What is the lowest PC screen resolution?

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Post by HexaDoken » Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:46 pm

What is the lowest PC screen resolution you have ever used and/or seen anyone else using? I personally haven't seen anything below 1024x768(or 1024x600 for netbooks) in a LONG while.

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Post by Dark-Assassin » Sun Aug 18, 2013 1:14 pm

320x200 is the absolute lowest, and I have used that resolution for years.
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Post by mr fiat » Sun Aug 18, 2013 1:59 pm

i think most people use theyr monitor's native resolution, given theyr pc can handle it. lowest res i have used for a realy long time would be 640x480 which is the default zan res iirc, this was because our family pc at the time couldnt handle zh that well so i had to put everything on as low possible settings as i could.

but a while later i got my own proper pc and upgraded the gpu on that and i always stuck to the native res of my monitor at the time which was 1366x768.

now on my current pc i always use 1920x1080 and i never go lower then that.

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Post by Medicris » Sun Aug 18, 2013 2:47 pm

I keep hearing from competitive players to stick to 800x600. I usually don't go under my native res of 1440x900 unless I can help it, but for CRTs I don't see why 800x600 would look too bad. If I had a CRT, I'd probably use that or 1024x768, too.

Lowest I've seen supported on any machine I've played on was 320x200. Couldn't see shit with it.

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Post by Klofkac » Sun Aug 18, 2013 9:31 pm

For zan the lowest possible resolution is 640x480 for openGL and 320x200 for software.
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Post by ibm5155 » Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:12 pm

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1333x768 (limit of windows 8)
320x200 (zandronum [soft and gl], and even on need for speed run rofl)
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Post by Cruduxy » Mon Aug 19, 2013 12:33 am

640X480.. Don't get how anyone see in lower resolutions without feeling dizzy anyway (Used 320X200 for long and wont repeat)
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Post by ibm5155 » Mon Aug 19, 2013 12:40 am

Cruduxy wrote: 640X480.. Don't get how anyone see in lower resolutions without feeling dizzy anyway (Used 320X200 for long and wont repeat)
320x200 is the lowest here, but I never used it since my old pentium 3 with that cooler mods (armageddon, who dun it xD)
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Post by The Endertainer » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:24 am

I always play on 800X640....but on windowed mode
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Post by Ijon Tichy » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:32 am

I've used 320x200 windowed.

Made even OpenGL feel a lot like doom2.exe graphically.

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Post by Klofkac » Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:29 am

Spoiler: OK these are all resolutions I can use in my zan (Open)
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Note that all these resolutions work flawlessly without any interpolation (CRT).
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Post by Nati46 » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:08 am

1680x1050... Don't get what is so good about this "competitive" res of 800x600... I can see just everything I need with my resolution while keeping my eyes from beong sore.
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Post by HexaDoken » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:12 pm

I should of PROBABLY mention that I meant the PC screen resolution and not zandronum/other games resolution. But eh, whatever. This might help too.

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Post by -Jes- » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:44 pm

1280x800 windowed is what I've been using for years.

I can't fathom there are people still hardware-stuck at sub-1024x resolutions.
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Post by Tux » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:48 pm

HexaDoken wrote: I should of PROBABLY mention that I meant the PC screen resolution and not zandronum/other games resolution. But eh, whatever. This might help too.
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Post by Empyre » Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:47 am

I used PC-DOS, 640x200, 2 colors, text-only, 16K RAM, floppy drive and no hard drive. So, when I saw Doom in 320x200 with 256 colors, it looked amazing. Obviously, it wasn't still the same PC.
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Post by Zakken » Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:52 am

Lowest was 320x200 for me. Never seen anything below that.

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Post by Klofkac » Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:25 am

Interesting. That's what I got from possible resolutions in software Zan:
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Post by Blasphyx » Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:44 pm

I still like 320x200 for oldschool maps. The low resolution makes the simpler architecture look less plain and you don't see the obvious gradient lines in the distance that you would in higher resolutions. Otherwise, I'll use 1600x900 with open gl and hqn4x filter. ...I would use 5040x900 if Zandro supported multimonitor resolutions.
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Post by Laggy Blazko » Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:05 am

I usually use 1024X768 or 800X600 and I switch to 320X240 when I feel like it.
(And I find 320X240 + windowed mode funny)

How do I enable 320X200? I can't find it in my video menu.

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