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    Widescreen LCD and games

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ray50000, Aug 1, 2005.

  1. ray50000

    ray50000 Notebook Evangelist

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    I have an Asus w3v with an ATI x600. When I play older games like Starcraft they look really distorted at their low resolutions and on the widescreen. I heard that you can change the settings so that non-widescreen games will run with black bars on the side of the screen. Does anyone know how to do this?
     
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  2. Tofu

    Tofu Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm curious about this too...
     
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  3. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    change your BIOS setting so that the screen is not "stretched"
     
    drumfu, Aug 1, 2005
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  4. ray50000

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    How do I go about doing that?
     
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    it may be driver based. I remember using a desktop moded cat 5.6 and I got black bars around everything (the LCD will NOT go out of its native mode) where as when I upgraded to the mobile cat 5.7's, everything got stretched
     
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    If you're using ATI's Control Panel, uncheck 'Scale image to panel size'.
    If you're using Catalyst Control Centre, there should be a similar option somewhere under Displays.

    Check you're BIOS too, on the Inspiron 600m it is called 'Screen Expansion'. Disable it if you don't want the image to stretch.
     
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  7. ray50000

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    Ah, ok, thank you
     
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