VGA vs DVI

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This saturday, i change my 2 old monitors (17" 15") they where running on a VGA convertor since my geforce 7800gs+ agp only had DVI outputs.

So i got a 22" widescreen with DVI, and now comes to something i really dont understand. Is that every game is running more smoothly on 1680x1050 then they did on my old screen one on 1280x1024. Some games even have more FPS

I thought that there would be alot of slowdown, when using an higher resolution, but has it something to do with the VGA vs DVI? since i read about that the gfx card has to convert the signal from dvi to vga. And now that it dosent have to, it increases my gfx card?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
magic... duh...
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
No, the force
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
it's called lights working togethere, they just needed to find the right lamp  
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Its more likely that your new monitor supports a higher refresh rate than your old one(s). Digital to analogue convertors could be a limiting factor in high resolutions but its unlikely for normal resolutions as they go plenty fast enough.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Its more likely that your new monitor supports a higher refresh rate than your old one(s). Digital to analogue convertors could be a limiting factor in high resolutions but its unlikely for normal resolutions as they go plenty fast enough.


its that above quote + magic + the force...

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Exactly   
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Magic? yeah that might explain the problem..
And to add a bit more, to your theory. My PC has a problem with running programs/games.
Where it will run ekstreamly slow. But if i restart the program/game it will run normaly. It can take a few trys...

Take the CPU test in 3dmark06. When its running slow i get a CPU score of about 400. But if its running crasy good ill get a score of almost a 1000... But the avg score is about 800-900.

I tryed: not to OC, under clock, drivers, virus scans, spyware scans, formating and reinstalling winxp, nothing seem to stop this random slowdown.

cursed?

Or is there a real explanation to it?

Its not that big of a problem when playing SP games. As i can just restart it.
But if i play MP game, and this random slowdown accours, its a pain in the ... for my fellow players.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
weird... did you try to stop most of the background processes? they suck up some resources, example, right now I have 51 processes running, when I play a game I make sure shut some of the unnecessary ones off, and usually have around 31 running when I play a game.

I once had another problem where my system would think a game when running was a virus, and start to scan the system and disinfect it, and I only found out after the game crashed a few times and the AV program was running. That was the first and only year I ever used Norton...
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
atm i got 40 processes running. For the most of the time i dont shotdown any processes, i can go as low to about 20-25 i think. And im using norton, hmm if not norton then what? since i have used that for years now, never seen any problems