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rankothefiremage
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Sins at 1680x1050 res, new system after 5 years

January 22, 2009 1:24:49 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

For the last 5 years my loyal desktop has served me well but sadly nothing lasts forever

Her specs:

Ruriruri

Intel P4 Prescott 2.4ghz, Geforce fx 5500, 2 gig ddr ram, 150 gig raptor, and win 2k.

will soon be fully replaced with

Ruriruri II

AMD Phenom II 3.0ghz, Geforce GTX 260, 4 gig DDR2 ram, 320 gig hd, and for now Win XP32

When i get a 64 bit os i'll use it, and also go to 8 gigs ram and pick up a V-raptor for boot.

 

But over all running sins at 1680x 1050 res almost made me pass out, wow it feels good to play on a desktop rather than windowed on my laptop.

 

-Gabe

 

 

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Hack78
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Reply #1 January 22, 2009 5:47:27 AM
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You should try 1900 like me on a 24"!!!!

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TorchedGeek
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Reply #2 January 22, 2009 6:43:01 AM
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1680x1050 isn't a bad resolution to be playing on at all; that's what I run on my PC (not Sins though; not a fan of space games particularily) only problem occurs when games aren't made for widescreen or the developers 'cheated' widescreen, otherwise it's great.

Edit: What I am curious of though is why you are running on the dragon platform (Phenom II etc.) with a Geforce graphics card? The dragon platform is optimised to work with AMD GPUs.

 

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voidcore
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Reply #3 January 22, 2009 7:39:26 AM
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But over all running sins at 1680x 1050 res almost made me pass out, wow it feels good to play on a desktop rather than windowed on my laptop.

 

Desktop beats laptop in gaming all day everyday all year for the next millenium of all time in space time to the end of the galaxy and further to the resturant at the end of the universe goodbye and thanks for the fish!

Now go get a larger screen 24" 1920x1200,true full widescreen hd gaming would blow you away.. they even sell 26 inch screens now i want one but i guess ill have to make due with the 24"......  hmm i think my wife would notice if i suddenly had a even bigger screen and an extra 24".... need to use my  gear and awesome  training to get it into the home

 

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Reply #4 January 22, 2009 9:28:55 AM
from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

i just got the 22" ACER one i'm using, so no changes there, i also wanted to sync res with my laptop.

and as far as gpu, i like nvidia, as a linux dabbler i know that they have better cross platform driver support, not to mention i've used nvidia since the mx 2 i had in my 98se box (still used for classic games) even my laptop has a 7600 in it.

 

 

-Gabe

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