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Geek Culture / Survey - what screen resolution do you use?

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Ric
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I don't mean for writing games, I mean the windows resolution you are running as set in the control panel? I'm trying to find out what percentage of DBPro users are still running less than 1024x768. Cheers.

p.s. I'm running 1024x768

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Hamish McHaggis
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1152x864

Isn't it? Wasn't it? Marvellous!
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spooky
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1280*1024 on 17" LCD monitor

Boo!
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Osiris
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1024x768

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1280x800

/me hugs his new widescreen laptop

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1152 x 900.

Not too small for my monitor, but not too blocky.

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You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
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EddieB
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1152x864

[href]http:www.graphics-monkey.co.uk[href]
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1024x768



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David T
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Good to see there's a fair few with 1152. Haven't seen too many of the x900 variant (x864 on my machine looks distorted).

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1024x768 (my laptop card can do up to 1600x1200 but neither the inbuilt screen nor my crt screen can )

I don't see why people think that 133b is spelt 1337?!
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Eric T
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1152x864

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Frozen Flame
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1024x768

Its here. [href]www.GALEKUS.com[/href]
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Dazzag
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Depends. Main network PC's are 1600x1200 (20.1" LCD and 19" CRT), and main laptop is 1920x1200. Work PC was just upgraded (bit more like it with 3Ghz now) but still have relatively annoying 1280x800 resolution thanks to cheapos. It is a black PC though, so not all bad.

Only use lower than 1280x800 for testing basically.

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Jeku
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1024x768 -- my monitor can't handle anything above that


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Emperor Baal
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desktop = 1152x864 (Max refresh 85hz)
games = 1280x1024 (75hz)
sometimes = 320x240 <---> 1280x1024 (dos games, testing, etc)

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Benjamin
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800x600

What? Anything higher just hurts my eyes too quickly.


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1600 x 1200 at home (21" CRT)
1280 x 1024 at work (19" LCD)

I like having plenty of space to work with


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Ian T
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1024x768 because it's the most my monitors support.

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stupid kid
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Quote: "1280*1024 on 17" LCD monitor"


i am using that too.
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1400x1050 on my laptop, 1280x1024 on my desktop

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Ric
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2005 11:04 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2005 11:06
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Fantastic response guys - thanks! (Wow - 6 mods too, I am honoured!) This is really useful to know for working with BlueGUI, where the size of the gadgets you make are affected by the desktop resolution, not the directx resolution, as set from within DBP.

In the project I'm working on, at 800x600 its a real squash fitting the gadgets onto the screen, but knowing that so few people are running that low a resolution, I'm not so worried anymore.

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Foxy
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Internet pc: 1152x864
My pc: 1280x960
Both 17"

Gaming resources.

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Dot Merix
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1024x768 on both pc's.



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do not look at my resolution unless you want to be shocked and amazed:
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I thought the entire planet was on 1024x768...
(Schools don't count. They are in the C64 days)

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my school has 15" tfts and new pcs and they still run at 800x600 (minimum)

I don't see why people think that 133b is spelt 1337?!
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1024 x 768 .... because my eyes don't support anything higher. stupid small writing.

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1280 x 960

Yeah I'm weird.

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desktop
XP 1280 x 1024
Linux 1024 x768

laptop
1024 x 768

I think 1024 x 768 is gonna be the new minimum, most people have a reasonably new PC with a TFT screen (all mine are) or a good quality crt monitor, and I haven`t seen a TFT lower than 1024 x 768 resolution and anyone with CRT is usualy using them because of their job/main hobby (video editing, hardcore gamer etc), so they have a good quality display, only kids with passed on computers from grandparents etc are gonna be on 800 x 600 imo (like the one I just refurbished for my workmates grandson ...Packard Bell executive multimedia 800 x 600 crt and 120mhz pentium, 32mb ram).

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1024x768...

Because I cant be bothered to reajust my monitor for anything higher...




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Monitor 1 - 1280x1024 (17" screen)
Monitor 2 - 1024x768 (when i occasionally hook up my second monitor, for intense coding, but its only a 15")

Hoping to update to one of those new Samsung 19" 8ms response time screens soon.



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Check out the very bottom of the stats page on our BBT site. 50% of accesses are from 1024x768. Might help you out:
http://www.breakbeat-terrorism.co.uk/stats.php

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I'm on 1024x768
Using a nice LG FlatScreen CRT 17" - any higher resolution just looks too small, and moving the mouse from one corner to the other seem impractical to me

If I had a bigger monitor, however, I would up the resolution, definatly

Jess.


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Dazzag
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Nah, just use mouse accelerators.

Although it doesn't matter what size you have, after a while you start wishing 40 inch LCD TVs would hurry up and get more decent resolutions. Like those nice large 1920x1200 panels (ie. 40 inch ones) that are do out this year apparently. Nice....

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But the problem with accelerating the mouse ( I've done this, btw ), is that you then lose accuracy.
I do alot of doodling, and general pixel art work, and without that acuracy, things get difficult very quickly!


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Not if you have a good driver. Most these days should increase the accuracy as you slow down. So moving slowly should be exactly the same as before. Although to tell the truth I've used drivers that do this really well, and others that don't really work.

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Hmmm, ok.

I'll have to have a look into it Thanks for the info

Jess.


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Yeah, I'm now tempted by an array of 4 of my monitors on one PC. Slightly expensive, but it would give an overall size of 40.2 inch diagonal screen with an overall resolution of 3200x2400. Gibber. My only justification is that I can't get *all* of my forms and code open at once at an acceptable size in my current visual studio project. But I need to spend money on annoying things like food... drat...

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1280x1024 at uni
1024x768 at home

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1024x768 it's as high as my moniter goes

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1152x864 on desktop.
1024x768 for most games.

- Rpg Cyco

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800x600 for desktop
320x240 or 640x480 for games

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