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Geek Culture / How do I use larger screen resolutions?

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Libervurto
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 18:40
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My screen can do 1920x1080 but this looks like total crap on my PC. The text is too small, things look oddly blurry and websites are never laid out for this resolution. Surely there are lots of you out there with monitors at least as good as mine, so how do you get it to look good?


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Seditious
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 19:04
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What is your monitor's native resolution? It may be upscaling to achieve 1920x1080, which never looks good.

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mr Handy
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 19:31
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Quote: "My screen can do 1920x1080 but this looks like total crap on my PC."

what is a screen

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Libervurto
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 20:40 Edited at: 6th Nov 2013 20:40
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Quote: "what is a screen"

It's a device for separating oneself from people who ask silly questions.


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mr Handy
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 20:57 Edited at: 6th Nov 2013 21:01
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If your monitor can do full hd and you set full hd resolution on PC - everything should be fine. Maybe you did something wrong. And there is no info to figure out what you may did wrong.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 21:06
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Can your monitor go higher? What are your available resolutions? The only way to increase your resolution is if you buy a monitor with a higher native resolution. There's no way (that I know of) to increase one's native resolution on a monitor.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 21:49
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I checked the user manual and Seditious is right, it is upscaling to 1920x1080, the native resolution is only 1360x768.


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Kezzla
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 22:13
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I have a 1920 x 1080 monitor

for net things i use firefox and ctrl + Scroll to find the perfect size for a page.

Dunno about the blurriness, mine looks good. show us a screenie of what it looks like.

here is mine for reference.

Burn retina, burn!

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mr Handy
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 22:25
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Quote: "I checked the user manual and Seditious is right, it is upscaling to 1920x1080, the native resolution is only 1360x768."

Yay, sometimes solution is so simple

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 6th Nov 2013 22:31
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Quote: "I checked the user manual and Seditious is right, it is upscaling to 1920x1080, the native resolution is only 1360x768."


Oh yeesh, man, get with the times! 2560x1440 is where it's at! Just wait until 4K (or UltraHD) displays start to hit, too!

On Newegg I'm sure you can find some decent full HD monitors for less than $150 USD, though.

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Indicium
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 00:20
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What on earth is the point in upscaling?


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mr Handy
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 16:05 Edited at: 7th Nov 2013 16:07
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Quote: "What on earth is the point in upscaling?"

Upscaling is useful when DVD movie upscales to Full HD for fake blu-ray releases (hate those).

But this is downscaling, useful when you need large space, like for 3ds max GUI, but your monitor suck and panning is unwelcome.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 16:56
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Quote: "If your monitor can do full hd and you set full hd resolution on PC"

I hate the term HD. Technically anything above 480 is HD. So really, at 1366x768 his monitor is still fully HD.

Unless your monitor is at least 21", it's a good chance it doesn't handle 1080 natively (laptops excluded).

I just picked up a 21.5" Gateway monitor from Microcenter for under $100 and it does 1080. But my main screen is a 24" westinghouse that does a full 1200. Yea that's right, 16:10 like it should be!

http://zimnox.com
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Indicium
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 17:09
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Quote: "Upscaling is useful when DVD movie upscales to Full HD for fake blu-ray releases (hate those)."


What's the point in upscaling ON the monitor? I can't see a single usage.


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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 17:14
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Yeah, upscaling on a monitor is kind of weird. We had one old monitor that did it a long time ago (big ol' CRT with a native resolution of 1152x854, amazing freakin' quality! ), and it looked like crap. It scaled incorrectly on a lot of images, and lots of aliasing showed up on games and other things requiring high frame rates.

Better to buy the thing with the resolution you want than to attempt upscaling!

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Wolf
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 17:22
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Use its native resolution or buy a proper monitor (Check its native resolution and quality before purchase...a monitor is something I'd go to the store for and take a look at rather than buying online)



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Phaelax
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I'm with you wolf. Gotta see it in person.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 8th Nov 2013 04:44 Edited at: 8th Nov 2013 04:45
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Quote: "What's the point in upscaling ON the monitor? I can't see a single usage.
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So the output device doesn't have to scale it. They filter so pixels that don't map on a one to one basis still have some visible impact. A straight linear scale would drop pixels when scaling down and looks even worse.


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Indicium
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Why would you do this rather than supporting 1080p input?


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mr Handy
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Posted: 8th Nov 2013 07:00
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Quote: "What's the point in upscaling ON the monitor? I can't see a single usage."

Converting from high to low resolution is known as "downconversion" or "downscaling".

Upscaling on monitor is needed when you want to play an old 640x480 game in full screen, not in the native tiny window.

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