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Will lower resolution help FPS?
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Post by
Parl
Dumb question, I assume the answer is yes?
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Parl
I've been playing on a laptop but switched from caster to melee and I'm finding fps lag is affecting game play more now. I don't really feel like building a computer since I haven't done it in a few years, but I've been looking around and it seems like it's the best choice for the price range I'm looking at if all I want is a desktop that will play WoW nicely for around ~$500.
Post by
drbob3002
I don't know much about this type of thing but I highly doubt a lower resolution will help much at all. Even if it does it probably isn't worth looking at a distorted screen.
All resolution does is stretch the screen to fit your monitor. It isn't improving the graphics or anything.
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dizzll
Scaling/rendering- decrease distances rendered and object detail, resolution makes little effect
Post by
Domh
All resolution does is stretch the screen to fit your monitor. It isn't improving the graphics or anything.
I'm not even going to try and figure out how you reached that conclusion. Increasing the resolution quite obviously increases the level of detail rendered. It won't affect the eye candy effects much, but it WILL improve your graphics detail.
It also requires your system to render more pixels. The fact you now have more pixel real estate also means that more of a texture can be rendered, or that small objects in the distance that were only a pixel or two before can now be rendered enough to see shapes. Additionally, if you're going from 4:3 aspect ratio to widescreen it's going to have to render more polygons and textures on the side too.
If between more detail, and potentially more view on the sides, you can't call the changes an improvement in graphics. . . well you're obviously not a hardcore gamer.
To the OP, I'd like to point out that it will affect your framerate, but you'll only see a large impact in low end systems where everything else has already been turned down.
For example, my last laptop had a Radeon x200 graphics card. This anemic video card had me leaving settings on low, and still was a tad slow. When I reduced the resolution from 1200x800 to 1024x768 I'd see a decent jump in framerates (5-10) - but at this point the resolution was about all that was left to reduce. Then I look at my current laptop with a Radeon HD 2600; reducing the resolution on this laptop has very little effect, especially compared to reducing other settings like shadow detail, as the sheer pixel pushing power is not a large limit on this.
In short, unless your video card is underpowered for the resolution you're trying to use you shouldn't see too much difference. A jump from 1900x1200 to 800x600 might get a decent fps boost, but if you have to do something that drastic odds are that you have other issues to deal with in your setup.
Good luck.
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