DirectX not working in widescreen

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Hi all. I jsut got a new widescreen monitor for Christmas, pluged it
into my laptop, and got it up and running. Looks beautiful at
1440x900, and I have it set up to be hte primary monitor with the
laptops internal monitor disabled.

So then I tried to start up World of Warcraft, and no matter what I did
it refused to enter a widescreen resolution. Following some clues
elsewhere, I rand dxdiag and discovered during the tests that DirectX
itself was forcing the monitor into a standard resolution (which is why
WoW wouldn't do it, since it relies on DirectX finding good
resolutions).

So what's going on here? How can I fix this? I'm using an old
GeForce4Go card with the latest drivers from nVidia (minorly tweaked to
install properly on the laptop).

Thanks.
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

You need a VIDEO CARD that supports Wide Screen resolutions,
along with the correct video card drivers. An old GeForce4Go video
card will not support wide screen resolutions.


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/


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:

| Hi all. I jsut got a new widescreen monitor for Christmas, pluged it
| into my laptop, and got it up and running. Looks beautiful at
| 1440x900, and I have it set up to be hte primary monitor with the
| laptops internal monitor disabled.
|
| So then I tried to start up World of Warcraft, and no matter what I did
| it refused to enter a widescreen resolution. Following some clues
| elsewhere, I rand dxdiag and discovered during the tests that DirectX
| itself was forcing the monitor into a standard resolution (which is why
| WoW wouldn't do it, since it relies on DirectX finding good
| resolutions).
|
| So what's going on here? How can I fix this? I'm using an old
| GeForce4Go card with the latest drivers from nVidia (minorly tweaked to
| install properly on the laptop).
|
| Thanks.
 

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