Simviation Forum - Screen Resolution?

Jan 27^th, 2004 at 2:58pm

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I have a new system and I am running FS2002 on:
Win XP
Pent 4 2.80 GHz
512 MB of Ram
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My monitor is an NEC MultiSync LCD 1765.

My question is what screen resolution what be the best? It can go as high as 1280x1024.

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Reply #1 - Jan 27^th, 2004 at 5:50pm

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I'd guess that with those specs, you could probably afford to be rather liberal with your resolution....play with it though and see what works best for you!

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Reply #2 - Jan 28^th, 2004 at 12:41pm

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One other thing to note- There is usually a trade off between AA and screen resolution. For example I use a resolution of 1024 by 768 with AA times 6. Others I know use a higher resolution but lower AA.

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Reply #3 - Jan 28^th, 2004 at 7:27pm

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What is "AA"???

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Reply #4 - Jan 28^th, 2004 at 7:28pm

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yeah whats aa? ???

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Reply #5 - Jan 28^th, 2004 at 7:35pm

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The only thing I can think of is anti-aliasing.

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Reply #6 - Jan 29^th, 2004 at 2:41am

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Thanks Hyperion Wink

Yes, I was refering to anti-aliasing. My reason for mentioning it with screen resolution is that AA smoothes the appearance of the screen. The same effect is achieved (in a different way) by increasing the screen resolution.

As both use of AA and higher screen resolutions usually require more 'power' it can often become a trade off between these two items.

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Reply #7 - Jan 29^th, 2004 at 1:58pm

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I've noticed a real improvement in frame rates with AA (anti-aliasing) turned off, but how do you adjust the value of AA?

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Reply #8 - Jan 29^th, 2004 at 6:17pm

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Thanks Guys,

All good advise, I have mine set at 1280x960 with AA on, seems to work good for me, no loss of performance.

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Reply #9 - Jan 30^th, 2004 at 10:53am

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You can change the AA in Flightsim, but I find it better to use the video card control to adjust AA. Look under start/settings/controlpanel/display.

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Reply #10 - Jan 30^th, 2004 at 10:48pm

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I don't have as powerful a system as you and I run 1280x1024 with aa on and it does me fine: go here to see images of my flights:

http://www.thisispicturethat.com/around_the_continent_main.html

Look at the last picture of Leg 14 and you will see what I mean. I am running a 1Ghz p3, 768MB RAM, msi ti4200 128MB VRAM and have no problems.

Imagine...

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Reply #11 - Jan 30^th, 2004 at 11:13pm

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Thanks Geezer,
I am going to jack mine up see how it works !
By the way is that DC-3 you're flying? I really like your panel. I have a DC but with different panel.

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Dave

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Reply #12 - Jan 31^st, 2004 at 3:58pm

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If I remember correctly, it is on Mark (Dark Moment) Beaumont's page here: http://www.swiremariners.com/dc3.html along with all of his DC-3 creations. Also, take a look at the MAAM site and the R4D-6 they have, it is really something special (except for the nav lights).

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