October 30, 200421 yr ..you should consider to get another monitor. I received my Sony 24" 16/10 monitor today and I am absolutely amazed. I am sitting about half a yard in front of it and it almost fills my view. For the first time I can let my eyes wander around the screen. In the VC with TrackIR the sim sucks you in. I have a lot of hardware, GoFlight units, throttle quadrant, touchscreen for the GPS etc., but this is by far the best addition to the sim yet.I guess the model is discontinued and is available on the net all over the place for reasonable money. I have seen it for as little as
October 30, 200421 yr Yes but you get better colours and more res to play with. As well as better brightness and no ghosting :)
October 30, 200421 yr Wow... 24" is really another dimension. I'm currently sitting in front of my tiny 15" Trinitron monitor and I will also consider buying a new old CRT model before they're finally disappearing from the market. I don't think they're much better than the newest TFT models, but it is simply a question of what you get for your money.Alex, what resolution do you use with your screen? And don't you have to deal with black stripes resulting from the 16:10 ratio? Just curious...Holger
October 30, 200421 yr 1980x1200 or something you can check out the hardware forum he mention it there :).I am jelous too :D
October 30, 200421 yr Naw I am no longer interested in lugging around a tank that takes up half my desk when one can have just as GOOD of performance in an LCD as this one on order for me and take up 1/3 the space! http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=vp912b&page=1Randy Smith Randy J Smith
October 30, 200421 yr In fact it is 1920x1080, and no there are no stripes. This resolution fills the whole monitor. But it will only work corectly in the VC as the 2D panels are made for a 4:3 ratio. As I only fly from the VC it don't matter to me. 1920x1080 can put a lot of stress to the graphics adaptor especially when you use a two monitor setup so I made my own resolution with power strip. I am now running at 1536x960 until I get a faster card that can handle the high resolution without a fps hit.Alex
October 30, 200421 yr I really don't see where a 4:3 panel with 19" can do what the 24" 16:10 can do for you. The whole point is that it fills almost all your eyesight and therefore produces a much more intense sim feeling. And then the native res of 1280x1024 where is the point with the newer graphics cards that can do almost any res without a fps hit.Space is of no concern for me either, as my cockpit with glaresheld has taken 9/10th of the desk anyway ...LOL.BTW I see this wandering into the hardware forum, which was not the intention of the post. I just wanted to point out how underestimated a big screen is for the sim experience.Alex
October 30, 200421 yr I did just setup fs2004 on a friends new computer yesterday. He has a LG 17'TFT monitor running on 1280x1024. First thing I noticed is that colours are rendered much less realistic than on my monitor (sony G400 19'). Much too flashy and cartoonish. Also autogen objects don't blend too good into the surrounding textures colour vice. The image seems too dark too. I couldn't really fix it with brightness/contrast control of the monitor...I haven't seen fs2004 running on much different TFT's, but I'm still very happy with the quality provided by my rather old CRT monitor.Claudio
October 30, 200421 yr Moreover 1280x1024 is not the corrcet resolution for a 4:3 screen. Objects are distorted. The correct res would be 1280x960.Alex
October 30, 200421 yr Widescreens are more pleasant for the eyes that is why movies use the 16x9 ratio.But yeah TFT is good but their colours are not accurate. A bit hindered by their 24-bit limitation. But some like it colours. I would say it
October 30, 200421 yr 24" monitor., sounds good!., with the amount of #### in my room im sure i could fit the beast in my room somewhere!On a related subject i wonder if it is possible to run fs9 into a widescreen with a reasonably undegraded signal? CheersDan:)
October 30, 200421 yr From experience I can tell you that 16:10 is no problem for the sim at all. In 3D it looks perfect. No distortion at all. 2D is tretched of course. Would take some panel work. Screenie looks like crap due to compression as I am on dial-up.Alexhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/96017.jpg
October 30, 200421 yr Movies don't actually use an aspect ratio of 16 : 9, this aspect ratio is something close to what you see in movies but not the same.
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