, that I find distracting.



I don\'t know, is there a way to have the higher resolution, but have everything look a bit softer?  Maybe some sort of focus or blur thing?  (besides playing with my glasses off, because then I can\'t read the chat)

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Post by: ylikone on February 17, 2006, 04:48:16 pm

I normally play at only 800x600, because I like it \"windowed\" instead of fullscreen.  Lets me get work done and when I see movement in the game window, I come check it out.

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Post by: Odessa Wildfire on February 17, 2006, 05:22:08 pm

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Originally posted by zanzibar
I actually prefer the lower 800x600  resolution for two reasons.

I grew up with games that were low-res.  800x600, 400x300.  Dos games and commodore 64 games.  I know that\'s not ultra old, but it\'s what I grew up with.

OMG! You spoke my thoughts there :D
I still play many old dos games as well as the old c64 and speccy games.

Nothing quite like 320x240 eh lol
*Odessa sighs and smiles with past memories*

I prefer playing PS in 800x600 (windowed) because it allows me to work on other things in the background... skype, email, winamp, dreamweaver blah blah blah....

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Post by: zanzibar on February 17, 2006, 06:58:02 pm

I can\'t play Dos games anymore simply because I don\'t have a way of running them.  I\'d need to partition my harddrive.

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Post by: Asraniel on February 17, 2006, 07:46:36 pm

there are very good dos emulators out there, open source ones

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Post by: steuben on February 17, 2006, 07:49:21 pm

i use the 1024x768 res for everything. a good balance between space and image size. and it means that the res doesn\'t bounce up and down slowing things down when i switch tasks.

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Post by: zanzibar on February 17, 2006, 07:51:56 pm

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there are very good dos emulators out there, open source ones

I have one, but it can\'t exceed the performance of a 486!

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Post by: Bereror on February 17, 2006, 07:54:40 pm

Running in a 1024x768 window on a 1280x1024 LCD screen gives me large enough PS window and still room for other stuff like the web browser and IRC client.

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Post by: Asraniel on February 17, 2006, 07:56:20 pm

there is dosbox, never used it, but well, dos games were meant to be played on a 486, so the game will play normaly...

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Post by: zanzibar on February 17, 2006, 08:03:47 pm

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there is dosbox, never used it, but well, dos games were meant to be played on a 486, so the game will play normaly...

A 486 might work for Hugo\'s House of Horrors or some basic shooter games, but my dos version of Dark Forces (let alone Tie Fighter!) need more power.  Even Starfighter has major slow downs, not to mention the 5 minute loading screens.

I\'m probably going to splurge for the collector\'s edition of Tie Fighter anyway (A whooping $15-$20 I think), but it would be nice to have a DOS emulator that could at least perform at the level of Pentium computers.

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Post by: Drey on February 17, 2006, 10:47:07 pm

912*684


...dont ask why.

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Post by: zanzibar on February 17, 2006, 10:49:12 pm

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912*684


...dont ask why.

I\'m asking.

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Post by: ramlambmoo on February 18, 2006, 12:11:42 am

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I can\'t play Dos games anymore simply because I don\'t have a way of running them. I\'d need to partition my harddrive.

Dosbox is decent, I\'ve played a few games with it.  But its true that speed is often very bad even if you have a very good computer, but dosbox is about as good as it gets.  Try messing with the options if you get poor performance as I think there\'s a option that controls the emulator processor speed, which means your game will run the same speed on every computer unless you know about this and bother to increase it (I think it\'s dosbox, could be another emulator though as I havnt used it for a while).

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Post by: zanzibar on February 18, 2006, 12:14:59 am

In the literature for dosbox, it actually says that it can\'t run with speed faster than a 486.

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Post by: Drey on February 18, 2006, 12:27:08 am

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Originally posted by zanzibar

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912*684


...dont ask why.

I\'m asking.

i dont remember :/

whats the \"too sha\" about in the thread didnts?

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Post by: zanzibar on February 18, 2006, 12:54:17 am

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Originally posted by Drey

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Originally posted by zanzibar

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Originally posted by Drey
912*684


...dont ask why.

I\'m asking.

i dont remember :/

whats the \"too sha\" about in the thread didnts?

\"too sharp?\"

It got cut off.

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Post by: Drey on February 18, 2006, 01:00:52 am

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Originally posted by zanzibar

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Originally posted by Drey

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Originally posted by zanzibar

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Originally posted by Drey
912*684


...dont ask why.

I\'m asking.

i dont remember :/

whats the \"too sha\" about in the thread didnts?

\"too sharp?\"

It got cut off.

what do you think i tried to type to get \"didnts\"  O.o

those are some of the most annoying typos

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Post by: Ahriman on February 18, 2006, 07:26:52 pm

\"Is there a way to make the lines not so sharp in high resolution?\"

Yeah, you can go to Planeshift Setup and change the Multisampling (Antialiasing) meter to somewhere around 16. They shouldn;t look so sharp after that. If they still do, try to raise the meter to 32, 64, etc.

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Post by: oliver123 on February 19, 2006, 04:19:52 pm

zanzibar: did you try Qemu? It emulates a whole PC, and it\'s even fast enough to play some Windows games (not all games... and not as fast as a real PC, of course). For DOS games, it should be good enough.

Btw. I found that playing PS in a window of 1280x960 works nicely for me, because my screen is set to 1280x1024, and then the PS window + title bar + KDE task bar fits exactly :)

Oliver