Screen settings

[Guest]

I have a 17" widescreen laptop and I am trying to change the screen
resoluton. It defaults to 1440 x 900 (1.6:1) which is the highest setting.
If I try to change to a lower setting, the view is stretched either
horizontally or vertically depending on the new screen resolution. The other
available settings are 1280 x 720 (1.78:1), 1152 x 864 (1.33:1) and 1024 x
768 (1.33:1) and 800 x 600 (1.33). Thus the aspect ratios are not the same
and the picture becomes distorted. Why are none of the avalable lower
settings at the same ratio as the 1440 x 900 (1.6:1)?

Reposted since I did not have the e-mail notofication turned on before.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Spirit]

Check your maker's site for a new video driver and/or video tool.
My Toshiba has an Intel 945 Chip on board and uses the Intel
Driver and Software which allows me to set the Aspect Ratio
and Resolution.

 

[Guest]

I had windows check the internet for new drivers (by clicking the "update
driver after right clicking the driver in the device manager) and it said
that the drive was the newest one.

I was trying to lower the resolution to get websites to show up larger. I
know that I can zoom the website or increase the font size, but after zooming
on one website, IE stays at that zoom setting and when I browse to other
websites that are set to use the entire screen, they are too wide and I have
to set zoom back to 100%.

Thanks

 

[Paul Randall]

I had windows check the internet for new drivers (by clicking the "update
driver after right clicking the driver in the device manager) and it said
that the drive was the newest one.

I was trying to lower the resolution to get websites to show up larger. I
know that I can zoom the website or increase the font size, but after
zooming
on one website, IE stays at that zoom setting and when I browse to other
websites that are set to use the entire screen, they are too wide and I
have
to set zoom back to 100%.

I use FireFox for temporarily changing font size. Much easier and better
than OE.

-Paul Randall

 

[Spirit]

Go to the Maker's Site and look for Video Drivers and Software.
Also your monitors might have something.

Having Windows look is not sufficient.

 

[Lang Murphy]

I have a 17" widescreen laptop and I am trying to change the screen
resoluton. It defaults to 1440 x 900 (1.6:1) which is the highest
setting.
If I try to change to a lower setting, the view is stretched either
horizontally or vertically depending on the new screen resolution. The
other
available settings are 1280 x 720 (1.78:1), 1152 x 864 (1.33:1) and 1024 x
768 (1.33:1) and 800 x 600 (1.33). Thus the aspect ratios are not the
same
and the picture becomes distorted. Why are none of the avalable lower
settings at the same ratio as the 1440 x 900 (1.6:1)?

Reposted since I did not have the e-mail notofication turned on before.

Thanks for any help.

Unless you have an external CRT monitor, changing resolution on your laptop
screen to anything but the native resolution will result in, well, a crappy
looking screen. Do you know what the native resolution of your laptop screen
is?

Lang

 

[Steve]

Unless you have an external CRT monitor, changing resolution on your laptop
screen to anything but the native resolution will result in, well, a crappy
looking screen.

Everyone says this, but I change resolution all the time on LCD
monitors without any issues. Dunno why it's considered such a
problem...

 

[Lang Murphy]

Everyone says this, but I change resolution all the time on LCD
monitors without any issues. Dunno why it's considered such a
problem...

...Stephen Leacock

Well, my experience is that changing video resolution on an LCD screen to
anything other than the native resolution looks cruddy. Obviously, your
mileage varies.

Lang