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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Clark Kent on August 20, 2005, 12:37:17 am

Title: Qidescreen notebook question
Post by: Clark Kent on August 20, 2005, 12:37:17 am

Is there a way to take a widescreen notebook and go back to a more standard resolution without a stretched look on the screen?  I realize this would leave some of the screen unused, but it would appear the SFC does not support widescreen resolutions very well.

Title: Re: Qidescreen notebook question
Post by: SkyFlyer on August 20, 2005, 03:31:13 am

Run in 1280x1024... I run on a widescreen LCD and it doesnt look very stretched.

Title: Re: Qidescreen notebook question
Post by: Clark Kent on August 20, 2005, 12:01:51 pm

Quote from: SkyFlyer on August 20, 2005, 03:31:13 am

Run in 1280x1024... I run on a widescreen LCD and it doesnt look very stretched.

The max my screen will go to is 1440x900

Title: Re: Widescreen notebook question
Post by: Commander Maxillius on August 20, 2005, 12:29:50 pm

My labtop hasa setting to stretch the image to fill the screen or not.  Say I wanted to set the res to 800x600.  If that checkbox it checked, the screen doesn't look all blurry like a lower resolution would look on an LCD screen, it just a little window in the middle of the screen that's just as clear as it would be at 1024x768.  But I think you'll have to have a Trident video card in your laptop for that, I'm not sure if other makers will feature that.

Title: Re: Qidescreen notebook question
Post by: SkyFlyer on August 20, 2005, 10:12:58 pm

ATI cards do it automatically... at least my dads ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility does.