Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / screen res

Author
Message
gamerboots
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2008
Location: USA
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 21:47
Link
hey , just curious what you guys average screen res is
I have mine set to 1024x768

Regards
Emperor Gamerboots~
Back to top
Profile PM
nackidno
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 3rd Feb 2007
Location: Där solen aldrig skiner
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 21:51
Link
I usually choose the highest resolution possible. ^^

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Darkowen
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Jan 2006
Location:
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 21:57
Link
Mine is 1920 x 1080, in other words Full HD 1080p, I dont really have a Pc monitor i hook it up to my 40inch Sony Bravia Instead, took me awhile to get used to having to turn my head to see parts of the screen other than just moving my eyes lol joke


Download the beta at http://www.evilpigeon.co.uk
Back to top
Profile PM
TheComet
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Oct 2007
Location: I`m under ur bridge eating ur goatz.
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 22:16 Edited at: 29th Jun 2009 22:16
Link
I have 3 screens (3 computers)

1) 1024*768
2) 1280*800
3) 2048*1024 (and yes, this screen is a MONSTER)

TheComet


Make the path of your enemies easier with Waypoint Pro!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
lazerus
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Apr 2008
Location:
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 22:26
Link
dual screen

1024 by 768 for normal use,
1920 x 1080 for gaming on my second screen, 46ich samsung HD 1080p


http://lazerusreborn.tumblr.com
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Venge
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 13th Sep 2006
Location: Iowa
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 22:45
Link
1280x1024 on a 13" CRT.


Black procession through the narrow aisles/Another's gone for all to see
Near the site for one who lost his trials/Sleeping 'neath the ground is me
Back to top
Profile PM
Sid Sinister
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Jul 2005
Location:
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 22:51
Link
1440x900

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" - Isaac Newton
Current Project: http://strewnfield.wordpress.com/ (Last updated 06/11/09)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Jeku
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Jul 2003
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 22:58
Link
1920x1200

North Korea 2007 Tour Pictures
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Yodaman Jer
User Banned
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 23:01
Link
I'm using 1152x864 right now...if I go higher my screen stretches in odd places.


Click to go to our website!
Back to top
Profile
TheComet
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Oct 2007
Location: I`m under ur bridge eating ur goatz.
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 23:18
Link
64*45*2

That's what I got after duel booting windows with ubuntu in windows, and I can't change it...


Make the path of your enemies easier with Waypoint Pro!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
xplosys
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Jan 2006
Playing: FPSC Multiplayer Games
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 23:20
Link
Quote: "1280x1024 on a 13" CRT"


Can you read text on that?

fpsFREE - Contact Me
Back to top
Profile PM
prasoc
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2008
Location:
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 23:33
Link
1440x900 on lappy
1680x1050 on comp.

this thread is useful for seeing what resolutions i should make my game ^_^


Your signature has been erased by a mod
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Aertic
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Jul 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 23:35
Link
2x2... Yep, I dunno what on earth I'm saying even!
J/k
It's 2520x1024, That's two monitors, so one would be 1280x1024...

Back to top
Profile PM Email
Lukas W
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Sep 2003
Location: Sweden
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 23:53
Link
Quote: "this thread is useful for seeing what resolutions i should make my game ^_^"

That or add an option for the user to change manually.

Why limit this to computer monitors?

PC: 22" 1680x1050
TV: 21" 1360x768 (runs 720p through component though)
Phone: 3" 240x400 (records video at 640x480 (30fps) (320x240 for 120fps) and 5mp for photos)
[/boast]

A mod accidentally your signature
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Brick Break
User Banned
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 23:57
Link
Mine's at 1280x800. I think 1024x768 is the standard resolution though, as it seems that's the highest one can go on a lot of monitors. Anything below 640x480 is way too small. So, in games you should provide:
640x480 (Low)
800x600 (Medium)
1024x768 (High)
Autodetect (Full)

Permanoobs are awesome.
Back to top
Profile
gamerboots
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2008
Location: USA
Posted: 29th Jun 2009 23:59 Edited at: 30th Jun 2009 00:00
Link
Quote: "this thread is useful for seeing what resolutions i should make my game"


yip, I didnt' realize it , but the system I was working on had a low res so when I tested my project on a newer system I didn't get the desired results as text appeared way too small, So thought I would try and get an average screen res that will work well with most everybody.

oh and I appreciate the input guys

Regards
Emperor Gamerboots~
Back to top
Profile PM
Seppuku Arts
Moderator
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Aug 2004
Location: Cambridgeshire, England
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 01:08
Link
Currently?

1024x768 on my extended monitor, the maximum it'll go is 1280x1024, but my monitor flickers on that setting (because it'll only run at 60hz and my monitor prefers it at 75hz, which it can't do at anything about 1024x768)

On my Widescreen laptop display, 1366x768 - it's the highest it'll go.

Back to top
Profile PM Website
Mr Bigglesworth
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Mar 2008
Location:
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 02:07
Link
My comp is at 1600x900 on a 22 inch LCD. My cellphone is 240x150 and my iPod is 320x240. Oh, and my laptop is 800x600, it's an old beast, a pentium 2 and 64Mb of RAM.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Randomness 128
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 13th Feb 2007
Location:
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 04:36
Link
1680x1050

Quote: "this thread is useful for seeing what resolutions i should make my game"

You should have your game detect every resolution supported and give an option to choose from any of them.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
gamerboots
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2008
Location: USA
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 12:42 Edited at: 30th Jun 2009 18:31
Link
Lets do a poll and I'll share the results when its done.

Regards
Emperor Gamerboots~
Back to top
Profile PM
NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Apr 2005
Location: The Fifth Plane of Oblivion
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 12:53
Link
1280x1024 on my desktop, 800x480 on my netbook.

Back to top
Profile PM Website
David R
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Sep 2003
Location: 3.14
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 13:35
Link
Quote: "this thread is useful for seeing what resolutions i should make my game ^_^
"


This is the number one reason to make your game 3D. Even for the UI - use 3D panels and billboards etc.

That way, your game can automatically scale to the current resolution (because 3D space is consistent across resolutions) rather than having different coordinate sets (and manual image scaling)

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Jeff Miller
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Mar 2005
Location: New Jersey, USA
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 13:38
Link
1920 x 1200
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Grandma
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Dec 2005
Location: Norway, Guiding the New World Order
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 13:47
Link
1280x800

This message was brought to you by Grandma industries.

Making yesterdays games, today!
Back to top
Profile PM Email
draknir_
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 19th Oct 2006
Location: Netherlands
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 14:03
Link
1280x1024 at home
1680x1050 at work
Back to top
Profile PM Email
monotonic
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Mar 2006
Location: Nottinghamshire, England
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 14:32
Link
1360x768

01100001 01101110 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010
01110000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011
01110011 01110011 01101001 01100111
Back to top
Profile PM
Kevin Picone
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: Australia
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 14:40
Link
1440 by 900


Learn to code for FREE with PlayBasic Learning Edition
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Jeku
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Jul 2003
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 18:00
Link
Quote: "That way, your game can automatically scale to the current resolution (because 3D space is consistent across resolutions) rather than having different coordinate sets (and manual image scaling)"


The 3D models themselves will scale, but the textures will not look good scaled up. Most games will use different UI art and textures for their models for different resolutions, especially if there's a large jump between the lowest to highest resolutions.

North Korea 2007 Tour Pictures
Back to top
Profile PM Website
n008
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Apr 2007
Location: Chernarus
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 18:22 Edited at: 30th Jun 2009 18:23
Link
1680x1050

"I have faith, that I shall win the race, even though I have no legs, and am tied to a tree." ~Mark75
Back to top
Profile PM
gamerboots
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2008
Location: USA
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 18:31 Edited at: 6th Aug 2009 12:34
Link
Quote: "Most games will use different UI art and textures for their models for different resolutions"


I aggree with Jeku, All your really good games do this [under the hood]
This thread is really turning out to be interesting with lots of good points.

Regards
Gamerboots~
Back to top
Profile PM
Bizar Guy
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Apr 2005
Location: Bostonland
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 18:41
Link
1600x1200. That's the max for my screen, and it's what I view things at.

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David R
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Sep 2003
Location: 3.14
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 19:17 Edited at: 30th Jun 2009 19:18
Link
Quote: "The 3D models themselves will scale, but the textures will not look good scaled up."


Yeah, but if your textures are high enough res by default, it'll look fine (this works well on my project by having 128x128 textures for fairly small objects. Expanding from 1280x -> 1920x screen resolution and it looks great). Unless you have tons of assets (and high res defaults aren't practical) in which case yeah - multiple texture sizes etc. will be needed.

Obviously it depends on what kind of UI and game objects you have though (e.g. repeating texture buttons vs. really complex elements)

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
SikaSina Games
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Dec 2007
Location: Reading, UK
Posted: 30th Jun 2009 23:01
Link
Lol:

Desktop: 1920x1080I HDMI Full RGB
Crysis: 1280x720P
SPORE: 1280x720P
FPS Creator: 1024x768
FPS Creator X10: Auto (1920x1080), hurts my framerate but I still maintain a playable speed .
Overlord: 1920x1080I - All Very High Specs , little lag

There are more games, but they normally use 720P by default .

-SSG


PC: Vista HP, 1GB RAM, ATi Radeon HD 4550 DDR3 512mb, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.3GHz Dual-Core, 160GB HDD
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
ico
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 17th Jun 2006
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 12:34 Edited at: 1st Jul 2009 12:35
Link
1280x1024 on 19" 4:3 LCD

Sometimes I play games at 1024x768

Videos of my games, demos, programs and other related stuff. Check it out
Back to top
Profile PM Website
SunnyKatt
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Sep 2006
Location: USA
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 13:46
Link
I used to use 1024x768, but then I got a nice LG monitor with really good colors and contrast ratio, and I have it set to 1440x900 now and I love it.

Join Nation Of Design - A large volunteer graphic making team!

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Ravey
Retired TGC Developer
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Nov 2002
Location: Southern TGC Nerve Centre
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 16:09
Link
1920x1200 on both pc and mac

Dave Milton
TGC Team
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Benjamin
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 16:34
Link
Quote: "1280x1024 on 19" 4:3 LCD"

Same.

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Roxas
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Nov 2005
Location: http://forum.thegamecreators.com
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 16:54
Link
1440x900

It must be pain to still have 1024x768.

Back to top
Profile PM Email
SunnyKatt
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Sep 2006
Location: USA
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 18:12
Link
Yeah, I never realized how small it was until I switched.

Join Nation Of Design - A large volunteer graphic making team!

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Insanity Complex
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Sep 2005
Location: Home
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 21:24
Link
1680x1050


www.aeriagames.com <-They have some decent ones
Back to top
Profile PM Email
NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Apr 2005
Location: The Fifth Plane of Oblivion
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 21:32
Link
Is that an iMac?

Back to top
Profile PM Website
flashing snall
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2005
Location: Boston
Posted: 1st Jul 2009 22:05
Link
1440 x 900

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
gamerboots
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2008
Location: USA
Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 11:05
Link
I would like to thank everyone for responding. I have decided that 1024x768 is a good target for my next project. Again , thank you very much for your input guys

Regards
Gamerboots~
Back to top
Profile PM
djmaster
User Banned
Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 11:54
Link
PC: 1280x1024
Laptop: 1280x800

[href]http://chargedstudios.netne.net/index.htm[href]
"Im British you muppet!"-Psycho
Back to top
Profile
Zuka
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 21st Apr 2008
Location: They locked me in the insane asylum.
Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 15:25
Link
Left: 1280x1024, 17" CRT
Right (main): 1680x1050, 20" LCD (my baby )

Back to top
Profile PM
thenerd
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Mar 2009
Location: Boston, USA
Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 16:45
Link
1680x1050 on my main computer.
1024x768 on my laptop.

Back to top
Profile PM Email
zeroSlave
15
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 13th Jun 2009
Location: Springfield
Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 17:48
Link
PC and Laptops are at: 1440x900

There's something in this room that makes you can't speak well.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Clbembry
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Dec 2006
Location: Minnesota
Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 18:07
Link
1600x900

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Mahoney
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 14th Apr 2008
Location: The Interwebs
Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 19:11
Link
1440x900 I like 16:10

Windows Vista Home Premium Intel Pentium Dual-Core 1.6 Ghz 1GB DDR2 RAM GeForce 8600GT Twin Turbo
Back to top
Profile PM
NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Apr 2005
Location: The Fifth Plane of Oblivion
Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 20:11
Link
Why 16:10 and not 8:5?

Back to top
Profile PM Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2025-05-30 12:20:28
Your offset time is: 2025-05-30 12:20:28