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    Dell XPS Inspirion Gen 2 Teething Problems

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by rhodesy, Sep 12, 2005.

  1. rhodesy

    rhodesy Newbie

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    Hey all,

    I just bought a brand new Dell XPS Inspirion Gen 2 - 2ghz, 2gb ram and 256mb nvidia gd 6800 GO ultra.

    I have updated the graphics drivers to get battlefield 2 workign properly and I have a problem.

    The screen res is natively huge and if you settle for anythign less then it looks terrible - 1920 x 1200. because of this - font would be hard to read at 90 dpi so by default it is set at 120 dpi.
    The problem with this is that at 120 dpi images look terrible - if you visit websites the logos look completely wrong.

    Is there anyway to fix this - I dont mind having a lower screen res if the screen looks just as nice,

    Thanks
     
    rhodesy, Sep 12, 2005
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  2. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    the default is 96 dpi, not 90.

    try that and see if it looks better.
     
    drumfu, Sep 12, 2005
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    Howdogg74 Notebook Enthusiast

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    No unfortunately your are stuck with either blocky graphics or smaller text. Give the default 96dpi a shot for text with icons set to large. You will get used to it after a few days.
     
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  4. drumfu

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    forgot to mention that you can turn off "stretching" in the BIOS. that way, when you go to a lower res than native, it doesn't stretch out the picture. should remain crisp and clean.


    edit: but you will get black bars
     
    drumfu, Sep 12, 2005
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  5. rhodesy

    rhodesy Newbie

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    Thans for your advice....I meant 96 dpi sorry. I have it currently set to 1280x800 and it seems to be virtually perfect...
    Apart from my icons botton right look a little smaller but that could be my eyes playing tricks...
    btw - what settings do you guys use? And surely dell should have realised about IE producing dodgy images in their default settings?
     
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    I'v just tried the stretch setting in the bios - it worked with the bios screen and the xp laoding screen but everything else streatches still - whatever res you set it as :(
     
    rhodesy, Sep 12, 2005
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    I've foudn the solution!!! Don't use Internet Explored use Fire fox :)
     
    rhodesy, Sep 12, 2005
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    i thot you were talking about gaming, not everyday use
     
    drumfu, Sep 12, 2005
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    go to dell and download the IE imagine resizing tool and the images will go back to normal.
     
    azntiger1000, Sep 12, 2005
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