Would a old computer with only 24 bit onboard videocard make picture quality on new 19" moniter look bad?

Question

My old monitor did not have that bad of quality but it was only a 15" oldstyle television looking thing that you see in an old office.I upgraded to a flat panel 19" LCD Hanns-G but it seems my picture quality is worse.Nothin looks as smooth especially text.It all looks alittle more "Blocky".Do flat panels just have worse quality than non flat panels?Is it maybe the size increase?Or maybe just the old 24 bit video card.I cant even set my quality to over 24 bit in Display Properties. Thanks

Answer 1

The problem is that you are not running the monitor at its native resolution, which at 19" should be 1280x1024.

Older video adapters only allow certain resolutions, which the one you are speaking of probably has a max resolution of 1024x768.

Go into your display properties and see if you can set the monitor at 1280x1024, if you can it will look much better.

If not, you might want to look into spending a little bit of money on a newer video adapter.

Answer 2

It has reached it's max resolution. As such, it has to expand the pixels to reach the screen size.

24 bit? You know how old your system has to be to still be running a VESA (24bit = VLB) video card???

Grab 5 bucks and buy something from this century at a flea market.