Good balance between FPS and detail for my P-III 560Mhz and GeForce 256 at 150Mhz core and 175Mhz SDRAM in a 17" monitor.

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Bilko's HQ

Chocks away, back soon old chap and hey, stay away from Mrs Bilko or I'll give you a damn good thrashing with my STICK

Enlève les cales! Je reviens tout de suite mon vieux; et surtout, tu restes bien loin de Mme Bilko ou je te filerai une bonne grosse rouste avec mon BÂTON.

:)

Stan

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Bilko's HQ

Chocks away, back soon old chap and hey, stay away from Mrs Bilko or I'll give you a damn good thrashing with my STICK

Enlève les cales! Je reviens tout de suite mon vieux; et surtout, tu restes bien loin de Mme Bilko ou je te filerai une bonne grosse rouste avec mon BÂTON.

No prizes to guezz vhich...

Second Choice: 800 x 600

To me 800 x 600 doesn't really offer a great deal of graphics improvement over the default 640 x 480, but the Field of View is vastly superior to any other resolution (except for 1600 x 1200, which is said to have the same FoV---but my monitor also only goes to 1280 x 1024, so I can't check it out myself). Again, this is just MY opinion, but 1024 x 768 is the first of the true "high-res" settings. Things look much better than the default or 800 x 600. Unfortunately, the FoV is too small---much smaller than the default; and small enough to hamper gameplay. As a result, my preference is for 1280 x 1024, which provides crisp resolution and has a wider FoV than the default.

I'm running this on a 200Mhz Pentium with a Voodoo 3-2000 PCI and 96MB RAM. In order to get a decent framerate, I have to turn down some graphics settings. "Show Prop in Cockpit" definitely must go. I used to set "Ground Object Detail" to "Low", and this helped quite a bit. However, I've found that with HarryM's WindmillKill, I have less problems and can leave it set to "Medium". The only time framerates seem to get jumpy is when I have that old framerate-killer, a screenful of bombers.

For the Voodoo 5, I don't have one, but according to those who have tried EAW with a V5, 800 x 600 with FSAA gives the same kind of picture that 1280 x 1024 does on an older card! The screenshots they've posted seem to support this.

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Originally posted by Wasp:
I use 1024x768 off-line and 640x480 on-line to reduce the burden on the phone line
Regards
Wasp

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I would love to do 1600x1200, but then I wouldn't be able to read the HUD. I wish someone would come up with a HUD font size add-on/patch.

It's a s high as my 17" monitor will go, but I think it offers the best compromise between image quality and FOV.

At 12x10, you can see planes much more clearly at longer ranges than at 800x600. As a result, I've been able to wean myself almost completely off of the targeting/range indicators, and for me that has boosted the "immersion factor" immeasurably.

(Also, my gunsights look really good at that resolution... )

Good luck!

PR

I had been using 1024 x 768. Tried 1600 x 1200 for the first time last night on my new monitor. WOW! (And I though my previous upgrade to a Rage Fury was good...)

Of course, I had to sell my mother, but.....

Jycceboy