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  1. April 14th, 2004, 02:28 AM #1
    TechZ
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    playing games at this res is just wrong all the games i've plaved on my hp zt3020ea look stretched and they dont have a res choice of 1280x800 so no way to fix that, anyone know of an app that can well cut the screen size temp for games and apps, the only choice i hav now is to play games windowed, it horrible
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  2. April 14th, 2004, 08:51 AM #2
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    Of course its stretched - you've got the aspect ratio all mucked up. The standard resolutions would be 1280x1024, 1152x864 and 1024x768. Set your display to one of these.
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  3. April 14th, 2004, 09:30 AM #3
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    Laptops displays don't react particularly well to resolutions other than their native one - usually 1024x768.
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  4. April 15th, 2004, 03:09 PM #4
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    i know that its playing in 16:9 but none of the games allow me to select anything other than 4:3 res's.
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  5. April 15th, 2004, 03:45 PM #5
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    What specific graphics card is in that thing?
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  6. April 15th, 2004, 03:49 PM #6
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    Can you see any of the icons on the screen at that res?
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  7. April 15th, 2004, 03:51 PM #7
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    I'm guessing this is a widescreen laptop? Doesn't look so pretty now, does it?
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  8. April 17th, 2004, 12:14 PM #8
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    ati 9200 w/64mb, 15.4" 16:9 Widescreen laptop, it seems gta vc and nfs hp2 have options for 16:9 screens, at least thats all i can find for now, maybe witht the increase in 16:9 screens more games will have this option
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  9. May 28th, 2004, 11:13 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by TechZ
    ati 9200 w/64mb, 15.4" 16:9 Widescreen laptop, it seems gta vc and nfs hp2 have options for 16:9 screens, at least thats all i can find for now, maybe witht the increase in 16:9 screens more games will have this option

    please see www.widescreengamingforum.com
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  10. May 28th, 2004, 11:53 AM #10
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    thanks
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