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"Expand while maintaining aspect ratio"; doesn't scale properly
Hello all:
A half hour's worth of forum searching brought up the issue of scaling lower resolution images on widescreen notebook displays, however, no one seems to be having the kind of issue I'm having.
Anyhow, the problem I'm having is with the "Expand while maintaining aspect ratio" option in the advanced display properties. I use my XPS notebook mostly for gaming, and this option does a decent job of maintaining a letterboxed 4:3 image when I set the screen to any of the following resolutions:
800x600
1024x768
1600x1200
It also fills the screen properly to it's 16:10 ratio in 1920x1200 and 1280x800.
Every resolution other than the ones listed, however, are distorted in one form or another on my laptop's screen (the two biggest problems are making everything "fat", by not properly letterboxing certain resolutions; or filling the screen, and having to move the mouse to the top and bottom of the screen to scroll to the rest of the image).
Being a gamer, it is very frustrating not being able to set the resolution to 1280x1024 without eveything looking "fat", or to 1290x960 without having the tops and bottoms of the picture chopped off.
I just want to be able to set a resolution in a game to anything I want and have it scale to its proper 16:10, 4:3, or 5:4 aspect ratio. Is that too much to ask?
I have an ATi MOBILITY Radeon 9700 with Omega 2.6.05a drivers (DELL's default drivers have the same scaling problem as well...)
Any help with this issue is appreciated. Thanks.
A half hour's worth of forum searching brought up the issue of scaling lower resolution images on widescreen notebook displays, however, no one seems to be having the kind of issue I'm having.
Anyhow, the problem I'm having is with the "Expand while maintaining aspect ratio" option in the advanced display properties. I use my XPS notebook mostly for gaming, and this option does a decent job of maintaining a letterboxed 4:3 image when I set the screen to any of the following resolutions:
800x600
1024x768
1600x1200
It also fills the screen properly to it's 16:10 ratio in 1920x1200 and 1280x800.
Every resolution other than the ones listed, however, are distorted in one form or another on my laptop's screen (the two biggest problems are making everything "fat", by not properly letterboxing certain resolutions; or filling the screen, and having to move the mouse to the top and bottom of the screen to scroll to the rest of the image).
Being a gamer, it is very frustrating not being able to set the resolution to 1280x1024 without eveything looking "fat", or to 1290x960 without having the tops and bottoms of the picture chopped off.
I just want to be able to set a resolution in a game to anything I want and have it scale to its proper 16:10, 4:3, or 5:4 aspect ratio. Is that too much to ask?
I have an ATi MOBILITY Radeon 9700 with Omega 2.6.05a drivers (DELL's default drivers have the same scaling problem as well...)
Any help with this issue is appreciated. Thanks.
If you only want the 4.3 just go into your bios pages they have a feature it is expand image disable it select apply changes then reboot. But for the life of me i can't understand why you would want to give up this awsom widescreen display this is a first for me.There is no way i would give my display up lol. Best wishes
Inspiron XPS Gen 1
3.4 H/T processor
1 gig ram
256 ddr ati 9800
15.4 wide aspect ultra sharp
wuxga(1920x1200) display
Operating system windows xp home
Service pk 2
Logitech MX750 wireless mouse
Nostromo n52 gamepad- Let me clarify a bit: the reason why I wanted to be able to properly use 1680x1050, 1280x1024, and 1280x960 is because most games don't support widescreen resolutions, and I've noticed that my laptop simply isn't fast enough to run most games made after 2002 at 1600x1200 without signifigant framerate drops. I was hoping there would be some program I could download to manually resize the image (like you can do with CRT monitors); looks like I guess I'll just have to deal with 1024x768, although it would have been nice to step up to slightly higher resolutions. Either that, or fork over $400 for the obviously overpriced 9800... :(
Yes the 9800 is expencive but is wort evry penny i have owend systems with both a 9100 with the 9700 and a XPS with the 9800.And WOW what a difference.
Inspiron XPS Gen 1
3.4 H/T processor
1 gig ram
256 ddr ati 9800
15.4 wide aspect ultra sharp
wuxga(1920x1200) display
Operating system windows xp home
Service pk 2
Logitech MX750 wireless mouse
Nostromo n52 gamepad- Well unfortunately, upgrading isn't an option for me right now... :(
So basically what everyone is saying the 9700 can't scale images above 1280x1024. But if this is true, then why can't it scale 1280x1024 or 1280x900 correctly? And why would DELL even include such a horrible card in their gaming laptops, knowing that gamers do a lot of resolution switching (or at least include some resizing software)? Makes me wonder why I didn't get an Alienware or a Falcon instead...
Oh well, no point in complaining any longer. Thanks for the help anyway, guys.
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Posted April 27th, 2005 17:00