Re: [GD-General] More screen res love (tile graphics)

[Brian H. <ho...@py...>]

>Ok i see.  So what is the advantage of going to a higher=
 resolution
>on a 2d game which has fixed resolution art to begin with?  Is=
 is
>just the artifacts with LCD monitors?  Sorry for all the=
 questions,
>but i'm interested. =3D)

That is the gist of it.  Running at a resolution other than the 
native LCD resolution looks really bad -- not in a "this is kinda=
 
crappy" way, but in a "this is pretty damned illegible" kind of=
 way.  
So just going fullscreen is actually worse than running windowed.=
  I 
tried playing Homeworld the other day, and it has a cap of=
 1024x768.  
When I tried to run it, I pretty much couldn't read the menus on=
 my 
Viewsonic VA800.

So if you make a game at higher resolutions, you're now doing=
 some 
really weird supersampling that's completely wrong and looks like=
 
crap.  Probably the worst case I can envision is what we're=
 trying to 
do: 1024x768 on a 1280x1024 LCD, which looks WAY worse than a=
 640x480 
game on a 1280x1024 LCD.

Brian