Screen resolution

haakon99 · Post by **haakon99** » 16 Mar 2005 09:29

Lets get it out! What resolution are you using?

Arsenal · Post by **Arsenal** » 16 Mar 2005 13:44

Hmm, after 15 votes, there is certainly a lot less people on the the lower resolutions than I'd thought there be.

Mek · Post by **Mek** » 16 Mar 2005 13:48

i'm using:
2 pc's with 800x600
1 laptop with 1280x1024

SkeedR · Post by **SkeedR** » 16 Mar 2005 14:01

640X480 for OTTD

but 1024X768 for normal

Post by **orudge** » 16 Mar 2005 15:39

At home I now use 1280x1024 on my 17" TFT, but I previously used 1024x768. My laptop, the school computers, and most other systems I use now use 1024x768. Occasionally I see the odd machine running 800x600, and some older machines doing 640x480.

Interestingly though, my old-old 15" CRT (before the one I had before my TFT) could run some Allegro DOS-based game demos at up to 1600x1200, but it would be incredibly painful on the eyes... But anyway, for the past couple of years, I've used 1024x768, and now 1280x1024.

Nanaki13 · Post by **Nanaki13** » 16 Mar 2005 16:13

I use 1024x768 on a 17" flat screen CRT.
Anything higher and i can't read the text.
I have my head almost inside the screen anyway.
Bad eyes

LordOfThePigs · Post by **LordOfThePigs** » 16 Mar 2005 16:45

I use 1280x1024 on my 19'' TFT, and have 1024x768 on my laptop (I don't know it's screen size precisely though).

Anyway, here are the statistics for my website, which show that 80% of the people use 1024x768 or 800x600.

You have to keep in mind that OTTD is usually used by computer litterate people (people that can compile the code are obviously computer litterate). So these people tend to have their hardware more up to date, bigger screens etc. because they spend more time looking at their computers screen that anything else during the day.

Alltaken · Post by **Alltaken** » 16 Mar 2005 16:54

usually used by computer litterate people

LOL yeah i actually know people that have good screens that can run fairly high resolutions, that never realised there was even the option to change the resolution.

needless to say without telling them i just change it, and they still don't relise anything is different

Alltaken

Arsenal · Post by **Arsenal** » 16 Mar 2005 17:29

Alltaken wrote:
usually used by computer litterate people
LOL yeah i actually know people that have good screens that can run fairly high resolutions, that never realised there was even the option to change the resolution.

needless to say without telling them i just change it, and they still don't relise anything is different

Alltaken

I know excatly what you mean. My next door neighbour some time ago got a new flat-screen, and was absolutely delighted with. However, they had a small problem with their PC, and ask me to fix it. In a separate issue, I asked if I could adjust the screen a little bit. "Go right ahead" they said.
So I moved the screen display towards the middle, getting rid of that horrible black bars at the top and left of the screen.
"Goodness Gracious" they said, "I didn't know you could do that, and to think, we've been living with that for at least a year!" Doh!
That was the first time they saw a date & time on the bottom-right hand corner!
I re-assured them that they weren't the only ones.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 16 Mar 2005 17:40

1280x1024 here

Hadez · Post by **Hadez** » 16 Mar 2005 19:40

One PC for work with 800x600 and second for playing OTTD with 1024x768.

the_marshal · Post by **the_marshal** » 16 Mar 2005 19:43

1280x960 on an 19'CRT

StavrosG · Post by **StavrosG** » 16 Mar 2005 20:48

1280x1024 on my 17" TFT too...

At work I have 1024x768 on a 14" CRT monitor though.

hawk · Post by **hawk** » 16 Mar 2005 23:32

I use 1024*768

toholio · Post by **toholio** » 17 Mar 2005 03:26

1440 x 900, native resolution of the LCDs in the 17-inch iMac G5s.

I've got a second monitor connected but that's not much use for OpenTTD.

Koalabaerchen · Post by **Koalabaerchen** » 17 Mar 2005 04:00

1600x1200 on my left, 1280x1024 on my right screen

haakon99 · Post by **haakon99** » 17 Mar 2005 13:34

After 62 votes, only 3 has 800 x 600. Impressive.
But 1 at 640 X 480. And 256 colours? Scaring.

Håkon

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 17 Mar 2005 14:22

Perhaps not exactly relevant, but these are the stats of ttdpatch.net visitors:

LordOfThePigs · Post by **LordOfThePigs** » 17 Mar 2005 14:26

It looks like our stats agree. My site targets an audience that's not geeky at all, so I have slightly lower resolutions, but still...

ThorRune · Post by **ThorRune** » 17 Mar 2005 15:04

1024x768, tho my monitor can do 1600x1000-something, because that's what suits the eies best. If i put it higher, everything turns too small for my liking... Hurts my eies

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