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    Playing non widescreen games on E1705...

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Fredrick_NP, Apr 27, 2006.

  1. Fredrick_NP

    Fredrick_NP Notebook Consultant

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    When I ordered the E1705, I assumed games that were not widescreen would simply put black bars around the image to compensate. But thats not what my notebook is doing...

    For example, If a game is 1024x768, the notebook forces the image to 1440x900, which stretches it out horribly. Is there a way to make is so it DOES put black borders around the image to keep the game at it's regular resolution?

    I got this notebook mainly for games, and a lot of the games I want to play do not have widescreen support. I simply can not play a game that has it's picture strtched out like that. In fact... If I can't find a way around this, I very well may return this notebook.
     
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    Fredrick_NP Notebook Consultant

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    Thank you... but I have been there before. And from what I understand, the people there are TRYING to strectch the picture out, to get a kind of fake widescreen thing.
     
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    You can go to bios (F2 during the boot) and change the display setting so that it will not stretch. If there is a fancier solution, I would also like to know.
     
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    Fredrick_NP Notebook Consultant

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    ^Could you please explain that a little more? Like when do you press F2, and what do you have to do after that?
     
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    No...the widescreen gaming forum is not trying to strech anything...they provide solutions on how to modify the game's settings so things ARENT streched. Some game dont support a widescreen res out of the box, and you have to force it to do it. There is nothing "fake" about it.

    What game are you trying to play?
     
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    Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst.

    No I have seen what they do. Sometimes their "widescreen" solution simply streatches the picture out. Pretty pointless IMO.

    Also I did that F2 thing... it seemed like it was going to work... because the actualy bios window de streatched when I switched it over. However I turned on PSO... and its still doing it. Very dissapointing. I dont understand why that didn't work.
     
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    Looks like that game doesent have a solution yet. have you looked for the .ini or .cfg files? Usually the resolution setting are in there. Just change it to the resolution of your desktop.
     
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    Which video card do you have? (ATI or Nvidia)

    If you have one of the ATI cards, there is an option in the display properties to toggle full screen scaling.

    Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> ATI Displays -> Panel -> Panel Attributes -> Scale Image to Panel Size

    I'm not sure about Nvidia, but I imagine there must be an analog.
     
    lumberbunny, Apr 27, 2006
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