i usually play on my sofa with laptop connected to 1080p projector via HDMI cable, using bluetooth NumPad and wireless mouse for the controls.

This with one or two upgrades

currently playing on laptop, but in November I'm planning to put together my own gaming PC
I have question regarding GPU
Any good Nvidia videocard people here can suggest?
I'm curently planning to get Asus ENGTX560 TI DCII, but maybe someone can offer something better (preferably from Asus)

Wow, that's a pretty nice setup you got their. The T.V picture looks great! :drool: Maybe I'll have to hook my laptop up to my T.V after all.

Thanks. Oh yeah, the picture is pretty nice. Not as nice as some smaller monitors I have used (specifically this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236079 one) But I like having the large screen.

Why have so few people voted for hooking it up to the TV with a controller? That's clearly the best way to game.

What's a controller? You mean the unwieldy, imprecise and button lacking thingy used by consolers, which is the official reason there is no dual wield blocking?
Uh, just thinking about it makes me cringe. Don't expect me to touch it ._.

Vizios are the [censored]. Cheap and look good. Whats that a 37, or 42?

A desktop which I proudly put together myself with parts I chose. But I'll be using the XBOX 360 wired controller and a ton of mods. Lore-friendly and thankfully no anime or immersion-breaking ones.

37" running at 1920x1080. Its about 2 years old now.

Agreed. There is a reason cross-platform FPS players can't play together; controller players would get slaughtered all day long by someone with a keyboard and mouse.

I'll be using a laptop until I can upgrade my desktop, probably try it on the TV for fun.

You are 100% wrong, on both counts.

But, as long as you had fun posting... that is the main thing!

A desktop but I'm considering hooking the case up to the TV and using keyboard & mouse if I can manage that. Too many cables around to manage the trouble though, my table is an external device hell.

ASUS G73jh

Look at a mirror.

Anyway, it's your problem and the problem of those who follows any of your "wise" advices, not mine.

My laptop can't run it

Desktop

i5 2500k 3.3GHz
4gb RAM
GTX 570
32" Samsung TV + 360 controller + Keyboard

I can't help but find playing a PC hooked into a TV to be pretty contradicting. Whats the point of playing PC if your TV is going to limit the resolutions? o.O

With the help of some forum members and a few co workers I have a computer that will be able to play Skyrim at the highest settings with kick ass frame rates. I have a quad core processor, radeon 6970 graphics card, 4 gigs of ram, 2 gigs of vram, a M4A88T-VEVO/USB3 motherboard, 800 watt power supply, and a coolermaster case with about a 20 inch flat screen moniter. Surround sound speakers too. Blows my old piece of crap computer out of the water. It's extremely satisfying to see all games out on the market right now have recommended graphics settings as ultra high and still have 100 fps.

Reason is what Elven said.



it does give you worse detail on a TV but it gives you the option to sit in a couch/chair/bed and play. Use to play Crysis on my 42' LCD I rarely do that anymore though because I rather have my 23' monitor.

But that's the good thing about PC you can do both, nothing limiting you at all from doing so with a decent rig.

PC with a 21.5" monitor at 1920x1080. B)

With a PC hooked up to a TV through HDMI or DVI, one can use their TV as a monitor and get actual 1920x1080 or whatever their TV's resolution is without scaling. The right television wold not limit the resolution and if one really likes to game from their couch with a controller, they can use their PC like an XBox on steroids.

My TV is 1920x1080 and only has a DVI connector. OS X, somehow, can fully utilize it to play HD film/games, but for some reason I've not gotten Windows and Sony to cooperate (interminable overscan issue). *f I can get my PC to plug into my TV and working properly, I'll definitely be using it to render Skyrim as it's resolution is higher than my monitor's.

Even if your TV is the same resolution your still loosing detail because your sitting +6ft away instead of 2ft is it still there? ya but are you seeing it nope

I would ask what's the point of playing on a small screen when the option for bigger is there? You get so much more detail and can see so much more with a larger screen and get to appreciate the game more.

The resolution on my TV is just as good as any small monitor 40% the size. I have a 21" monitor collecting dust because it is pointless to me. That's my opinion anyway but I suppose we all prefer different things.

I sit on the end of my bed playing so sit just as close as if I were at a desk, I also have the option to lay back on my bed a chill if I want to as well. TV wins everytime.

I'll be stuck with a laptop for a while yet. Hopefully it wont over-heat too often.