Why do some people play at 1280x960 instead of a higher 4:3 resolution?

[Chikn]

A video popped up in my youtube recommendation about why alot of cs2/go players use 4:3 and they showed a clip of players responding to questions about their resolutions with "1280x960". So I decided to try it out and I can see the advantages, but then I swapped to 1920x1440 and the only difference from what I could tell is it's less pixelated, is it something to do with fps, monitors native resolution or just personal preference?

[ＥＶＯ ッ行ぇ]

it feels more comfortable

[Chikn]

Originally posted by 🎅:

There are two types of people playing in 4:3. Those who started playing cs 15-20 years ago and simply got used to playing in this ratio, since there were no monitors with a different ratio. And fools with small brain who blindly imitate them. There are no 4:3 advantages, only the habits of some players.

But why 1280x960 instead of something like 1920x1440?

[Outsider]

Originally posted by 🎅:

There are two types of people playing in 4:3. Those who started playing cs 15-20 years ago and simply got used to playing in this ratio, since there were no monitors with a different ratio. And fools with small brain who blindly imitate them. There are no 4:3 advantages, only the habits of some players.

There is. You can hold more tight angles.

[🎅]

Originally posted by Chikn:

Originally posted by 🎅:

There are two types of people playing in 4:3. Those who started playing cs 15-20 years ago and simply got used to playing in this ratio, since there were no monitors with a different ratio. And fools with small brain who blindly imitate them. There are no 4:3 advantages, only the habits of some players.

But why 1280x960 instead of something like 1920x1440?

Сause m0NESY plays 1280x960. That's it.

[dimoon]

it got advantages: 4:3 res makes models wider, and it would be easier to aim at them.

[USSR Prokkk]

Because certain type of players can not play on HD resolutions by nature, they need slightly blurry picture. I personally can not play HD cuz it own my eyes so badly, I always use 1600x900 or even 720.

[MAXE]

it depends on their screem size e.g. my resolution on my 27 inch screen is 1920x1440p wich would be the same as around 1024x768 on a 15-19 inch screen, the best would be if i could get 2560x1440p in 4:3 i would love that because that would be the native resolution for the screen and give me a better 1 to 1 pixel feeling !

lowering the resolution can be a cheat really .. because instead of the pixel just is 1 on the screen it will fill 4 pixels on the screen and be easyer to hit that is why so many pro´s still play with the lower resolutions like 1024x768 on a 24 inch screen ..

I practice in the higher resolutions and if i need to get into high competitive i will lower my resolutions = alot easyer to hit then

[Mortis 🥒]

Originally posted by M-A-X-E ™:

it depends on their screem size e.g. my resolution on my 27 inch screen is 1920x1440p wich would be the same as around 1024x768 on a 15-19 inch screen, the best would be if i could get 2560x1440p in 4:3 i would love that because that would be the native resolution for the screen and give me a better 1 to 1 pixel feeling !

lowering the resolution can be a cheat really .. because instead of the pixel just is 1 on the screen it will fill 4 pixels on the screen and be easyer to hit

I think you could try 1920x1440

[MAXE]

Originally posted by h@ruhi:

Originally posted by M-A-X-E ™:

it depends on their screem size e.g. my resolution on my 27 inch screen is 1920x1440p wich would be the same as around 1024x768 on a 15-19 inch screen, the best would be if i could get 2560x1440p in 4:3 i would love that because that would be the native resolution for the screen and give me a better 1 to 1 pixel feeling !

lowering the resolution can be a cheat really .. because instead of the pixel just is 1 on the screen it will fill 4 pixels on the screen and be easyer to hit

I think you could try 1920x1440

I play in 1920x1440 4:3 because it is as close to my native resolution on my screen ..

but i would love if Valve would try give us 2560x1440p in 4:3, because 1920x1440 is not native resolution for 27 inch screens !

1440p is also commonly used over 1080p in high level gaming, where image quality is almost as important as frames per second when you want to compete, that is why i picked 1920x1440p and teached myself to play at that resolution, i come from 1024x768 so i had to get use to it first ! 16/9 just look to wierd for me because the figures and scene is streched upwards and pressed together to something i dont like to play it is to wierd for me to play with a picture view like that.. that is is why 4:3 feels more natural to me and why many pro players play in that resolution !

If 16/9 would drop some heavy ontop of the picture so it would be like 4:3 then i would switch to 16/9 because it is native to my screen .. but untill that happen i stay in 4:3

[オプティマスプライム]

qq

[Mortis 🥒]

Originally posted by M-A-X-E ™:

Originally posted by h@ruhi:

I think you could try 1920x1440

I play in 1920x1440 4:3 because it is as close to my native resolution on my screen ..

but i would love if Valve would try give us 2560x1440p in 4:3 ?

I mean you can make your own custom resolution you don't really need to wait for valve so.

[MAXE]

Originally posted by h@ruhi:

Originally posted by M-A-X-E ™:

I play in 1920x1440 4:3 because it is as close to my native resolution on my screen ..

but i would love if Valve would try give us 2560x1440p in 4:3 ?

I mean you can make your own custom resolution you don't really need to wait for valve so.

oh ? not in 4:3 ?

1440p .. hmm i dont think you can .. it would be idk 2560x1920 then or some ?

[Mortis 🥒]

Originally posted by M-A-X-E ™:

Originally posted by h@ruhi:

I mean you can make your own custom resolution you don't really need to wait for valve so.

oh ? not in 4:3 ?

Yeah when I had an AMD card I could via it's control panel

I think the same goes for Nvidia too,just search custom resolutions Nvidia

Nvm it's not possible my bad lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/av8syt/2560x1440_43_stretched_possible/

For 1080p I found out there's an interesting resolution of 1728x1080 with 16:10 aspect ratio,might have to try that later

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/3ddxo3/43_stretched_or_native_1080p/