- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Lol. Yeah, basically the resolution is the pixel count. The higher the pixel count, the more demanding it is on your system, but it also produces a much better picture. 800x600 means 480,000 pixels total (800 vertical, 600 horizontal). Max resolution on my monitor is 1600x1200 is 1,920,000 pixels (holy craps!)
Newer graphics cards have the ability to go to that max resolution without lag, but those such as the 9600XT, a great bargain card, can only go to about 1280x960, and at that they lag a bit.
Resolution isn't that important. 800x600 is great, as that is the resolution on the xbox version of Halo. The things that really make the game are the specular, textures, etc. If you can enable those, tweak resolutions until you get very little lag. It's more rewarding to have a low resolution and awesome effects than a high resolution and really bad textures/no specular lighting effects,