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I'd love to watch my favorite demos in full HD glory. Would it make sense to ask those nice folks at <insert demogroup-name here> to re-release their <insert name of kickass-prod here> with a 1920x1080 render-target - or may I or someone else be even succesful in patching it ourselves? To give an example: I'm currently watching conspiracy - the prophecy, and as the current max resolution (1280x960) runs perfectly fluent but is somewhat blocky/has black borders <insert first sentence of post>

Alternative: Anyone ever bothered to create a list of HD-Demos?

i would prefer 720p HD which is affordable for current CPUs, full HD isn't really :p

merkur: such resolutions would need bigger textures tooo?

bigger maps in general...

"Chaos Theory" exists in a special Siggraph HD video-edition, if you can get the CNS-guys to hand it over. :)

gloom: I'd be glad to give it to you. Now... do you want the 60 gig framedump or the 50k dumper? :D

I wonder if anyone would be interested in a version of our new demo (for assembly) that can dump png-compressed frames rendered at any given resolution / framerate...

576p is enough

demoscene makes it possible (cit.)

50k dumper! 50k dumper!

Really. Who has a 1920x1080 capable screen? :|

well, at least debris works fine (and looks great :) at 4k by 2k (be sure to use high or ultra textures though). some of the postproc rendertargets are a bit small for that resolution, so you get some upsampling artifacts there, but otherwise it seems to work fine. (oh, and it's fucking slow too :)

Hofn base resolution was/is 1920x1080 :P

And yeah, Debris looked really well :D
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ryg: 4k by 2k??? what kind of freakish display do you have? :D

@xernobyl: mine is 1920x1200, which is the standard for 24'', so I think there really are people out there watching demos in HDTV or higher. (f.e. debris and some other demos worked fine and it did look great with the monitor's native resolution)

@Zest: Current CPUs (I mean Intel Core2Duo, which I personally own and can tell about) can handle Full HD with no problem at all.

there were quite a lot of people with 24'' display on breakpoint btw. ...

parapete, that was an experiment by kb and it was purely offline rendering. but it DID look great :)

so then what is the resolution right above 1920x1200 and what sort of display would support it right now ?

if wasn't THAT offline, i could see it in 3200x1200 on my two monitors while it was rendering ;)

Those images are great tho. Now all we need is a cinema with a nice 4k projector and lots of weed ;)

Navis: 2560x1600 springs to mind which is the standard for 30 inch displays

Projectors for digital cinema can go up to 4096x2160 afair

On the other hand simply enumerating the available screen modes and assuming square pixels to determine the aspect ratio is probably the best way on PC nowadays (even if people with TV outs and 720x576 will cry.)

And if you do a resolution chooser, how about NOT bloating the list with all avaiable color depths and refresh rates but rather stick to sensible defaults :)

How about not changing the resolution at all? It's fucking annoying. ;)

@ID: ever heard of pixel shaders? well, take a complex one and you simply don't want to render at desktop resolution on every computer... most people I know have 1280x1024 and above, so take a not-very-high-end graphics card and you'll be at 0.xx fps in no time.