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The Shaggy D.A.
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PostPosted: 21:18 - 13 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reducing laptop screen resolution Reply with quote

My laptop screen runs at 1600x1200, but for a few experiments I want to run it at 1024x768. I can do this by the usual method of just reducing the resolution, but it stretches to fill my whole screen. What I'd like to achieve is to have the equivalent of a 1024x768 window, with the rest of the screen unused.

Any software out there that'll let me do this?
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PostPosted: 21:35 - 13 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Possibly a heavily modified driver. Unfortunately normally the screen it's self using the VGA standard or whatever tells the graphics card what resolutions it's capable of (hence the list that is found in properties), and when the screen is informed by the graphics card what resolution is being pumped out (well, when it detects it), the screen it's self is what "stretches" the image, so hardware not software. This is evidenced by some old laptops that displayed the windows loading screen in pixel perfect resolution in the centre of the screen as you are describing.

Maybe some crazy linux hax, and then run a VM inside of that. Yeah that ought to do it, I heard X can literally be infinitely configured Thumbs Up Razz
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PostPosted: 21:48 - 13 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

which graphics card?
and what os?
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PostPosted: 21:51 - 13 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 21:58 - 13 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check the BIOS for an option like 'LCD Panel Expansion' or something similar, which either makes the selected resolution fill the entire screen or just displays it pixel-perfect. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:05 - 13 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Turning off LCD expansion works until Windows gets its talons into it, then it goes back to stretching.
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PostPosted: 00:46 - 14 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

i can only get it to non-fill the screen when using an external display using the force resolution in catalyst control. its under the advanced set-up tab thingy.
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PostPosted: 09:52 - 14 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found an extra "Scale image to panel size" setting Thumbs Up
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