Q: Hi, just bought a new Toshiba
I Sattilite 2435-S255 notebook. When I change the screen resolution to 1024X768 over, the desktop stretched more than the size of the screen. This shows approximately 60% of the desktop. Im moving the mouse around the screen to the other parts of the desktop.
How can I see this problem?
Please help
Best Answer: It sounds as though the game is designed to run in a lower screen resolution than is set for regular viewing. If his screen resoulution is set at something like 1280×1024 (which is what I'm looking at now) and the game is designed to run in 800×600 it will complain.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
There is no way to have more sharpness view. I spent hours trying and the result was nothing.
Any way, thank you very much for the valuable information you posted.
When I get any thing new regarding this supject, I'll post it here.
what the hell is sharpness view?
do you know what the native resolution of hte LCD is?
does cleartype or font smoothing do anything when they are on\off?
Re:There is no way to have more sharpness view. I spent hours trying and the result was nothing.
Any way, thank you very much for the valuable information you posted.
When I get any thing new regarding this supject, I'll post it here.
Re:well i said if the "laptop" didn't support it, not the lcd. I was reffering to the graphics accelerator. If it did not support a certain resolution it would not show it.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
If the laptop didn't support 1024×768 it wouldn't have showed it. I suggest you download/install the latest video and monitor drivers. Reboot. Check it, start with the lowest resolution and work your way up. You might want to check the refresh rate as well.
Not true. Often the internal video card is capable of displaying more than the LCD.
My co-workers IBM Thinkpad T23 has native 1024×768, but he runs his resolution at 1280×1024 I believe…… as a result, we he's docked he has a full desktop, undocked on LCD he has the "virtual desktop" whereby moving the mouse to the edge of the screen scrolls. Many laptops, and even desktop computers support this.
Re:LCDs can look fuzzy when they're at resolutions other than their native res. But they beat CRTs on sharpness at their native res.
From DrisplayMate:
The CRT beam produces images with softer edges that are not as sharp as an LCD at its native resolution.
http://www.displaymate.com/crtvslcd.html
Re:I disagree. It is a common misconception (http://www.monitorsdirect.com/before/expert/jims_corner/lcd_faqs.shtml) that LCD's are sharper than CRT's. It's true that they are brighter but not sharper. I have seen many a customers brand spanking new LCD's look fuzzy.
Tips for getting that picture sharper:
Install monitor driver
Lower resolution
Check refresh rate
Turn on Microsoft Clear Type (display properties>appearance>effects>2nd drop down>clear type
guy is right about exercising the warranty, you got one still so use it. Give them a call and ask them what's going. My guess is they aren't gonna know squat
Re:That's weird. LCDs should be pretty sharp. Sharper than CRTs, anyway. Since you just bought it, you might consider exercising mfr. warranty or doing an OTC exchange or something. Er, or call tech support and see what they think (tho that'd be kinda hard since it's difficult to describe your LCD problem in a quantifiable manner…). GL
Re:It seems that I should stick to 1024X768 resolution.
What bother me is the fonts and graphics are not very sharp. It is little fuzzy.
Re:I've seen many lappys do this. My old Soyo 9800 does that for any res over 640×480. The LCD is maxing out, so the system is creating a "virtual desktop".
LCD's aren't like CRT monitors. The resolution is fixed. Lower resolutions are created by pixel doubling, and higher resolutions just can't happen.
It's not necessarily a bad thing. Just verify the specs of your lappy and see what its max resolution is.
Re:BTW, I've had a customer with resolution problems on a laptop because he was using a docking station. His Dell Inspiron had one resolution while out of the station and another while plugged in the station (which makes for more than one monitor driver in device manager). So what happend is that he had the proper driver installed for when the laptop was out of the docking station but a generic monitor driver for when it was plugged in.
Re:Thanks for all,
In fact, I used many laptops before. I worked with HP, Dell, Sony, and Compaq. They all are flexible in screen resolution resizing.
This one is different and I don't know why.
I'll try to download the latest driver to see if it's going to work.
Thanks again,
Re:If the laptop didn't support 1024×768 it wouldn't have showed it. I suggest you download/install the latest video and monitor drivers. Reboot. Check it, start with the lowest resolution and work your way up. You might want to check the refresh rate as well.
Re:Don't think you can. The laptop's LCD screen has a finite number of pixels, so resolutions above 1024×768 can't be displayed (you'd have to squeeze more than one pixel of data into each screen pixel).
If you plug the laptop into a CRT and disable the LCD, it ought to display higher resolutions without the "desktop-stretching" effect.
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