Assuming that you're playing in full screen you should pick the native resolution of your monitor.
Assuming that you're playing on a Windows laptop and Windows is set up correctly for the native resolution for the monitor you should be able to find the resolution on the Display Properties panel by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting "Properties" from the pop-up menu. On the laptop I'm typing on it's on the "Settings" tab of the panel but this may vary from version to version. (I'm in a coffee shop now so I've only got this machine to go by.)
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You can also tell in the in-game options which resolution to use by selecting whichever one says "(Desktop)" after it. That's the resolution of your...er...desktop.
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This may be true, but I, for one, have a 22" widescreen monitor with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080, and if I try to play in this resolution, everything is so tiny I can barely make it out. So I lowered the resolution to something close to the same ratio, but lower res, so everything looks bigger. Should I have kept the native resolution and just increased my window sizes to 150% on the UI (or whatever it takes to look right)? Which is the bigger drain on my computer's resources? (Crummy on-board video, so working at the lower end of graphics settings here...)
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Originally Posted by Feefa J
Assuming that you're playing in full screen you should pick the native resolution of your monitor.
Assuming that you're playing on a Windows laptop and Windows is set up correctly for the native resolution for the monitor you should be able to find the resolution on the Display Properties panel by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting "Properties" from the pop-up menu. On the laptop I'm typing on it's on the "Settings" tab of the panel but this may vary from version to version. (I'm in a coffee shop now so I've only got this machine to go by.) |
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At 1920x1080 your GPU is moving a lot of pixels around, so if you don't mind the grainier image at a lower 16x9 resolution it may give you better performance.|
Originally Posted by NekoNeko
This may be true, but I, for one, have a 22" widescreen monitor with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080, and if I try to play in this resolution, everything is so tiny I can barely make it out. So I lowered the resolution to something close to the same ratio, but lower res, so everything looks bigger. Should I have kept the native resolution and just increased my window sizes to 150% on the UI (or whatever it takes to look right)? Which is the bigger drain on my computer's resources? (Crummy on-board video, so working at the lower end of graphics settings here...)
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I recently upgraded monitors, and although I use 1920x1080 now, it definitely does many things more slowly (side-to-side scrolling has obvious artifacts), but it's not enough to turn down the resolution again. The native resolution is less glitchy in other ways (starting and ending the game, and alt-tabbing to other apps) that I'll just live with the poorer sideways scrolling, as I don't suffer graphics lag in general.
I've played CoH on two different computers. On my desktop it informed that I needed to switch to a specific resolution. However, on my laptop it did not warn me of which screen resolution to use. Is there a way to find out which resolution I should be using? Any help is much appreciated.