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    Drivers from Intel

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by dustin_broke, Oct 13, 2011.

  1. dustin_broke

    dustin_broke Notebook Consultant

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    Ok I did try and use the latest drivers from Intel and it did improve the FPS for my games but I noticed that when I play games like Crysis 2 on 800x600 res it doesn't look right meaning everything looks little skinny not that skinny but it is more skinny than normal. I think if my screen was able to stretch the display to fit my widescreen on my notebook it would look normal. I remember having this problem with The Sims 2 game and only way to fix it was set the res to 1366x768. For The Sims 2 game both the Sony driver and Intel driver did the same thing at 800x600 or basicly any res that is not for widescreen.



    I do know that for Crysis 2 using the Sonys latest drivers didn't look skinny at all when the res was at 800x600. I don't know why. But the performance is better using Intel drivers.





    Does anyone know how to make it so at 800x600 res it will look not skinny? Since It's best to play the game on lowest res for Crysis 2 since it's a graphical game.
     
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    Intel Control Panel > Scaling > Scale Full Screen

    Does that help the issue at all?
     
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    dustin_broke Notebook Consultant

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    I can't find anything that says scaling on the Intel control panel I see the Display, 3D, Media etc and non have scaling. I wanted basicly to eather stretch the screen so everything doesn't look skinny or keep the square screen meaning display actualy 800x600 res but widen the whole game inside so everything in the game looks normal.
     
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    dustin_broke Notebook Consultant

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    I was actualy supprised but with the latest drivers from Intel I now have DirectX 10.1 for my video card. But I don't know if there is any difference from DirectX 10 and 10.1. I noticed that even Windows has DirectX 11 the video card is not the same it's only 10.1 now. But still better than 10.
     
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    Maybe a screenshot will help. (I should have been more specific.)

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    Ok this is what I see and I don't see scaling. I took a screenshot of my screen.
     

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    I kinda wonder if this is what Sony meant by to use there drivers since they been tested and customized to work best for my notebook. Basicly the Intel drivers haven't been customized to work for my Sony notebook. I kinda wonder if I should go back to the OEM driver so the screen looks right and not skinny.
     
    dustin_broke, Oct 14, 2011
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