playing older 2D games on a 19" LCD

I have a collection of late 90s -early 00s computer games, which typically
run in 800x600 resolution mode. Last night I fired one up, runnging it
on botha Dell 1905FP LCD (which has a much higher native resolution), and
a Hitachi 19" CRT (think it's a CF721). I set the resolution of both to
800x600.


Much to my surprise, the non- or slow-moving images of the game
(Amerizone) looked great on both monitors, including the LCD; I had
thought they would look lousy on the CRT.

When a motion scene was on, both screens showed substantial pizilation of
the background. For example. there's a scene early on with a man
bicycling. The surrounding field, ands then a later background of a
castle, got broken up into largish squares. The effect was much worse on
the LCD, but noticeable on both.


Is this a function of the video card (it's a Geforce FX5200, on a Dell
machine with a 2.8Ghz pentium processor)? If I upgrade the card, (a)
would it make a difference, and (b) what would people recommend?


I don't do 3D gaming, and the main function of the computer is for text.

A final question: why did the image look so good in a non-native
resolution on the LCD?

Thanks,

Andy Barss

Andrew Barss <barss.TakeThisOut@basil.u.arizona.edu> wrote:

: Much to my surprise, the non- or slow-moving images of the game
: (Amerizone) looked great on both monitors, including the LCD; I had
: thought they would look lousy on the CRT.
^^^^^^^


I meant: lousy on the LCD.