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re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen!
Monday, June 9, 2003 at 10:26 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (22013 messages posted)


Native Resolution has everything to do with the original thread. If the Native Res 
is used and the game is programmed for 640x480, you get the black border with the 
small display. If you force it to full screen, the display looks fuzzy and generally 
just ugly. That's what all of these articles are stating. I did not make it up, nor 
exaggerate the problem.

Now if the Native Resolution of your display is 1280x1024, you can probably get a 
good image, since no interpolation is required , 640x480 doubled is 1280x960, which 
I guess would leave two small bands of black32 pixels high at the top and bottom. 
But if the Native Resolution is 1024x768, there is simply no way to make 640x480 
look good on an LCD. 




On Monday, June 9, 2003 at 9:15 pm, jagged ben wrote:
>What's the point of this now?  Reading a bunch of articles is supposed to make me 
>disbelieve my own eyes?  
>
>Regardless of whether the Windows Desktop looks like crap  on an LCD screen that 
>isn't at it's native resolution, that has nothing to do with the original subject 
>of this thread.  The poster should be able to get his game to run on his whole screen, 
>and it shouldn't look bad.
>
>




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re: laptop monitor setting leaves black space around screen! (jagged ben: Monday, June 9, 2003 at 9:15 pm)

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-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)
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