Basically the bigger and higher max resolution your monitor is, used along with a super low resolution in game would make distant planes alot easier to spot. Just as cheesehawk has said. Instead of using one pixel for a distant object at max resolution it would use multiple at a lower res, thus making it easier to see...
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