Dot Visibility in COD and Other Flight ims.

[Qpassa]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

Same here. Samsung SM 2443

lol I have the same screen, bought in pixmania
I'm sorry about that Gromic

[KG26_Alpha]

I've seen screen shots from a particular online-war pilot, aircraft looked like a flying bricks.

These guys are into stats mungering.

800x600 turn off all details no buildings etc etc

You see aircraft from way out and all ground targets are easy to see as there's no scenery buildings just flat terrain till you are almost on top of it, quite sad but they are interested only in points and their stats, what the sim/game looks like is of no consequence to them.

[fruitbat]

i play at 1920 by 1200 with the aa cranked up to 16xQ, on a samsung 24inch monitor

maybe i can't see dots as well below me, but i never seem to have that much problem seeing them, and for what advantage i loose, i'm more than happy to have the eye candy.

i think i would throw up playing it in 1024x768.

[Flanker35M]

S!

I play at 1920x1200 and have some difficulties spotting planes at times. Especially when they approach and go near the horizon, kind of disappear before appearing again. I hope the dot issue is better handled in CoD..we are not playing with small screens anymore

[The Kraken]

I have a hard time imagining people playing on medieval resolutions just to be more "competitive". What's next, wallhacks? Aimbots? Pink default skins for the enemy plains?

[xnomad]

I actually came to post a similar question about monitors. I bought a highly rated 19" CRT years ago for IL2 as it had a very fine dot pitch. I remember setting it on high res and being able to identify planes much better than at 1024x768. I can't remember the dots being harder to see at long range but the planes were much easier to identify as friend or foe from medium distances which I found really helpful.

I quit playing for a few years but came back recently. I still have the same monitor but I am using it with a laptop so I can only use 1024x768 and the graphics at lower settings.

So I was going to ask with LCD's do I need to worry about dot pitch etc or all they all pretty good these days? Back then nobody would touch them as they had refresh rate issues, ghosting and low resolutions. Can anyone recommend one, as I'm going to be hardware shopping when COD comes out.

[Wolf_Rider]

Looking for a new monitor is scary territory to be entering these days, young Grasshopper

lots of side by side comparisons are called for indeed, as well as 'netresearch.
Series 6 or later side lit LED aren't too bad... I'm happy with my SyncMaster PX2370

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by fruitbat

i play at 1920 by 1200 with the aa cranked up to 16xQ, on a samsung 24inch monitor

maybe i can't see dots as well below me, but i never seem to have that much problem seeing them, and for what advantage i loose, i'm more than happy to have the eye candy.

i think i would throw up playing it in 1024x768.

1024X768 looks very good with 4X AA and 8X or higher AF. Plus you get much better FPS with the lower res.