[RareB]

I am building my first htpc and wanted to know how games look on a big screen. I have been reading this forum the last few days and don't see many people talking about games much with there htpc. Currently I have a new 57" sony wide screen. In the past games looked really crappy on tvs but I hear they are much better on hd tvs. So far I have the 2.5 pet4, gig ram, myhd card, radeon 9700 pro, and a bunch of hard drives to record some hd tv. gamers, please let me know if you think playing games this type of tv will look great or should i stick to my computer monitor. I would also like some advice on a sound card, one for games and dvd playback.


Thanks


Rare

 

[dm]

how are you feeding your sony wide screen? Via SVIDEO or using the VGA out of your radeon?

 

[Namlemez]

Getting games to work with RPTVs can sometimes be a pain too, since you have to make them work inside a weird custom resolution.

 

[RareB]

I will be using vga out to the audio authority 9a60 to my tv. I have read in one post that a lot of games will not let you use custom resolutions. I thought that powerstrip was supposed to override these setting but am not sure. I am really just concerned with pq. I dont mind spending time to adjust and tweak the setting if I can make it look nice on my tv. I just remember seeing games before on tvs and you could hardly even read any text and it looked really crappy.


Rare

 

[dm]

Quote:

Originally posted by RareB I just remember seeing games before on tvs and you could hardly even read any text and it looked really crappy. Rare

likely those folks were feeding their TV's with SVIDEO and not the higher res that is available from HDTV or VGA signals.

 

[pmerritt]

I just play the games at 640X480 and put anti aliasing at it's best setting

this really looks good on my set.