THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Cerveza mas fina on November 24, 2011, 04:03:43 AM

Title: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 24, 2011, 04:03:43 AM

So I'm playing Oblivion on my new laptop in 1080p on high with AA and things runs decent (prob on par with 360 version) and I try to fiddle around with settings and turn the resolution down to 720p and now the game looks like somebody smeared vaseline on the screen.

It's as bad as going from 720p to 480p  :-X I checked out Diablo 3 Beta and sure enough same effect going to 720p.

Is this because the screen native rez is 1080? Or because my eyes are now used to gaming in Full HD and HD Ready just doesn't cut it?

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: MCD on November 24, 2011, 06:03:54 AM

>Is this because the screen native rez is 1080?

Probably this. PC Monitors are such a bitch.

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 24, 2011, 06:50:57 AM

Ugh its so weird!

This means that if I play games in 720p it will looks like n64 shit.

Good thing I can run games at 1080 for now.

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: MCD on November 24, 2011, 07:22:00 AM

I guess you can hook that laptop to your HDTV, their scalers are much better.

Or perhaps you can try to mess with your GPU (AMD/Nvidia) scaling option? I never messed with them so I have no idea if they will help or not.

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 24, 2011, 08:48:01 AM

Thanks will whine again when I can't play in 1080p.

For nowSkyrim runs good in 1080 and so does Diablo 3.  All that matters :)

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 24, 2011, 10:26:50 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 24, 2011, 10:30:27 AM

So which rez would make sense if I need to go sub 1080p?

1280x720?

I guess not.

Ugh 960x540  :gloomy

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: maxy on November 24, 2011, 10:46:13 AM

Quote

So which rez would make sense if I need to go sub 1080p?

The closer to the 1080p(native res) the better.

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 24, 2011, 10:48:59 AM

This kind of rains on the parade of buying a new laptop with a great screen but oh well.

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: maxy on November 24, 2011, 10:55:00 AM

That is normal with any fixed pixel display(almost everything except CRT).There is no way around it.

Try to put your OS resolution to 720p and cry :(

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 24, 2011, 11:10:05 AM

Sigh.

I never knew about this, since I never encountered it before and I did extensive research on which laptop to get.

Anyhoo Diablo 3/Skyrim works in 1080 so I'm safe for the next 3/5 years.

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Smooth Groove on November 24, 2011, 11:18:34 AM

Buy a better laptop.  :patel

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 24, 2011, 12:00:18 PM

wait, you've never used an LCD PC monitor before? ever?

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: maxy on November 24, 2011, 12:23:33 PM

yeah,have you been living under some rock for the past 10 years?

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 24, 2011, 05:35:32 PM

I had my previous desktop hooked up to my 32" telly. Always at 720p.

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: Vizzys on November 24, 2011, 06:33:48 PM

 try playing games in windowed or borderless mode while keeping desktop setting at native res



its like a crazy "ocd must fix feeling" pet peeve of mine when i see people not using native res, even worse when they are aware that it exists and actively ignoring it

basically my pet peeve is old people

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: CajoleJuice on November 25, 2011, 07:48:48 AM

I've never really known how big the difference is because I've had a 1080p laptop for 3.5 years, but it has never really able to handle any games at that resolution. So I've been playing games at 1280x800 the entire time on it. :'(

Title: Re: Going from 1080p to 720p = looks like vaseline on the screen
Post by: chronovore on November 25, 2011, 09:28:09 PM

Quote from: Premium Lager on November 24, 2011, 05:35:32 PM

I had my previous desktop hooked up to my 32" telly. Always at 720p.

That's pretty wild.