Resolution Restriction? Only WS Res 1680x1050? G1s.

Is that correct or is there something screwy with Asus' drivers. The only widescreen resolution I can use on my G1S atm is 1680x1050. The rest are normal 4:3.

That seems pretty damn stupid in my opinion if thats the case. 1680x1050 on DX10 games is going to kill performance.

 

you can certainly reduce the resolution
you should not be able to raise it.
or is this for external display?

 

I can reduce the resolution but thats not the point. I don't want to be playing at a 4:3 Resolution on a Widescreen monitor.

 

Most games set the resolution within the game, independent of Windows' desktop resolution.

 

Completely missing the point. If I use 1440x900 or 1280x720 it doesn't expand fully onto the monitor. It plays in some weird half assed window. The LCD doesn't seem to support ANY other widescreen resolutions outside 1680x1050 which is effing retarded.

 

Sorry if I missed your point. But you never said that if you use 1440x900 or 1280x720 it doesn't expand fully onto the monitor. Isn't there a setting in the vga driver that allows stretching (if that's what you want)?

 

Do u mean it has black bars? If so then check the nvidia control panel under flat panel scaling.

 

No I mean quite literally it just plays in a window the size of what the resolution should be compared to my 1680x1050.

Here, call of juarez screenshot as an example:

Actually scratch that. I don't know what happened but it's not doing it anymore. Weird.

Oh well thanks guys lol.

 

I would guess you had the exact same issue as this poster said:

It is indeed a setting in the GPU control panel.

 

also, just as a basic troubleshooting point for someone else who might have this problem, many games come with a "windowed" option, just deselect this.

 

Taking screenshots really isn't helping. Suffice to say in games like LOTRO unless I run at 1680x1050 everything looks seriously stretched because the other resolutions 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, 1400x1050, 1600x1024 are all standard resolution. They are not WXGA. They are just 4:3 XGA.

Widescreen 16:9 or 16:10 resolutions are:

1280x720, 1280x800, 1366x768, 1440x900, 1680x1050.

Only one of these is supported on the G1S which is a Widescreen LCD.

http://www.gen-x-pc.com/lcd3.htm

It's really starting to piss me off and I find it hard to believe the rest of you haven't noticed this yet.

 

Ok I see what you mean now. It happenned to me as well. I ended up using the largest feasible resolution and living with the black bars.

There should be a way of setting different 16:9 resolutions, maybe coolbits unlocks them? I don't have any good suggestion...

 

The notebook can support them but friggin Vista only has those above resolutions as 'acceptable' so many games that go purely by supported desktop resolutions will be stretched and ****ty.

Call of Juarez is a good example. It runs in 1440x900 just fine and it doesn't look stretched out. It is a regular 16:9 Resolution for this LCD.

 

Unless you have an extremely powerful video card, running a DX10 game or even the newer DX9 games will be extremely slow at higher resolutions.

Update to your latest driver from nVidia I would assume, since that is what most Asus come with.

Anyway the issue with not filling the entire screen is just a scaling probelm and can easily be fixed through the Nvidia driver control panel. Simply do the following steps to solve this problem. this goes for any one with the same issue:

1. Open nVidia control panel either by right clicking on the desktop or by simply opening it through windows control panel

2. Select the "Display" Category

3. Select "Change Flat-Panel Scaling"

4. Select one of the options that allows you to scale eg. "nvidia scaling"

That should fix the scaling issue. Otherwise, Windows will only show the resolutions made available to it by the graphics card's drivers, so make sure you are using the latest ones.

 

Success. Downloaded a driver with a modded INF From Laptopvideo2go.com (Release 101.28, seems really good so far) and it unlocked all the resolutions that the Asus drivers were missing.

 

Glad you worked it out.

 

Thanks for posting the link to the drivers, also. Glad you found the solution!

 

I'm glad there was a fix. I cancelled an order because of this. Now I can reorder.:smile: