I've been playing on 24" 1080p since forever. I usually played at the next step down from native resolution, not 19xx by 1080, but slightly lower. I've been looking at Aces High on similar sized screens since it was created - the old Optiquest and Viewsonic 21" CRT monitors that were 1000$ back in the late 90's early 2000s were always found on my desk.
Well, I just spent 1000$ on another new monitor, and it's slightly larger at 27" and 1440p. I've been playing mostly at native resolution with the new Gsync on.
My problem is - good holy god are the targets small. The game looks fantastic in 1440p with sweetfx using AkAK settings, it truly does, but my only problem is hitting stuff now. Got into some fights yesterday, got behind my first attacker, and I'm looking at him thinking, wow, something is sure different, he's pretty far away compared to when I usually come over the top. Then I look at the range marker. 400 yards?!?!? What the he double hockey sticks? He looked 800 or further away compared to what I'm used to.
Who else has experienced this, and is there anyway to get used to it or change it in some way? Is it just a matter of getting used to it? I remember back in the day guys like Drex and others who were the top duel pilots would reduce their resolution to 800x600 to make the targets larger and easier to see/hit, but that was in early days of 3d video cards and 17 or 19" crts that most people had. Now a step from native 1080p 24" to native 1440p 27" seems like it's made everything twice as small. It sure looks good though, in the 262 cockpit with everything in the nvidia control panel cranked in terms of AA and all that - suffice it to say it's pretty impressive coming from 1080p. The new version I'm sure is going to look crazy good. I'm just worried about accuracy, my one saving grace is I've always had a decent shot and snapshot, but that's gone right out the window now.
I have a 4k monitor on the way now, and this has me wondering at how useful it will be with AH. Has anyone else used a 28" ish sized 4k monitor with AH? I had ordered by the Rog Swift and the Acer Gsync 4k, intending to keep whichever came first, but they both shipped the same day, so when the 4k gets here, I'm going to take a look at it. I know a lot of guys here game on larger TV sets at 60/120hz like Fugitive and others - do you have the same small target issue with the larger screen compared to typical 24" 1080p screens?
