Hi Greenie,<<It wasn't necessarily FS I was talking about. Just the whole windows view in general. Even though my eyesight is 20/20 the smaller icons, smaller text, etc was not worth the additional gain I saw in FS. Sure, I can choose any resolution in FS full screen mode, but most of my flying is in a window, so I'm stuck with whatever the desktop res is set at.>>
My graphics card (Ti4600 128Mb RAM) and monitor (19" Iiyama Pro 454) allow me to run FS2002 at very high resolutions but my preferred ones are 1280*1024 and occasionally 1600*1200. I have pushed it to 1920*1440 and even 2048*1536 but the refresh rate dropped to 75Hz and flicker was annoying.
I could change Windows settings so that fonts and icons would be as large at these very high resolutions as they are at my preferred resolution of 1280*1024 but despite the high quality of the Iiyama it's best at 1280*1024. Geometry also suffers once you really push it but I still prefer the visual display (and flexibility) of a CRT over a TFT screen with its fixed resolution. Give me a few more years though and I suspect that opinion will change.
I should also confirm that frame rates didn't take any hit at all up to 1600*1200 and only started to drop off at 1920*1440. Even with AA running at 1280*1024 there was no reduction in frame rates showing how powerful the Ti4600 is. Of course once you get to 1280*1024 or higher there's very little point in enabling AA anyway.
Regards,
Ray Proudfoot,
Cheshire, England
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