Maximizing screen resolution

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Hi,

I have a notebook and my default screen resolution is 1280x768. I wonted to
increase this size, but was unable to this until disabling the "Hide modes
that this monitor cannot display" in Monitor properties. Once I selected the
higher screen resolution I was able to see everything very well but I've only
seen a part of the screen. If I navigate to the left tho whole screen scrolls
to the left and then the right part is not shown, the same is with the up and
down of the screen. It looks like virtually I have bigger screen than the one
I really have.
Does anyone have any suggestion so that this resolution is skewed to fit my
screen size (so fonts will become smaller and so), because I can't do it
manually as on any other monitor as this is a notebook.

Thank for all your help in advance.
 
Hi,

I have a notebook and my default screen resolution is 1280x768. I wonted to
increase this size, but was unable to this until disabling the "Hide modes
that this monitor cannot display" in Monitor properties. Once I selected the
higher screen resolution I was able to see everything very well but I've only
seen a part of the screen. If I navigate to the left tho whole screen scrolls
to the left and then the right part is not shown, the same is with the up and
down of the screen. It looks like virtually I have bigger screen than the one
I really have.
Does anyone have any suggestion so that this resolution is skewed to fit my
screen size (so fonts will become smaller and so), because I can't do it
manually as on any other monitor as this is a notebook.

Thank for all your help in advance.
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LCD displays, as found in laptops and flat-panel monitors, cannot
effectively display resolutions higher than their "natural"
resolution. Think of the display like an array of tiny colored light
bulbs: you can't display a dot smaller than one of the bulbs, or a
line narrower.
JA
 
John A. said:
LCD displays, as found in laptops and flat-panel monitors, cannot
effectively display resolutions higher than their "natural"
resolution. Think of the display like an array of tiny colored light
bulbs: you can't display a dot smaller than one of the bulbs, or a
line narrower.
JA
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Thanks for quick response.

but I was able to this on my CRT monitor in the past. Isn't it a same thing?
and sorry if I'm asking stupid questions!
 
Thanks for quick response.

but I was able to this on my CRT monitor in the past. Isn't it a same thing?
and sorry if I'm asking stupid questions!
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The CRT's display works by scanning an electron beam across the screen
of colored phosphor dots. It has its limits too, in the spacing of the
phosphor dots and, usually more significantly, the tightness of the
beam, but it is able to vary the spacing of the scans. Dots that are
half-hit or grazed mostly glow only, I believe, where they are hit.

On an LCD the "scan line" equivalents are fixed. Displaying, for
example, a 2048x1536 display mode on a native 1024x768 LCD is more
like making a comparable reduction in an image file. Pixels will be
combined and averaged, effectively giving you the lower-resolution
display while still using all the video memory & processor time of the
higher resolution.
JA
 
It has to do with vga drivers more than lcd monitors
because i have the same problem when using intel vga chipset but i don't
have that problem when i use nvidia vga chipset. Both using the same monitor
and the same resolution that is larger than the native resolution. Nvidia
drivers will squeeze the whole screen to fit inside the monitor.

JOE
 
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