Stupid question about resolution

[Harry Botter]

Ok, this may sound stupid but I just wondered today. Here are my specs before the question.

Samsung 23.6" 1920x1080 lcd monitor
Gigabyte 7950 3gb gpu
i5-3570k cpu
I am using a DVI cable to connect my gpu and monitor

Will Skyrim or any other game capable of running 1080p run in 1080p by default? I just got curious tonight about it. I have all settings in Skyrim turned all the way up and the hi res texture package. So yeah just curious how games determine if thye run 1080p or not. I also have not had a set up like this long so yeah.

[tears]

well it depends, most of the LCD's are non-interlaced so yeah. dunno about the default resolution but you can surely set it to 1920x1080 (remember that 1080p and 1080i are only video modes, not computer resolutions)

[DarkEden]

When you launch skyrim you first get the Launcher, if you check under config you will see the resolution the game is running on. Most monitors thats 1080p get a warning on the screen saying that the preferred resolution is 1920x1080, if you get this then you know for sure that you are not running in 1080p

[Deleted]

Your spec won't launch Skyrim.


It will blast it to pieces. And then launch the bits. :P



Idk about the 1080p but that is a nice rig.

[tears]

ah crap me, i thought this was about a resolution and not about his rig being powerful enough to rolla stupid game

[Harry Botter]

Like I said it was most likely a stupid question. But yeah. I waited many years and literally had to break my back to get this comp.

@coolkingler1 thanks. Before I moved to Ohio where I have to have satellite internet and could play online games I went from a laptop lucky to get 10 fps in Diablo 3 to 200+ without vsync on. So it was a huge leap for me.