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    adjusting aspect ratios for games

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by rrskda, Dec 7, 2011.

  1. rrskda

    rrskda Notebook Enthusiast

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    Apologies if this has been asked before, a quick search didn't reveal anything. So I'm playing Battlefield 3 (r3, i5, 8gb, 750gb) and found I could increase my framerates a bit without losing too much resolution by playing in 1280x768. The problem is the image stretches slightly to compensate, which bugs me. I can't find any control panel function to tell the gpu not to stretch the image, so I'm wondering if any of you know better than I how I can get this to play with nice little vertical black bars on either side instead of stretching to fill the screen? I'm not playing on an external monitor, so those scaling options don't appear.
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Did you look in Intel GPU options? It should be there, at least for other notebooks that I've seen.
     
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    rrskda Notebook Enthusiast

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    won't that only affect Intel's gpu? I thought for using the 540 it would have to be an adjustment to nvidia's settings. Anyway I'll the intel idea when I get home and see if that works.
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    In Optimus, the nVIDIA card does the processing while the Intel card supposedly does the outputting so I think it's worth a shot.
     
    namaiki, Dec 7, 2011
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