re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! Sunday, June 8, 2003 at 11:34 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jagged ben (3536 messages posted) And the second time today you've overstated. I have the same computer as this guy and I don't have the problems he has. Games work beautifully on my computer at 1024x768. On Sunday, June 8, 2003 at 3:47 pm, Ricer46 wrote: >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. > > Written in response to: re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (Ricer46: Sunday, June 8, 2003 at 3:47 pm) Responses to this message: re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (Ricer46: Monday, June 9, 2003 at 7:42 am) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (Ricer46: Monday, June 9, 2003 at 8:11 am) All messages in this thread [show all] laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (J: Sun, Jun 8, 2003, 2:16 pm) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (Bob B: Sun, Jun 8, 2003, 2:50 pm) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (666: Sun, Jun 8, 2003, 3:37 pm) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (Ricer46: Sun, Jun 8, 2003, 3:47 pm) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (jagged ben: Sun, Jun 8, 2003, 11:34 pm) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (Ricer46: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 7:42 am) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (Ricer46: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 8:11 am) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (jagged ben: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 9:15 pm) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (Ricer46: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 10:26 pm) re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (jagged ben: Sun, Jun 8, 2003, 11:36 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum