They are only 1068 by 1024 just half sized at the moment till my bigger monitor gets fixed
Im not using HD though.
Im glad your gonna get some more time online. We've been missing you.
I'm missing you too, friend. I'll be back soon!
And the screens still looks great at that resolution! I play at 1360x768 on a 32" HD Ready (720p) TV, which isn't ideal.
My wife just won't let me connect to the Full HD TV downstairs... yet.
Oh and I've seen this confusion before on the Rise of Flight forums,
Full HD isn't the same as
HDR.
Full HD stands for
Full High Definition, also called 1080p, which is simply a resolution: 1920x1080 (or 1920x1200 in some cases), the standardised resolution for the best digital signal that can travel over HDMI cables at the moment.
Lower standards exist as well, such as HD Ready (720p) and Standard Definition (480p), as well as a few interlaced resolutions (1080i etc).
Now
HDR is a completely different beast altogether.
This stands for
High Dynamic Range. It's a pixel shader that strives to simulate the human eye's dynamic perception of colour and light. In plain terms: it's something your video card does with the image before sending it to your screen. Actually, it makes it look
imperfect.
A standard image can't quite capture the full spectrum of colours that the human eye can perceive, especially the way we perceive bright blinding sunlight when coming out of a dark room, which can make white appear whiter than white. I hope I'm making sense here.
Now, a video card's representation of reality is perfect by definition, it doesn't need to get used to dynamic changes in environmental lighting and such. This is what HDR simulates.
Now, sadly, the effect is badly overused in Rise of Flight and not realistic at all. Proper use of HDR should always be very, very subtle. Too bad neoqb just wanted to hit us over the head with it as hard as it could to show off that its engine can handle HDR. Big deal.
To put things into perspective: 10 years ago we had the overused lens flare effect, 5 years ago the overused bloom effect and today we have HDR.
All I can say is: who knows what will happen in 5 years time?
Im not using HD though.