VGA 360 problem

hello. i recently bought the 360 vga cable to use on my 17'' lcd monitor at 1280x1024 resolution. Whenever i play games (most noticable on halo3), the picture looks WORSE than on my sdtv. The edges are very very jagged (as if its set to LESS than 0x anti aliasing (i know its impossible)). Also the models just seem to look worse. It looks as if there armor details on spartans are not really 3d but just a single texture. Thats the best way i can explain it.

Is there any way to fix this??? What is causing these problems?

I can post a photo if needed.Also my cable is microsoft brand not 3rd party.VGA 360 problem
Btw i did set my settings to 1280x1024.VGA 360 problem
Whats your monitors native rez? And is it wide screen?
yes post pics ive never heard of that if anything it shouldnt look worse i dont have that problem and i use vga
I agree with you, i played my 360 on my 17'' LCD for a long time and Halo 3 looks absolutely disgusting. SD looked better because you still got the crisp textures but not the out of control jaggiesHalo 3 is a beauty that can only be truely appreciated in 16:9
so its only halo 3? i didnt really try other games other than some arcade games)

yes 1280 is my native res, and its 4:3, which is what my settings are set to.
[QUOTE=''Mikee3'']so its only halo 3? i didnt really try other games other than some arcade games)

yes 1280 is my native res, and its 4:3, which is what my settings are set to.[/QUOTE]Your monitor is the problem... The 360 is displaying a widescreen image to your monitor... But it is a funky rez so pixels get rearranged to fit on the screen... So in return it will look worse.
my sdtv is also 4:3 but theres no problems on it...
[QUOTE=''Mikee3''] my sdtv is also 4:3 but theres no problems on it...[/QUOTE]Thats because 360 can do a SD resolution. Some of the early games had some issues with it. But as far as I know... No games now have problems with SD.I have an LCD HDTV with a native res of 1366 x 768... Which is 16:9. My picture is crystal clear and looks better the HDMI running in 720P which is a few 100,000 pixels less.Since LCD is pixel based display... Anything that doesn't perfectly line up with the pixels will look like crap.
[QUOTE=''Truth_Hurts_U''][QUOTE=''Mikee3''] my sdtv is also 4:3 but theres no problems on it...[/QUOTE]Thats because 360 can do a SD resolution. Some of the early games had some issues with it. But as far as I know... No games now have problems with SD.I have an LCD HDTV with a native res of 1366 x 768... Which is 16:9. My picture is crystal clear and looks better the HDMI running in 720P which is a few 100,000 pixels less.Since LCD is pixel based display... Anything that doesn't perfectly line up with the pixels will look like crap.[/QUOTE]your post is full of lols. nice job.
[QUOTE=''zero9167'']your post is full of lols. nice job. [/QUOTE]OK.... YEah... Umm. :?
Hey TC if you want a good LCD for your 360 check out Newegg.You can get a 16-19 inch with 1,000 contrast, 8ms or less respones time and 1366x786-1440x900 resolution monitors for around $160-$180.They would work really nice with your 360.
[QUOTE=''Truth_Hurts_U''][QUOTE=''Mikee3'']so its only halo 3? i didnt really try other games other than some arcade games)

yes 1280 is my native res, and its 4:3, which is what my settings are set to.[/QUOTE]Your monitor is the problem... The 360 is displaying a widescreen image to your monitor... But it is a funky rez so pixels get rearranged to fit on the screen... So in return it will look worse.[/QUOTE]No it doesnt, most games force widescreen with letterbox, while a few play HD in true 4:3. This is the case with Halo 3, and a few others i can think of such as Far Cry Instincts and CoD 4

halo 3 looks great on my 19'' lcd at 1280x1024 res
[QUOTE=''Egghead360''][QUOTE=''Truth_Hurts_U''] [QUOTE=''Mikee3'']so its only halo 3? i didnt really try other games other than some arcade games)

yes 1280 is my native res, and its 4:3, which is what my settings are set to.[/QUOTE]Your monitor is the problem... The 360 is displaying a widescreen image to your monitor... But it is a funky rez so pixels get rearranged to fit on the screen... So in return it will look worse.[/QUOTE]No it doesnt, most games force widescreen with letterbox, while a few play HD in true 4:3. This is the case with Halo 3, and a few others i can think of such as Far Cry Instincts and CoD 4
[/QUOTE]The widescreen image is being stretched top and bottom to fit the screen. So you will notice distortions.[IMG]http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p7/morbidgamer/Res.jpg[/IMG]
I found halo 3 is a very jaggy game, I play on a 22in 16:9 Acer LCD monitor.
[QUOTE=''Truth_Hurts_U''][QUOTE=''Egghead360''][QUOTE=''Truth_Hurts_U''] [QUOTE=''Mikee3'']so its only halo 3? i didnt really try other games other than some arcade games)

yes 1280 is my native res, and its 4:3, which is what my settings are set to.[/QUOTE]Your monitor is the problem... The 360 is displaying a widescreen image to your monitor... But it is a funky rez so pixels get rearranged to fit on the screen... So in return it will look worse.[/QUOTE]No it doesnt, most games force widescreen with letterbox, while a few play HD in true 4:3. This is the case with Halo 3, and a few others i can think of such as Far Cry Instincts and CoD 4
[/QUOTE]The widescreen image is being stretched top and bottom to fit the screen. So you will notice distortions.[/QUOTE]No as ive said, ive played on a 17'' for months on end, i should know, almost all of the time you get letterboxing to mimic 16:9, but a few devs decide to use the whole screen and give you a HD 4:3 image. In games like CoD 4, FCI and Halo 3 that is what they do, all they are in essence doing is cutting of some of the image on the far right and left, nothing technical. If youre still not convinced, when you play such games theres no visible signs of the 'squashing' effect you get when an image is stretched vertically. Similarly, in Halo 3, in 16:9, you for example see more of the assault rifle, on a 4:3 17'' screen, you only see the amount of you would see playing on an SD 4:3 screen. And lastly, im a PAL user, so upscaling XBOX games isnt easy on a 4:3 screen as they arent 4:3 to begin with, hence most of the time you get the nasty squashing effect. Yes thats right, PAL image while only slightly different (576i instead of 480i) can still look THAT much distorted (squashed effect)
Also are you using the right settings?
Man I have the same problem...mine monitor is a 24'' ultrasharp widescreen dell.Jaggies everywhere...is Halo 3 the problem?
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