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From: Skeleton Man on 8 Apr 2008 20:01
Hi guys,

I just bought a new 22" monitor and for a while was running it on my old
system with onboard intel graphics. Native resolution is 1680 x 1050, but
this makes everything too small and blurry. On the old machine I was able to
run 1600x900 which was comfortable - on my normal machine with a Radeon
X1600 I have dozens of resolutions but 1600x900 isn't one of them! Does this
card not support 16x9 or what ?

Chris


From: Calab on 9 Apr 2008 02:35

"Skeleton Man" <invalid(a)guestwho.com> wrote in message
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| Hi guys,
|
| I just bought a new 22" monitor and for a while was running it on my old
| system with onboard intel graphics. Native resolution is 1680 x 1050, but
| this makes everything too small and blurry. On the old machine I was able
to
| run 1600x900 which was comfortable - on my normal machine with a Radeon
| X1600 I have dozens of resolutions but 1600x900 isn't one of them! Does
this
| card not support 16x9 or what ?

What is the NATIVE resolution of your monitor... That's what you should be
using.

If fonts/icons are too small, change their size, not the screen resolution.


From: GT on 9 Apr 2008 09:11
"Skeleton Man" <invalid(a)guestwho.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guys,
>
> I just bought a new 22" monitor and for a while was running it on my old
> system with onboard intel graphics. Native resolution is 1680 x 1050, but
> this makes everything too small and blurry. On the old machine I was able
> to
> run 1600x900 which was comfortable - on my normal machine with a Radeon
> X1600 I have dozens of resolutions but 1600x900 isn't one of them! Does
> this
> card not support 16x9 or what ?
>
> Chris

The monitor will be plug and play, so the graphics card driver 'should' only
list the modes that the monitor supports. If you go to the advanced screen
settings, then somewhere there is an option to "list all modes". That might
give you 1600 x 900, but if you don't like 1680 x 1050, then 1600 x 900 is
going to be barely any larger and as its not the native resolution of the
screen, it will not be in the correct proportion and will not be sharp.


From: GT on 9 Apr 2008 11:09
"GT" <ContactGT_removeme_(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Skeleton Man" <invalid(a)guestwho.com> wrote in message
> news:Qa2dnYTDTp-Rm2HanZ2dnUVZ_qOknZ2d(a)wightman.ca...
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I just bought a new 22" monitor and for a while was running it on my old
>> system with onboard intel graphics. Native resolution is 1680 x 1050, but
>> this makes everything too small and blurry. On the old machine I was able
>> to
>> run 1600x900 which was comfortable - on my normal machine with a Radeon
>> X1600 I have dozens of resolutions but 1600x900 isn't one of them! Does
>> this
>> card not support 16x9 or what ?
>>
>> Chris
>
> The monitor will be plug and play, so the graphics card driver 'should'
> only list the modes that the monitor supports. If you go to the advanced
> screen settings, then somewhere there is an option to "list all modes".
> That might give you 1600 x 900, but if you don't like 1680 x 1050, then
> 1600 x 900 is going to be barely any larger and as its not the native
> resolution of the screen, it will not be in the correct proportion and
> will not be sharp.

Display Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced button -> "List all Modes..."
button


From: Skeleton Man on 9 Apr 2008 19:55
>What is the NATIVE resolution of your monitor... That's what you should be
>using.

Are you stupid or can you simply not read ? "Native resolution is 1680 x
1050, but this makes everything too small and blurry. "

Ideally I would run at native resolution, but it's not comfortable and IS
NOT clear and sharp as far as text goes.

>If fonts/icons are too small, change their size, not the screen resolution.

Tried that, changing to large fonts, etc just makes it look worse.

Chris


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