I have a CRT monitor and 8800GTS 640MB.I play crysis in high settings at 10x7 with "4xsuper sampling".It gives me very good performance and it looks better than 1280x960 with 2xMSAA.And it performs better than 12x9 with 2x normall AA.The trees look "almost jaggieless" while in motion.It looks vastly superior to 1280x960 with 2xAA.Super sampling in that res just kills the performance.

And thankz again to a CRT monitor i can play crysis quite well in DX9 very high at 10x7 with 2x supersampling.2xSSAA in 10x7 brings a very slight performance decrease and without super sampling the trees look really bad in 10x7 especially in very high.Perhaps 8800GTX could have allowed me 4xSSAA in very high but my card runs out of breath with that setting.

I think people are missing out by playing crysis on LCD's.

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Crysis is the only game that needs to be played at such low resolutions to keep the IQ up. Every other game runs fine at my 22" lcd's native res with the 8800gt. Im not willing to put my old crt up at 1280x1024 just to play Crysis on a 17" screen.

My desk definitely isn't missing the big bulky CRT. Then of course there are other games that look awsome at high widescreen resolution (Oblivion with everything maxed and HDR @ 1680x1050 for example).

10x7 seems like an awfully high resolution. I might try a lower res wide screen mode like 64x1 which has 6 fewer pixels, never suffers from jaggies, and is much easier to anti-alias.

I play at 16x10 on high in dx10 with the same card. It looks much much better in dx10 than it does in dx9. I have no hiccups or distortions of any kind and get good frame rates.

I had a crt and now have an lcd. I ain't looking back. You should buy one You should also pick up a copy of vista so you can see the difference for yourself.

Yes, but can you notice a difference between LCD and CRT when you are playing with yourself?

You dont have a buy a small screen.You can buy a 21" CRT monitor.So you can do high resolution gaming when you have the horsepower to.My 17" CRT can do 1600x1200 at 75hz but i am not asking anyone to play on a small screen if they dont want to.

And i did try 8x6 with 8xSSAA but it just looks garbage so 10x7 is the lowest you wanna go.

And i am running dual boot and no in DX10 it doesnt look any better in high settings.Very high does look a bit better but the performance is unplayable.

And crysis is certainly not the only game.Dirt also runs like poo and lowering resolution helps especially in a racing game maintaining fps is critical.

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Playing crysis on a small monitor. Great solution.

This is like lowering SAT scores so all of the stupid kids in America can get passing grades.

This is awesome...

Too bad I didn't know you a few years ago, I would have given you 3 great CRTs that I couldn't literally give away. I had to beg people to take them, let alone get any money for them. I currently have an LG L227WTG that I will put up against just about anything. It's the first monitor that a CRT has nothing on. I run crysis at 1440x900 and it looks great.

amazing post OP

I personally play Crysis on a 24 inches LCD @ native 1920*1200, and it look totally awesome. I only get around 20fps, but never get a lag, and no headaches neither. Whay in hell would I want to go back to my old 19" CRT?

I agree that I'll keep the game installed for next year with my future VPU. But there is no way it look as good @ 1024*768 as it does at full HD, even tough not with AA. At that resolution there is no jaggies at all, believe me.

My 2 cents!

My 21" does 1600x1200@87hz

Ive yet to find a game that looks better on LCD than on my CRT's. Ive tried Crysis (DX9 and 10)and oblivion and lotro (dx9 and 10) on a samsung 206bw and a 0.20 dot pitch 19" crt and a 0.24 dot pitch trinitron 21" screen. Both the CRT's are capable of gaming at 2048x1536 at 60hz and 75hz respectively The trinitron screen has by far the best colour of the three followed by the 19" followed by the samsung, the trinitron screen though I find the dot pitch annoying, the 19" CRT with the 0.20 with 4xaa makes jaggies completely a thing of the past. Literally invisible to the eye! With nvidia digital vibrancy turned up the 19" crt can put out a very respectable colour range, just never quite matching the contrast of the trinitron. The ability to scale my resolution to match the games requirements is great, whilst many games I play at 2048x1536 I can play with resolution all I want to get the performance I want out of games with the right level of eye candy.

The samsung LCD is a decent enough monitor viewing angle isues aside, but it can never compete with the lower dot pitch, better colour, better scaling CRT's I have here. I find the pixel size of the samsung lcd fairly hideous compared to my CRT's and it does spoil the experience for me. Unfortunately the CRT's are not getting any younger and Ive lost one of the 19" screens already this year, and my trinitron screen seems to have some slight discolouration in one corner of the screen etc etc, Its next to impossible to find replacement new CRT's these days. I foresee a future with LCD's for me but not willingly , hence I tried the samsung LCD and was dissapointed (I also use sony and sharp LCD screens for windows work - they are well suited to that but horrible to game on)

Old high end CRT's still have the best of image quality out there in my opinion and the best flexibility, they use more power and take up more desk space, but thats something Im quite prepared to live with for the better picture. High end CRT's should not be confused with the cheap CRT's that abounded for many years any more than the best of todays screens should be assumed to perform the same as the worst.

I've seen so many dirt cheap and free CRTs on craigslist, probably 2-3 day for Ann Arbor MI. There was even a guy selling two top of the line 21" CRTs for $40 a piece, and he probably had trouble off loading them. My first LCD was a used 17" samsung and it was head and shoulders above the 17" Sony Trinitron I was using, and I think LCDs are great for gaming too.

The only real advantage that LCD's have over CRT's is that they are much easier on the eyes.

But really i run 100Hz and 85Hz while gaming and i dont get any stains most of the time.

Really? Thats the only reason you can think of? How about not having an 80lb monitor taking up a 3 ft square area on your desk. Or worse, 2 of them. I have a 24" widescreen lcd and a 19" lcd and I can't imagine having to go back. My 8800 gt runs crysis perfectly on almost all high settings at 1920 x 1200. There is really no downside.

If you don't want to spend the money on an LCD, thats fine, but don't pretend that LCDs aren't better in pretty much every way that matters.