Hi Mackenrick,
You're welcome!
Mackenrick Wrote:
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| Thanks again Jimmy,
|
| Sounds like good advice. I'll try the FRAPS.
|
|
|| Hi Mackenrick,
||
|| What I recommend you do is install a utility called Fraps.
|| You can download it from safe sites like downloads.com
||
|| This utility sits in your system tray and will show you the
|| FPS (Frames Per Second) performance you're getting in
|| the game. You can then compare the performance using
|| different resolution settings to find your ideal / sweet spot.
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| Mackenrick Wrote:
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||| Thanks Jimmy,
||| One more question. Will it help my game run a little smoother if I change
||| the monitor resolution to match the in game resolution before I play the
||| game? I have a monitor display setting in my systems tray so it is fairly
||| easy to switch back and forth.
|||
||| The reason I'm asking is that the video card I have (Radeon 8500) is about
||| at it's limit trying to run this game (MechWarrior Mercs.) on this LCD
||| monitor. (Note: It ran great when I was using a CRT monitor).
|||
||| Thanks for the help. Mac
|||
|||| Hi Mackenrick,
||||
|||| Typically speaking, your ingame video settings determine the resolution
|||| that the game will be played at. Normally, it's best to have the ingame
|||| resolution match the desktop resolution, but that's not always possible.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
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|||| Mackenrick Wrote:
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||||| If the video resolution can be set in the gaming program (example: set at
||||| 800x600) and the LCD monitor resolution is set at 1280x1024, at what
||||| resolution does the game play? The game resolution or the monitor resolution.
|||||
||||| If the game can only be played at 800 x 600, should I reset the monitor to
||||| 800x600 before playing the game?
|||||
||||| The reason I'm asking is that if I try to set the game at anything more then
||||| 800x600 I start to get jerky movement because of the LCD monitor.
|||||
||||| Thank you.
|||||
||||| PS: Any information or links on LCD monitors and gaming will be appreciated
