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    Widescreen creates problems?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by abcdefg, Jan 14, 2006.

  1. abcdefg

    abcdefg Notebook Consultant

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    Seeing a lot of posts with widescreen problems... Does it really cause games to crash because of native resoulutions? If so, can you set it so that it treats the 17 inch wide screen as a 15.4 normal?
     
    abcdefg, Jan 14, 2006
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    15.4 is also widescreen. Do you mean 15 inch normal? I have never experienced game crashes due to non widescreen support, the worst I've seen is a stretched image.
    However, your graphics drivers should have options for placing black bars to the sides of your screens (making the visible area non-widescreen) when you run a non-widescreen application.
     
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  3. Klepzeiker

    Klepzeiker Notebook Consultant

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    Never had a problem.
     
    Klepzeiker, Jan 15, 2006
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