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    Question of games that resize the screen resolution

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by bluesboy, May 18, 2006.

  1. bluesboy

    bluesboy Notebook Consultant

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    Okay, here's a newbie question for you. If I am using a widescreen notebook (1200 x 800) and I'm playing a game that for whatever reason wants the screen set to 800 x 600, what happens? Does the game play in a "window" on the desktop? Does it resize my resolution and cause it to look all stretched out on the widescreen? (I ask this because of some old games that like the screen resolution to be at 800x600).

    Thanks for any info
     
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    The game gets stretched and it would look not as good as it would on high rez. It would keep its ratio (if you enable that option - it'll add black bars to the sides of the screen) but multiple pixels would be used on your screen to make up one in game pixel making the game look un-anti aliased.
     
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  3. flanken

    flanken Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    You can set your notebook to do any of the possibilities you mentioned; it can either stretch it out completely, stretch it out but preserving the aspect ratio (i.e. have vertical black bars on the edges), or not stretch it out, and keep it at native resolution in the center (which is what I do for 1024x768 games). Take a look at your video driver settings, and it should give you control over this.
     
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    Meaker@Sager, May 19, 2006
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