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    Asus N10J with nVidia 9300m Drivers - Compress Video?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by HTWingNut, Nov 11, 2008.

  1. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    I love my N10J. It's the best of portability with enough power to play many of the games I like.

    However, the 1024x600 resolution screen causes some concern.

    Games like Sins of a Solar Empire require minimum 1024x768 resolution.

    The Intel GMA 950 drivers have an option for "compressed" video, so you can fit 1024x768 on your 1024x600 screen. But since the GMA 950 is such a timid GPU, it doesn't handle many games well, especially when having to interpolate 1024x768 on the 1024x600 screen.

    I was wondering if there is a way to do the same with the nVidia drivers to fit 1024x768 resolution on the 1024x600 screen so I could play some games!
     
  2. bunbuns

    bunbuns Notebook Consultant

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    Give the file "Universal Resolution Changer" a try found on this page:

    http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Racer_S_Hacks

    It will "force" a display resolution but the internal game resolution will still be the same (A 1024x768 game will still be rendered at 1024x768 pixels but upscaled/downscaled to the forced resolution in the same way monitor/gpu scaling work for notebooks) or at least thats how i understand it.

    Then again i thinking maybe the other answer you want is to use GPU/Monitor scaling option in the Nvida control panel?

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