Video Card, need help.

[Softtissue]

Ok, I need some help here. I have trouble running FEAR so I have decided to go with an Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT. Dont know which brand yet, but here is the issue I have. Earlier I installed my brothers Geforce 6600 GT to make sure my FEAR demo wasnt bad, it wasnt it ran fine. But I noticed on my desktop when i went to properties, then settings I could only go up to 1024 by 768. Now when my brother has it in his computer, his runs up to 1600 by whatever. Now can someone please tell me why his comp can run it on higher, on the SAME CARD. And btw, we both have 1 gig of ram, i have 2.8 ghz he has 3.0, we both have 160 gb hardrive, both raid. Please tell me whats up.

 

[Counter-Strike]

Your monitor probably cannot support that high of a resolution...

 

[Softtissue]

Yap, Ive decided that is the issue of all this, now can any of you tell me, how do you measure monitor size? From top to bottom, left to right, or corner to corner?

 

[nigy]

moniter size in inches in corner to other corner.

 

[Counter-Strike]

It does it by pixel count...notice 800x600 = 800 wide, 600 high

Monitor size doesn't make a difference, it has to do with base resolution and what the video card can/can't support.