Gaming on an Apple flatpanel monitor

[Perseus]

OK, first off I am thrilled of the news about Battlefield 1942!!! I had heard something about monitor resolutions in relation to flatpanel monitors. The older monitors can change resolution but apparently the flatpanel monitors have a fixed resolution which could desrupt gaming experience (maybe even making it more choppy) Is this true to any extent?

 

[Pengu]

LCD monitors have a native resolution. They can display other resolutions, but they generally look best at their native resolution.

 

[adambyte]

Yeah. Granted, they'll look blurry at anything lower than their native resolution, but if you set the resolution lower, you'll get much higher frame-rates. Also, the blurriness doesn't really matter when playing a game, just when reading text on screen. So, when I'm doing day-to-day text-based IMing and stuff, I keep it on the high, native resolution, but when I'm playing Halo, I have it set to 640x480, and it looks just jim dandy.