640x480 Support?

Hey,

I'm thinking... should I add some 640x480 support? because well, ah...somehow I think it's really, REALLY old for someone to use 640x480, unless he's/she's using Pentium 4

But it's pretty popular in the games to add 640x480 support.
Should I?

no, popular is 800x600
at least for new games

What sort of game? Shooter or strategy?

I often play strategy-type games in a window, while doing other stuff.
It in a window so it stays running, while you are busy elsewhere,
but you can see its status in a glance...

640x480 is a good size for a window, in this day and age.

Ummm, no, fullscreen.
The game is an adventures game.

Full-screen? OK, 800*600 IMHO.

640x480 in fullscreen looks too chunky on modern monitors...

I would go for 800x600.

The smallest resolution used nowerdays for Windows PCs is
800x600 (especially 1024x600 on Netbooks for example)

People using older computers than that will not game anyway.

Nevertheless its smart to always place your GUI Panles according
to the screens corners (and not fixed positions) anyways,
to account for different widescreen formats.

The 3D World is rendered correctly anyways.

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A small 640x480 (or smaller) screen makes sense if you want to make
a desktop-window-mode game like a casual Mine-sweeper or card game.

I've just discovered that I can't set the resolution of my monitors to lower than 800x600. So I guess 640x480 support has been dropped by many monitors. That's one reason more not to support it in your game.

Hmmm, okay. So no 640x480 support.

Thanks everyone!