Help Please, I'm going blind at 1024x768

[Will]

Xp Home, my display is a Nec Multisync Lcd 1530V, which
wants 1024x768 resolution, made evident with annoying pop-
ups that occur no matter what the Operating system.
When I try to run at the recommended resolution, using
acccessibility display settings, extra large fonts,icons,
there is really nothing that makes viewing comfortable,
the Display Properties panel, to begin with only occupies
1/5th of the screen. There is an un-certified driver for
the display from Nec and its .icm file causes an error in
any attempt to set it as default, so I leave the monitor
define at Xp default of plug and play with no color
profile.
My 59 year old eyes were never good to begin with and I'm
wondering if the only solution here if I'm to stay with
Microsoft is to buy a whacking great screen?

Thanks in advance from anyone who has been here.

 

[CriticalMass]

Xp Home, my display is a Nec Multisync Lcd 1530V, which
wants 1024x768 resolution,...........My 59 year old eyes were never good to
begin with and I'm
wondering if the only solution here if I'm to stay with
Microsoft is to buy a whacking great screen?

Solution to *what*, exactly? You never said what you're trying to do. Do
you want higher resolution, or lower?

I spent a while searching the web for a NEC 1530V LCD monitor to get the
specs, and was unable to even find that model listed, for what it's worth.

 

[Guest]

1024x768 is the recommended resolution for that display, which means that is
the actual physical resolution. It will support lower resolutions, but they
will either be less "sharp", or display a smaller image.

One of the things about an LCD display is that they only have a single
resolution, which is fixed by the number of pixel elements built into the
screen. If you try to change the displayed resolution, you will get one of
the following affects:
-only using part of the screen (lower than physical resolution)
-scrolling/panning, where you see only part of a larger "virtual" screen
(higher than physical resolution)
-stretching/squeezing of image (resizing to match different than physical
resolution) this usually doesn't look as clear as setting the same as
physical resolution, since it either has to remove pixels, or interpolate
and insert pixels.

LCD screens often do not appear to display text as sharply as an CRT display,
even at the same resolution (physical reasons, again). Turning on Cleartype
text font smoothing may help.

Your solution to get the display big enough for you to see with "old" eyes
may be to either get a larger LCD monitor (with the same, or lower, number of
pixels), or get a good quality CRT monitor that allows you to change the
actual resolution (by changing the frequencies of the signals). You should
get a good enough one that you can set the refresh rate high enough to
minimize flicker - it will probably still be cheaper than an LCD anyway, and
you can probably find someone else that would trade or buy your LCD screen,
since they are getting more popular (for some reason).

|Xp Home, my display is a Nec Multisync Lcd 1530V, which
|wants 1024x768 resolution, made evident with annoying pop-
|ups that occur no matter what the Operating system.
|When I try to run at the recommended resolution, using
|acccessibility display settings, extra large fonts,icons,
|there is really nothing that makes viewing comfortable,
|the Display Properties panel, to begin with only occupies
|1/5th of the screen. There is an un-certified driver for
|the display from Nec and its .icm file causes an error in
|any attempt to set it as default, so I leave the monitor
|define at Xp default of plug and play with no color
|profile.
|My 59 year old eyes were never good to begin with and I'm
|wondering if the only solution here if I'm to stay with
|Microsoft is to buy a whacking great screen?
|
|Thanks in advance from anyone who has been here.

 

[Edward]

You can adjust the dpi here to vary the size of your dispaly at any resolution....

Right click Desktop. Select Properties/Settings/Advanced. On the General tab make your adjustment under DPI setting.

Best wishes,

Ed



Xp Home, my display is a Nec Multisync Lcd 1530V, which
wants 1024x768 resolution,...........My 59 year old eyes were never good to begin with and I'm
wondering if the only solution here if I'm to stay with
Microsoft is to buy a whacking great screen?

Solution to *what*, exactly? You never said what you're trying to do. Do you want higher resolution, or lower?

I spent a while searching the web for a NEC 1530V LCD monitor to get the specs, and was unable to even find that model listed, for what it's worth.

 

[Edward]

My monitor is a 15" Philips 'Brilliance' 150P and I'm 67!!

Resolution is set at 1024x768 but I have the dpi at a Custom 110%.
Everything is quite readable...

Ed

 

[CWatters]

Solution to *what*, exactly? You never said what you're trying to do. Do

you want higher resolution, or lower?

Neither - He wants larger fonts really.

I spent a while searching the web for a NEC 1530V LCD monitor to get the

specs, and was unable to even find that model listed, for what it's worth.

Try a search for "1530V" = lots of hits.

 

[CWatters]

Try setting lower resolution. Right click on the desktop and select settings
tab. On the left you should see a slider with "more" at one end and "less"
at the other. Move it one click towards "less", click OK and follow any
instructions it gives you.

The result should be larger text but the result might appear slightly out of
focus. If you don't like the results you can put it back by repeating the
above and moving the slider to "More".

 

[Dwight Stewart]

My 59 year old eyes were never good to
begin with and I'm wondering if the only
solution here if I'm to stay with Microsoft
is to buy a whacking great screen?

Thanks in advance from anyone who has
been here.

I'm there now, Will. I have two Macintosh G3 laptops and a Windows
desktop. The Mac laptops are able to switch to various resolutions using
software tricks (adding and reducing pixels used for each dot), but are hard
to see clearly without reading classes even at 800x600 dpi (especially when
doing fine detailed work - graphics, for example). In addition, some web
pages and some software are beginning to expect that 1024x768 resolution as
a minimum today.

The Windows desktop, with it's 17" LCD display and 1024x768 dpi
resolution, is a little better, but I still need reading glasses for the
fine detailed work. However, it's good enough to cause me to now consider a
second, similar, monitor to use with the laptops while at home.

In the end, your only options may be to get a really large monitor or some
really good reading glasses (or both depending on how bad your eyesight is).
LCD monitors, because the screen image goes from edge to edge, have the
advantage of offering a screen image about equal in size to the next size up
CRT monitor (for example, the image on a 17" LCD is about the same size as
the image on a 19" normal monitor). Keep that in mind when shopping for a
monitor (images on your 14" LCD laptop screen are already about equal in
size to that on a 15" screen on a normal monitor, so you'll have to go even
larger than that with a normal CRT display).

Good luck with your quest.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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