It looks wonderful, although text is quite small but it is readable with the aid of my reading glasses.
My question is that the TV does not support a multiple range of resolutions like a LCD monitor would so a few full screen games that I have tried has failed to work.
I am wondering if this is just an issue with the TV. Well when I tried Maple Story that worked fine but another game I want to play is Rise of Nations. When I boot it up it displays the screen and everything but then my mouse pointer wont move. I can still highlight options but the game mouse pointer is stuck and wont work.
WHen I load up Star wars knights of the old republic, i see the logo but its huge and off to the side.
I dont know if it is because my computer can not handle the resolution these full screen games want to run at by default.
I am wondering now if i should invest in a monitor with hdmi capability and built-in speakers to solve this problem.
Suggestion:
those games may not be rendering properly in the 1920×1080 resolution. it may not be an officially supported resolution. easily fixed if you make them open as windows rather than full screen.
check the manual or game manufacturer's website for addition support.
I've had problems like that with some of my old games, like need for speed SE (1996), Populous (1998) and Deus Ex GOTY (1999) where it doesn't actually support laptop or widescreen resolutions, so things show up distorted, off centered, or not at all ("out of scan range" error)
All my newer games except Deus Ex IW (2002?) will support a wide variety of resolutions ranging from 640×480 (min) to 2560×1600 (max). Simply run the game in windowed mode or use a different monitor do solve the issue.
I haven't had issues like that with any of my newer games- Half Life series, Half Life 2, Crysis, and most other steam games even when I use my dad's 52" 1080p TV. All HDTVs are able to run in a variety of resolutions: SDTV (640×480), EDTV (720×480), VGA (800×600 and/or 1024×768), HDTV (1280×720 and/or 1920×1080). If your HDTV can display non-HD video feeds then it will be able to display those resolutions. its just depends on whether your computer can do that or not.
Because I cannot clearly read the text on a 1080 screen I usually run it either at 720, 848, or 960 (vertical res) My computer graphics card is able to display in nearly any known resolution, and able to display in any custom resolution up to 2560×1600. Not all graphic cards can do that.
There is also major performance drops the bigger the display. a high resolution HDTV, even if its just a few mega pixels isn't always a good idea depending on how powerful your PC is. Low frame rates = high lag and poor game and video rendering performance.
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I like you, use my computer hooked to a HDTV a 61", and yes you would think everything would be huge on a 61", it's not. Not when you set the resolution to 1920×1080. Here are a couple of things I do to assist with that probelm in windows. First of all this is for windows 7, go to start/control panel/appearance and personalization/display and you will see make your text appear larger and you can select 100% which is the small text which you have now, 125%, and 150%. You lose a little for size when you go 150% but on my TV that is what I like the best. Secondly, when you get onto internet explorer, this text isn't affected by the setting you just changed, only windows objects are affected. So in the bottom right and corner of your browsing window, there is a setting down there, on your browser it might say 100%, I run this setting all the time at 150%. Makes my webpages very easy for the average person to read at a distance, but still doesn't make you have to scroll across at the bottom of the page…
In XP to find that first setting I was telling you about, you have to go to control panel/display properties, and use the advanced tab, then in XP it has like 96p text, and 120p text, just choose the 120p. Same thing but the two words it differently. I know there is a setting in vista, and I think it is done the same as XP, just don't quote me, but you set it to 120P as well. Now in internet explorer, it is the same, down in the right hand corner on all 3 operating systems…
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