Windows XP forum: RESOLUTION

The resolutions supported by the monitor are in the makers documentation that came with it. With a little bit of luck they are in the inf-file also, and Windows knows about them, and lets you only choose resolution and refresh rates that are supported.

The resolution you prefer to use depends on the monitor size, the quality of the monitor, your eyes and spectacles or lenses, the viewing distance and if Clearview is used. Nobody can determin that for you.

Kees

Here in the UK those who have eyesight difficulties, or who are concerned about using computer monitors because of their eyesight, visit their Optician for the proper eyesight tests, in particular testing for the medium distance of monitors.

I trust you are not asking us non-experts here to tell you which monitor distance from the eyes, which resolution and which monitor type is best for you.

We won't do that because we are not qualified and would not want that responsibility.

If you have concerns, you need professional advice from where you are.

The best I could do is tell you that the screen resolution I use is 1280 x 1024 on a 19 inch LCD monitor. I wear glasses for long distance.

I hope that helps.

Mark

monitors will support a maximum resolution of 1024x768 (XGA) and easily support 800x600 (SVGA) and have no problem with 640x480 (VGA) ( a very few support 1280x960 (XGA) )

As Kees indicated the monitor's specs will state the maximum resolution and if you do not still have the actual manuals surely you can look at the monitor's data plate for its make and model which make looking for the manual on the web pretty simple.

You mention "a general list created by experts" so I will assume you are capable of understanding the terminology so here goes:

As a general rule of thumb, a good monitor will have a
horizontal dot pitch (aperture grill models of CRT) of somewhere around 0.22 (or a diagonal dot
pitch (shadow mask CRT models) of 0.25-0.28). Using the square root of 2 (1.414) as our
factor, to achieve a specific sharp resolution, you must have a
monitor of a minimum size.



<b>
resolution


screen size</b>




640 x 480


7.9"x5.9" (9.9" diagonal)




800 x 600


9.8"x7.4" (12.3" diagonal)




832 x 624


10.3"x7.7" (12.9" diagonal)




1024 x 768


12.6"x9.5" (15.8" diagonal)




1152 x 870


14.2"x10.7 (17.8" diagonal)




1280 x 960


15.7"x11.8" (19.6" diagonal)



etc.

Keep in mind that this is viewable area, not the full size of
the picture tube, and that this assumes about 0.22 horizontal dot
pitch which is about 4.5 dots per millimeter or 115 dots per
inch. If your dot pitch is different (and depending on the age and manufacturer of your CRT monitor it very well could be .31mm, .28mm, .27mm, .26mm, and .25mm (or possible but unlikely to have a dot pitch of .51 mm or 1 mm usually relegated to televisions and very early monitors).

In essence, that means that without knowing YOUR MONITOR'S dot pitch no one can tell you the optimum screen size for the monitor that will have the clearest, sharpest image presentation.