How big is yours? .. and do you stretch it, or leave it alone?

I'm curious to find out how big your RL... umm... MONITOR is
And also what resolution you run SL at? Widescreen or no?

I just replaced my old dual video cards with a shiny new GTX260 and I'm getting interesting results trying to find a suitable higher resolution setting that doesn't stretch or squish SL, and doesn't screw up all the fonts. I always run SL in a window so that messes with the aspect a little bit. On the old cards I was running at 1280 x 720 stretched, which gave me the right aspect for SL and the fonts were good. But now that I got this powerful video card, combined with the 22" LG flatscreen I blew santa for, there's no reason why I cant crank it up and enjoy it.
I'm at 1600 x 900 stretched now, which took forever to pin down. It's the right aspect for SL, but the fonts are just whacked.. grainy and most difficult to read. The same goes for 1360 x 768. Other settings like 1280 x 1024 unstretched are beautiful but give me letterbox on the sides. 1440 x 900 looks great, but makes AV's in SL look like they spent too much time at the all you can eat buffet. Anything higher than like 1600 is just too small. So what's yours set at?
I suppose I could always go back to what I was running before, but now after seeing the high rez pretty, the big giant desktop icons of that resolution remind me of those big fatty training pencils they give to little kids
Thanx

/me giggles at the title

My laptop has a 17" WSXGA (1440x900) display. I run SL windowed, in a 1000x700 window (no idea where the numbers came from; that's the default size that SL ran in when I first installed it, and I've been running it at that resolution ever since).

Oooh, sigalert!

As for fuzzy text... For the time being, try your resizing experiments with the 1.22.11 viewer. v1.23.4 has known text issues, including blurry text on nVidia cards (I found a workaround that mostly works for me: Disable texture sharpening in the nVidia control panel).

I'm running on a 24" Monitor with 1920x1200 Resolution on a Nvidia Gt 8800.

And all is fine and there is enough place to open some windows, build, look at notecards, sort inventory in 3 windows and still play Greedy in between.

Only taking high res pictures is now space consuming ....

Wol,
SL Guided Tours

I use a 22" widescreen monitor running at 1920 x 1080 for primary display and a 17" standard aspect as a second monitor.

Gomez

I use dual monitors, a 22" wide screen and a 21" wide screen, both set to 1680x1050.

I hate to brag, but mine is big, (24 inches) and performs very well..

I would run your monitor at its natural resolution. That is what I run mine at (1920x1200) with a GTX 280. I run sl in a maximized window. No problems with text at all..

.d

15.4" widescreen laptop - 1280x800 desktop resolution, SL running in a window so its a tad bit smaller.

22" widescreen iiyama on my desktop, 1680x1050 resolution, SL "restrictions" see above.

I have one that is 12 inches . . .

Pep ( . . . but I don't use it as a rule. )

You need to update your joke book - or avoid making jokes altogether

17" wide screen laptop - 1920 x 1200 pixels.

I work on the same basis as fashion - the old stuff cycles around and those that aren't old enough to remember it from the previous time think it is original and interesting . . .

Pep (whereas old farts who remember it from the time before the time before are less impressed. )

I use a Dell 20" Monitor
Aspect Ration = 8:5
Display Resolution = 1680X1050
Quality = High

Pretty much exactly what I'm running too.......but to be honest I have no idea what the current resolution is.......SL never changes tho.....my SL always looks fine (run in a window)...nothing gets distorted or stretched. So....not entirely why that is, I have no problems with SL on the big honkin moniter.

I just go for the native pixels and leave it there. The resampling fuzzies drive me nuts otherwise.

Hey thanks for the replies. That gives me a good idea of where it should be set at.
Seems quite a few are running at max native resolution, which makes sense. For mine it seems the best would be between 1440 wide and like 1550 somewhere, but there isnt jack for supported resolutions in that range. And of course, if I specify a custom one and theres not a supported base resolution in that range, it makes my whole desktop scrollable instead of fitting it. I swear the guy who made that scrolling function available when i DON'T have dual monitors selected earns a bullet... that's just dumb.


Lols
Oh the text in SL is just fine, even on the 1.23 viewer. It's the desktop, internet, etc.. text that's fubar at those "off" resolutions. Sorry, guess I should have been a little clearer.


I'm not asking what YOU did for santa to get a 24 incher out of it
hehe.. and yes I would run it at that, which is 1680 x 1050 I believe, but the monitor has to be at the back of my corner computer desk, so most of the small stuff is really, really small from that far away. Add that there's a full length window literally 1 foot to the left of my monitor and that becomes some serious squint material in the afternoons. Still, I may end up going with that anyway because others here are, and the boost in clarity from running at native resolution might make it tolerable. Not fond of being limited to 60Hz refresh though.
Thanks again

22" monitor, 1680x1050 resolution.

I run SL in a maximized window, 1680x1028.

I have a 22in LG flatscreen. I run SL at 1680x1050 which is the highest my video card goes, in fullscreen 16:9.

/me glances over her left shoulder and spies the 52" high def LCD TV sitting there. The one with the PC hookup on the back...

/me cracks an evil grin

Cute title...

My Win XP system has a 20 inch CRT display with 1600 x 1200 resolution, and my Mac system has a 24 inch LCD display with 1920 x 1200 resolution. On both systems, I virtually never run full-screen for SL. I always fine-tune my monitor settings so something that is supposed to be square actually is square on-screen, so I never use "streached" pixel resolutions that distort the image.

My preference is a 900 x 900 square window most of the time, or a 600 x 600 square window if I am running multiple instances of SL for roleplaying. This alows me to take square snapshots in-world that are not distorted.

If I am making an image for a profile pic, or some other in-world image that isn't square format, I may streach the window to roughly match the desired aspect ratio, or I may save to disk and crop to the desired aspect ratio as part of editing the image.

I'll streach the window to rectangular and about 80% of my screen area if I am doing complex building and scripting work.

And for some projects, especially heavy scripting... I'll pivot my Mac's flatscreeen monitor to portrait mode, 1200 x 1920, and go almost full screen, so I can have script windows in the upper and lower quarters of the screen, while leaving the center half open to see what I am working on.

Why virtually never full screen? I multi-task, a lot. I need access to my other applications, so I can bring up Photoshop on part of the screen to make a custom texture, for example. And on my XP system, another limitation is that it's performance is too low if I run SL in a large window or full screen.

I use an old Samsung 213T at its native resolution of 1600x1200 with SL in a window and the UI scale at 0.825. That works great for me. (^_^)

I've run my 50" TV on SL at 1280x720 for holidays. But, keyboarding from the couch is discomforting at best. (^_^)y

25" running native 1920 x 1080. But I'm jealous of your GPU.

Is your display set for your native resolution? If not, and if you can't actually chose the proper resolution in Windows, go to the monitor makers web site and download the drivers for your monitor. Seems trivial or even silly I know, but when Windows can choose the correct monitor, all issues with timing and resolution become a memory.

Once you've got your screen resolution set, open up SL and on the graphics tab, UNCHECK the "run SL in a window" box, and check the auto detect ratio box. You'll no longer have aspect ratio issues.

For best legibility, you should choose your native resolution, then use the ui size slider on the general tab. Then if you prefer to run in a window, you can check that option again.

24" wide screen @ 1920x1200 for primary
19" VGA on the side.

I run SL windowed and maxed and usually have web and email open on the secondary.

On the computer settings: set the screen resolution the same as the LCD display resolution, always.

On the SL settings: set the scale 1:1 and turn off the automatic rescaling in your user interface preferences. That feature has never worked worth a damn.

darn.

24 inches of steaming hot iMac love!

Yeah baybee.