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Merystic · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 6:07 pm

This is just ranting...
I'm kind of upset right now...just got this new online game, I've played it a few times before and it's really cool, but now I actually have it. Anyway, I installed the thing, but lo and behold, I can't play it. Why? Because I have to have 1024x768 monitor resolution. Guess what I rediscover, my old crappy prehistoric monitor does not support higher than 800x600! I can't reconfigure the game because the latter is the lowest resolution it offers. I can't buy a new monitor because I'm dirt poor.
On my old monitor, I had it on 1024x768 all the time, but then it exploded and I got this crappy hand me down monitor from caveman days...
I guess I'm just mad because this particular minimum requirement was not mentioned on the box, or maybe because monitors are so freaking expensive (relative to how much money I have right now). Sure, that resolution is fairly common.......but so is 800x600. I think in all fairness this requirement should have been made clear.
Because what about those of us with crappy monitors and no income? We're S.O.L, that's what!

*sighs and starts rolling pennies*
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Impaler · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 8:39 pm

Monitors are dirt cheap, especially if you aren't looking for flat screen or lcd.

You can get a .22 pitch 17" for like, 120 bucks.
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Giant Hamster · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 1782

$120 is about 6 fast food runs.

Less fast food = new monitor. w0ot.

Yuri · member Member # Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 73

www.pricewatch.com

For about over US$150, you can get a decent monitor from some reliable brands like Philips, Samsung, etc. , even if you decide to buy it from some hardware store.

Anyway, most people usually spend a gazillion of cash on useless stuff which they don't even need, that's why they're usually broke. Unless you're really poor or something. Razz

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faustgfx · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 2:15 am

keeping the people with dark ages wood-and-iron style computers in mind does not get you money OR saintly halo points.
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Shadow-X- · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:56 pm

i feel so guilty reading this post knowing that i paid $45 CDN for my 99' model 19", it's not like monitors can be hard-driven like video cards or CD-ROM drives, so I was pretty sure of the quality when I swiped it off my friend when he bought his 21" Sun Microsystems monitor (the one I bought is a KDS Visual sensations btw).

sorry if this makes someone irate. But I feel for ya, I was h4x0ring away on my 15' monitor with a max rez of 1152x864 on drivers that werent even for the monitor, and max rez of 1024x768 with manufacturer drivers, it made me insane)
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