I'm considering getting a Dell widescreen monitor and I've read that somebody ran LFS at 1680*1050 (the native res of the said monitor). I can't see it in my LFS screen modes section with 'show non-square modes' enabled. At the moment I use 1280*1024 with a 17" tft which of course has a max res of 1280*1024, is this why no bigger modes are showing?

So basically I would like to know is the option for bigger resolutions (specifiaclly 1680*1050) available when you have a monitor that can support them?

lfs automatically shows all avaivable resolutions (enable the option over the box). i have a dell-laptop and play lfs with 1440x900 (16:10) too

Great, thanks!

yeah, I also play on Dell laptop, but LFS runs too slow in the maximum resolution so I had to tweak the inf file of the nvidia driver.
I've replaced 1024x768 with 1024x640, then in LFS have selected "show non-standard videomodes", and I got my 16:10 in the low resolution.

I play LFS at 1920x1200 on my Inspiron XPS gen 2 laptop

Runs like a dream

heres a screen

I'm with a friend's dell laptop, display is 1680x1050 and it displays well. (not very good framerate though at this res with the mobile 5200fx 32M). but it works

I use a non-standard resolution with my Sony Wega 42". 1184x684 because the oversan takes a 1/2" off all the way around. LFS is great at using any reolution you can set your video card at. You should have no problem.

Mmm sounds good. I just don't know if I can justify spending that much just to play games bigger and watch tv on a nice screen. Hmm, I'll have to think about it more. But anyway, good to know about the different res options.

Quote from pb32000 :

...I just don't know if I can justify spending that much just to play games bigger and watch tv on a nice screen....

but that is what the screen is made for:woohoo:

Quote from pb32000 :

I'm considering getting a Dell widescreen monitor and I've read that somebody ran LFS at 1680*1050 (the native res of the said monitor). I can't see it in my LFS screen modes section with 'show non-square modes' enabled. At the moment I use 1280*1024 with a 17" tft which of course has a max res of 1280*1024, is this why no bigger modes are showing?

So basically I would like to know is the option for bigger resolutions (specifiaclly 1680*1050) available when you have a monitor that can support them?

What Dell are you thinking about? The 20" i've been looking at goes to 1600x1200 and it is 16:10 too - but I guess it will get non-square pixels. What model is it? the model i look at is: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP 20" performance LCD Flat Panel Monitor:

http://dellware.euro.dell.com/ ... p;co=&b=DDK_200-23359

I have read that some Dell TFT screen (24' iirc) was very bright, actually so bright that you have to set the gamma to 0.2 in order to get a good looking picture...

If I had the money, I would get a BenQ 23':
http://www.prad.de/guide/screen1211.html

Im sorry it's in German, but you can search your own data sheets with the name:
BenQ FP231W

Quote from Scope :

What Dell are you thinking about? The 20" i've been looking at goes to 1600x1200 and it is 16:10 too - but I guess it will get non-square pixels. What model is it? the model i look at is: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP 20" performance LCD Flat Panel Monitor:

http://dellware.euro.dell.com/ ... p;co=&b=DDK_200-23359

What makes you think it's 16:10?

1600x1200 ... is more like 16:12, heh

Perhaps, it might even be 4:3... wow

maybe, yes :P

Quote from Scope :

What Dell are you thinking about? The 20" i've been looking at goes to 1600x1200 and it is 16:10 too - but I guess it will get non-square pixels. What model is it? the model i look at is: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP 20" performance LCD Flat Panel Monitor:

http://dellware.euro.dell.com/ ... p;co=&b=DDK_200-23359

Thats the 4:3 format one as people have said. I was looking at the 2005FPW which is 20" widescreen. Then there's the 2405FPW as Orion said which is 24" @ 1900*1200, but thats like £700 here.

Quote from ColeusRattus :

Perhaps, it might even be 4:3... wow

16:10 is some kind of stange marketing anyway.

why don't they call it 8:5? i guess 16:10 sounds bigger...

"hey, i got my new 16:9 flatscreen"
"bah, lamer, i got a 16:10!"



maybe 4:3 needs to be upgraded to 16:12?

You're all noobs, my monitor is 49380 : 37035!!!

Vain

Quote from inCogNito :

16:10 is some kind of stange marketing anyway.

why don't they call it 8:5? i guess 16:10 sounds bigger...

"hey, i got my new 16:9 flatscreen"
"bah, lamer, i got a 16:10!"



maybe 4:3 needs to be upgraded to 16:12?

I guess its 16:10 so its comparable to 16:9. Widescreen is a bit of a marketing ploy altogether, you get more real estate with the 20" 4:3 screen, but people like widescreen and its fairly widely used these days so people will continue to buy it.