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Jif · Postby **Jif** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:08 am

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

biggest surpise? a Primary Display Resolution of 1024x768 being the most popular. it's only .2% ahead of 1280x1024, but still...that's small even for a laptop. are people that dumb where they buy these nice new LCDs and dont even change the resolution or does 25% of steam gamers use 15 year old CRTs?

Postby **Darkfoxx** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:39 am

When I was setting up computers in an office last year, they wanted it at 1024x768. If the resolution was any bigger, they complained about not being able to see shit on the screen.

Tanis Half Elf · Postby **Tanis Half Elf** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:17 pm

I know mine is supposed to be 1900x1080 or 1900x1200, but it is a little hard to read stuff on my screen because everything is so small on my 17" screen.
I used 1600x1200 right now.

Jif · Postby **Jif** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:24 pm

1920x1200 on a 17" must be a laptop. laptop screens often use higher pixel density panels to icnrease the resolution for the same size. i'm not a huge fan unless you increase the font/GUI size.

ditto to fox. @ school our images are for max LCD rez but i think 96DPI font. makes everything readable no matter the rez and gives everyone more screen space. but, you do what they tell you to do...

dun dun dun... chips · Postby **dun dun dun... chips** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:16 pm

well, you have to take into account that the computer will run hellishly faster without that extra resolution, even with the same size monitor.
and taking into account the fact that 40% of them are only using a single core processor? they are probably sacrificing the resolution to just be able to run shit. if they even have a screen that can run anything higher.
sounds to me like old tech.

Jif · Postby **Jif** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:32 pm

1024 desktop rez, not gaming rez. desktop in XP and Vista if Aero is disable is completely 2D and does not stress the CPU and GPU any less than 1600x1200.

dun dun dun... chips · Postby **dun dun dun... chips** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:10 pm

who says they are running aero though? it still sounds like they just have old tech to me and cant support the hardware, be that processing power or hardware.

Jif · Postby **Jif** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:44 am

dun dun dun... chips · Postby **dun dun dun... chips** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:46 am

nice.

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