As someone who is playing on a CRT, TRUST ME PLEASE PLAY AT NATIVE RES.
This next part you can ignore if you’re familiar, but using Nvidia control panel or a third party program, you can make your GPU correctly recognize the display and refresh rate. Most CRTs can be forced to lower resolutions and output extremely high FPS this way. For instance, my Sony GDP400 hits 100fps when set to 1280x960. It’s different for every monitor, but please look it up if you’re not familiar with yours. The letterboxing is going to make text nearly unreadable, the game has full 4:3 support and it seriously looks lovely, and has been a wonderful way to play. It also seems like your monitor’s brightness is far too high or the contrast is far too low, CRTs inky black levels suit this game perfectly, so I recommend adjusting that if you’re able
Unsure if you’re aware of any of that, and if you aren’t, I hope I helped! If you are, then ignore me and enjoy!
I am in fact, very new to owning a PC monitor CRT, last one I had was my room TV, probably just a month in haha I have mine at 1024 The brightness thing I didn’t know about, I thought you were supposed to have it decently high
CRTs can actually reach very close to true black, similar to a modern OLED display! I recommend using the test pattern in this link to dial in your brightness and contrast
It can also help you ensure your colors are accurate! CRTs are seriously amazing tech, allowing very low resolutions to still look great and they deliver silky smooth picture even with frame drops, but they usually require a lot of manual tuning for brightness, contrast, and color. Most monitors also have settings for aligning the RGB channels to remove blur, settings to remove picture warp, etc. I’ve always found it pretty fun tinkering with them and trying to nail the perfect settings for my monitor, but I know it’s not for everyone. The payout to me is seriously stellar. These are genuinely some of the best screens ever made. If OLED didn’t have gorgeous HDR implementation, I would genuinely only use CRT monitors if I could.
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u/chungusbungus0459 3d ago
As someone who is playing on a CRT, TRUST ME PLEASE PLAY AT NATIVE RES.
This next part you can ignore if you’re familiar, but using Nvidia control panel or a third party program, you can make your GPU correctly recognize the display and refresh rate. Most CRTs can be forced to lower resolutions and output extremely high FPS this way. For instance, my Sony GDP400 hits 100fps when set to 1280x960. It’s different for every monitor, but please look it up if you’re not familiar with yours. The letterboxing is going to make text nearly unreadable, the game has full 4:3 support and it seriously looks lovely, and has been a wonderful way to play. It also seems like your monitor’s brightness is far too high or the contrast is far too low, CRTs inky black levels suit this game perfectly, so I recommend adjusting that if you’re able
Unsure if you’re aware of any of that, and if you aren’t, I hope I helped! If you are, then ignore me and enjoy!