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Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:31 am Post subject:
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I am running World of Warcraft on my dell laptop
with the "GeForce4 440 Go" card.
However when I play the game, the display area
reduces signifigantly, leaving the rest of the
screen black.
So, the game shows up in a small center area
surrounded by a large black border.
any ideas?
thx,
- Gordon |
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RJT
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:46 am Post subject:
Re: reduced display area when playing games |
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g9chan@uwaterloo.ca wrote:
| Quote: | I am running World of Warcraft on my dell laptop
with the "GeForce4 440 Go" card.
However when I play the game, the display area
reduces signifigantly, leaving the rest of the
screen black.
So, the game shows up in a small center area
surrounded by a large black border.
any ideas?
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Sure. Either the BIOS or the drivers are doing this. You will find a
setting for the graph card telling it how to display lower resolution
graphics: either fill to screen or at it's native res. The first will
scale the picture to fit, and might not look all that good, but it will
use the entire display area, the latter seems to be active. Look in the
advanced display settings of the nVidia drivers, there's a setting for
the way lower res is to be displayed on a TFT screen. But it could also
be in the BIOS settings (seen that on an IBM notebook I've had a few
years ago). |
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dvus
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:28 am Post subject:
Re: reduced display area when playing games |
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RJT wrote:
| Quote: | g9chan@uwaterloo.ca wrote:
I am running World of Warcraft on my dell laptop
with the "GeForce4 440 Go" card.
However when I play the game, the display area
reduces signifigantly, leaving the rest of the
screen black.
So, the game shows up in a small center area
surrounded by a large black border.
any ideas?
Sure. Either the BIOS or the drivers are doing this. You will find a
setting for the graph card telling it how to display lower resolution
graphics: either fill to screen or at it's native res. The first will
scale the picture to fit, and might not look all that good, but it
will use the entire display area, the latter seems to be active. Look
in the advanced display settings of the nVidia drivers, there's a
setting for the way lower res is to be displayed on a TFT screen. But
it could also be in the BIOS settings (seen that on an IBM notebook
I've had a few years ago).
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Hell, anytime I set my monitor to a previously unused resolution I have to
resize the display for it. It usually isn't a huge adjustment, but it always
seems to be too small rather than too large before re-sizing.
dvus |
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Spack
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject:
Re: reduced display area when playing games |
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"dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:32rptgF3o4k1aU1@individual.net...
| Quote: | RJT wrote:
g9chan@uwaterloo.ca wrote:
I am running World of Warcraft on my dell laptop
with the "GeForce4 440 Go" card.
However when I play the game, the display area
reduces signifigantly, leaving the rest of the
screen black.
So, the game shows up in a small center area
surrounded by a large black border.
any ideas?
Sure. Either the BIOS or the drivers are doing this. You will find a
setting for the graph card telling it how to display lower resolution
graphics: either fill to screen or at it's native res. The first will
scale the picture to fit, and might not look all that good, but it
will use the entire display area, the latter seems to be active. Look
in the advanced display settings of the nVidia drivers, there's a
setting for the way lower res is to be displayed on a TFT screen. But
it could also be in the BIOS settings (seen that on an IBM notebook
I've had a few years ago).
Hell, anytime I set my monitor to a previously unused resolution I have to
resize the display for it. It usually isn't a huge adjustment, but it
always seems to be too small rather than too large before re-sizing.
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The OP has a laptop - the laptop screen doesn't work in the same way as a
CRT monitor. Most laptops will show a lower resolution image than the LCD
screen is capable of with black surround, and as RJT pointed out some allow
the image to be scaled to fill the screen.
Dan |
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:22 pm Post subject:
Re: reduced display area when playing games |
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I think that the native resolution might be set incorrectly as a lower
resolution. Is there anyway to check the current native resolution? and
change it?
- Gordon |
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Spack
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject:
Re: reduced display area when playing games |
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<g9chan@uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
news:1103732574.670906.301480@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | I think that the native resolution might be set incorrectly as a lower
resolution. Is there anyway to check the current native resolution? and
change it?
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There should be a setting in World of Warcraft to change the resolution.
However, higher res often means it runs slower, especially on a chipset such
as the one you have. Other than that, as RJT mentioned there might be a BIOS
setting or option in the Dell utilities to force it to scale the display.
Dan |
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