crysis on 37" lcd tv

yesterday a friend asked me to connect my laptop to my tv and show him crysis
(i only got the demo).
i did that and the result was surprisingly good. i turned the settings to:

all high, no aa, 1366x768 (tv's native res). the video card @ 600/900.

the game ran really smoothly (no stuttering/slowdown) through the whole demo.
and it looked MUCH better than on my laptop screen @ 1440x900.
it looked like with aa applied and the overall picture quality and colour was much
smoother. i guess the lcd makes the picture a little bit blurry & has better colours
than a laptop screen, which makes a more realistic look overall.
in crysis on the laptop screen (native res) the picture looks too sharp making it less
realistic and when i leave the native resolution it just gets ugly.

a big surprise for me was also the great performance. unfortunately i have no chance
to try dx10 (very high), as i don't run vsta. but i heard the to-be-released-soon
crysis: warhead will allow you very high settings, even if running xp.

make fotos of the tv? you won't be even able to tell the differene between low and
high on them. not even high res screenshots are capable to show how the game
looks when played.
as for the thread being useless: people with a similar system can give it a try, too.
just a recommendation. and people who plan to buy a new pc can see, what the
laptop is capable of.

don't have a bad lcd, i use a samsung lcd. imo they are between the best lcd screens
(together with sony bravia, sharp & pioneer kuro).
the blurryness is ugly when watching my pc's desktop but makes games look smoother imo. the tv supports a "pc gaming mode" which is on. this is also responsible for the effect i mentioned.
one thing lowering the quality a little (but imo not THAT much) is that i use a vga cable
instead of a hdmi, as my laptop has no hdmi out and using the dvi-hdmi adapter
didn't work that well for me.

lcd tvs DO differ from a laptop screen, as they serve a different purpose. i.e. the backlight is much stronger in a lcd tv (look how thick it is compared to a thin laptop screeen) and provide much stronger colours. lcd tvs are also built to let low res material look better (99% of the dvd/tv material here is 720x576).
they still look fine when used at lower resolutions, more than pc screens.
and they handle deinterlacing much better & automatically making the pal format
appear better than on a laptop screen.

of course 1920x1080 offers better quality (when you have a hih quality lcd;
using a 1366 sony bravia or pioneer kuro will still give you nicer pictures than a 500$ 1920 one).
but in my case the 1366 is just right, as playing crysis at 1920x1080 would offer me
much worse performance on max settings.

does your samsung have "pc gaming mode" enabled?

it's not exactly blurryness, i just can't find a better word.
and i mean it in a positive way, meaning crysis looks better
on the lcd than on my latop screen.

usually i use my 37" to play ps3 games which is great. but as for pc gaming
(i play cod4 multiplayer mostly) playing on my laptop screen feels better.
mouse & keyboard in the living room are just not that convenient.
end a fast paced ego shooter on a giant screen is less practical imo.

agree, racing games or other ones you can use a controller (i.e. a xbox 360 one) are nicer on the huge screen. i also played assassin's creed and tomb raider legend using the tv display.

55"? that's huge!!!
should work fine with your notebook for all current games.
unfortunately no hdmi out in the m6300. i think dvi is lacking sound support,
so you need to use a audio cable...

i also tried some config from tweakguides.com once,
which was supposed to make the game look like "very high"
even if using xp.
what i noticed where some sunrays shining through the trees
but nothing else. actually the game seemed to look even worse
sometimes (sand floor getting blurry like with no af).
maybe you really need the dx10 engine to make it look any different..