I remember when I did my last system upgrade. Went from Athlon 2200, 1gb, 128mb 5700 AGP to a system that could do what you see (had a 19inch CRT at the time). It's a fantastic change, and congrats on the upgrade.
mUnKi_UnKel wrote:
Just wanted to point out that BF2 sucks with the wide screen monitors. When I started try replacements for my Viewsonic 22" trinitron monitor, I tried a 20.1" widescreen LCD (also from Viewsonic). BF2 does not natively support the resolutions offered in WS. You can force it to strech the picture across it, but that is it. Everything will look a little squashed, but you will eventually get used to it. Eventually, new games will support WS as they are coming out in volume but I do not know if BF2142 will or not. I do recommend the Samsung 20" standard monitor (3:4 ratio) as it is inbetween a 4:5 ratio of 17" and 19" LCDs and the 16:10 ratio of the WS.
mUnKi
I had the opportunity to get a new Dell 24inch WS panel for less than $500 U.S. (the week it came out, so an even better deal at the time), so I of course sold the 20 inch panel and kicked in the rest for the upgrade. I forgot an important detail though. My new native resolution is so high, that I can't play a lot of games at max settings anymore. Native is 1920x1200, and at that, I get big framerate drop of most games I play. Especially Oblivion... COD2 is awesome, but I had to slightly adjust settings to run that resolution. I'm running BF2 at 1600x1200, all high +2xAA to keep decent framerates.
mUnki's right though, BF2's lack of widescreen support sucks. It takes a little getting used to the squashed thing, but it still looks good though.
I mainly got a WS for the non-gaming goodness, but after playing around with a few games that support WS, it rocks. I'm looking forward to wider support!
Specs since it applies to the thread:
not the latest and greatest, but not too bad.
7800GTX, 2gb OCZ Platinum OC'd
A64 3700+ OC'd on A8n Deluxe
UltraSharp 2407WFP
No fancy sound b/c I boycotted Creative years ago.
