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Old 10-26-2010, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by kimosabi View Post
Changing game resolution does not change your monitors native resolution
True.

Quote:
Originally Posted by kimosabi View Post
the amount of pixels used stays the same.
Not true.

When using (for example) a 1280*800 game res on a 2560*1600 native res monitor leads into that every "game pixel" is drawn as 4 "actual pixels" as the smaller res image is stretched over the same monitor area.

Even using a 75% of the native resolution gives you this effect. One game pixel is shown as one fully colored pixel and the adjacent pixels being "blurred". I use this on my 30" 2560*1600 monitor (75% == 1920*1200). Works well for me.

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