rF + 22" widescreen == wow!

Hi folks, the 22" FSC scaleoview arrived in the mail today, and all I can say is, wow. Good riddance to the last CRT getting decommissioned in our household, while it's served me well, I prefer the 60 Watts in power saving, and the awesome experience to actually having to turn your head in order to look at all the track and cockpit detail on this monster. FPS hit isn't too bad (as DaveGF already hinted at) going from 1280x1024 to 1800x1050 or whatever, maybe 10--15 fps on most rf custom tracks on the AGP x800 ATI GTO card. Cheers & all the best, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

"Uwe Sch�rkamp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > FPS hit isn't too bad (as DaveGF already hinted at) going from 1280x1024 > to 1800x1050 or whatever, maybe 10--15 fps on most rf custom tracks on > the AGP x800 ATI GTO card. 1680x1050 is a bit much for some games, depending on your video card and how much video ram it has. You can run it at a lower res and it should still look decent. Just find another 16:10 res that scales down well. Some resolutions scale better than others. Try 1280x800. That res looks good on my friend's 22" LCD.

Uwe Sch�rkamp wrote:

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> Hi folks, > > the 22" FSC scaleoview arrived in the mail today, and all I can say is, > wow. Good riddance to the last CRT getting decommissioned in our > household, while it's served me well, I prefer the 60 Watts in power > saving, and the awesome experience to actually having to turn your head > in order to look at all the track and cockpit detail on this monster. > > FPS hit isn't too bad (as DaveGF already hinted at) going from 1280x1024 > to 1800x1050 or whatever, maybe 10--15 fps on most rf custom tracks on > the AGP x800 ATI GTO card. > > Cheers & all the best, uwe

Thanks for the report, Uwe. I've got a nice 20" Trinitron, but those big flatscreens are sooooo tempting. It sounds like my X800XL just might be able to drive one without too much performance loss. Hum..... ;) -Greg

"Greg Campbell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Ur9ti.67196$[email hidden]...

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> Uwe Sch�rkamp wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> the 22" FSC scaleoview arrived in the mail today, and all I can say is, >> wow. Good riddance to the last CRT getting decommissioned in our >> household, while it's served me well, I prefer the 60 Watts in power >> saving, and the awesome experience to actually having to turn your head >> in order to look at all the track and cockpit detail on this monster. FPS >> hit isn't too bad (as DaveGF already hinted at) going from 1280x1024 >> to 1800x1050 or whatever, maybe 10--15 fps on most rf custom tracks on >> the AGP x800 ATI GTO card. Cheers & all the best, uwe > > Thanks for the report, Uwe. I've got a nice 20" Trinitron, but those big > flatscreens are sooooo tempting. It sounds like my X800XL just might be > able to drive one without too much performance loss. > > Hum..... ;) > > -Greg >

I run a Samsung 244T 24" widescreen with a native resolution of 1920 X 1200 and a PCI-E X850 XT does fine. I run it on two systems with my main gaming machine on the DVI input and the system with the X815 on the analog. My gaming system has two 8800GTX cards in SLI and a Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.4GHz so no problem there but the other system with a P4 I-630 @ 3.6GHz and the X850 does quite well with FSX on medium graphics settings. Ed >