I need your help guys. These widescreen questions have been lingering with me for quite a while so here goes.
Have been researching for a new monitor and have liked the Dell 2209WA as it is an IPS panel. I dislike the colour variation as I'm an amateur photographer and I do colour correction work. I LOVE CRT's for their accurate colour technology, atleast more accurate then TN LCD monitors. Old is really gold.
Anyway since CRT's are mostly out, here are questions I had in mind for the Dell 2209WA users or any widescreen user if they can help.
1. Can the Dell 2209WA or any widescreen monitor run, lets say a game at 4:3 resolution of 800x600 or 1024x768 WITHOUT stretching? My aunt plays Plants Vs Zombies and other small but old games which cannot render widescreen res, so I don't want the game to get stretched madly. I don't mind left and right black bars.
2. Is there a button on the monitor to disable stretching or scaling if desired or do you have to do that in the Video card profiles like NVIDIA has?
3. When playing at a lower resolution than the native resolution of the monitor, does text appear unclear? Since I don't have a powerful GPU (8600GT) I cannot afford to play at full HD res. I can therefore play only at the lowest widescreen at 1440 x 900. Running at lower res on a lesser card will ensure higher quality settings in games with perhaps AA, so therefore I can perhaps save money on beastly GPU's + am not so keen on the HD resolutions when gaming. After all I still play on my trusty old 17" CRT monitor...lol
4. Last question, Some forum users have reported that when running games in lesser resolution than the monitor's native res, games appear a bit less jagged even with AA off becoz the pixels are tightly packed (more so in 1920x1080 res)? Therefore this PERCEPTUAL benefit works to your advantage. Is this true? Can you please try it out and confirm that? Please understand that this is a mostly a perceptual benefit not an actual difference.
5. Why is it that it is so difficult to locate whether a panel on a manufacturer's website is IPS or not? Case in point Samsung or Viewsonic. How do you guys locate that info?
Thanks a lot, as you can see I've almost zero experience with widescreen monitors.
Have been researching for a new monitor and have liked the Dell 2209WA as it is an IPS panel. I dislike the colour variation as I'm an amateur photographer and I do colour correction work. I LOVE CRT's for their accurate colour technology, atleast more accurate then TN LCD monitors. Old is really gold.
Anyway since CRT's are mostly out, here are questions I had in mind for the Dell 2209WA users or any widescreen user if they can help.
1. Can the Dell 2209WA or any widescreen monitor run, lets say a game at 4:3 resolution of 800x600 or 1024x768 WITHOUT stretching? My aunt plays Plants Vs Zombies and other small but old games which cannot render widescreen res, so I don't want the game to get stretched madly. I don't mind left and right black bars.
2. Is there a button on the monitor to disable stretching or scaling if desired or do you have to do that in the Video card profiles like NVIDIA has?
3. When playing at a lower resolution than the native resolution of the monitor, does text appear unclear? Since I don't have a powerful GPU (8600GT) I cannot afford to play at full HD res. I can therefore play only at the lowest widescreen at 1440 x 900. Running at lower res on a lesser card will ensure higher quality settings in games with perhaps AA, so therefore I can perhaps save money on beastly GPU's + am not so keen on the HD resolutions when gaming. After all I still play on my trusty old 17" CRT monitor...lol
4. Last question, Some forum users have reported that when running games in lesser resolution than the monitor's native res, games appear a bit less jagged even with AA off becoz the pixels are tightly packed (more so in 1920x1080 res)? Therefore this PERCEPTUAL benefit works to your advantage. Is this true? Can you please try it out and confirm that? Please understand that this is a mostly a perceptual benefit not an actual difference.
5. Why is it that it is so difficult to locate whether a panel on a manufacturer's website is IPS or not? Case in point Samsung or Viewsonic. How do you guys locate that info?
Thanks a lot, as you can see I've almost zero experience with widescreen monitors.
And some monitors look very bad when the resolutions are reduced down of 16xx.