re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen!
Sunday, June 8, 2003 at 3:47 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(21954 messages posted)
Second one of these today, it's the way LCD's work. They really want to run at their
design resolution, so 640x480 only uses the central pixels. LCD's do an awful job
of interpolation to other resolutions, so they typically just don't do it at all.
If you change the display resoltion for Windows to 640x480 (although obviously it
would make no sense to do so) you'll get the same result.
This problem most often crops up when a user buys an 1152x864 display and then tries
to run it at 1024x768 to make the text bigger - it doesn't work.
On Sunday, June 8, 2003 at 2:16 pm, J wrote:
>I have a dell Inspiron 8100 laptop and everytime I try to play any game the resolution
>on my monitor refuses to change and I have black space around the video window.
>ex: my resolution is 1024x800 and when a 640x480 game launches, the monitor will
>stay at 1024 x 800 with a small screen in the middle and lots of black space around
>the image. I have tried adjusting my monitor settings with no luck. Is this something
>I have to change manually before I start the game or could it be an issue with my
>nvidia Geforce2go video card?
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