9100 screen resolution

Hey i just bought a new 9100 and everythings great exept a little light leakage at the bottom [ ], but how do you change it so that when you lower the resolution from 1920 1200 to anything less for games or something that it doesnt make like a 4inch black border on all sides of the screen?

 

There is a know problem with ATI cards that prevent the card stretching of the video to fill the screen at any non-native resolution above 1200. This means that the black border isn't going away. I even tried loading Omegacorner ATI drivers, but got no better result. If you set the disply font at large (120 dpi instead of normal, which is 96 dpi)it is better. You can also set the icons and menus to large. This helps quite a bit. I thought about sending it back, but with the changes, it works pretty good for my eyes. I wanted a fast machine with dual layer DVD and this seems to fit the bill. I might have got a WSXGA if I had know. Shame on Dell.

Chris

 

I saw a Sony VIAO with a WUXGA ATI 9700 card yesterday. It doesn't even give a 1680x1050 option because the card doesn't support that at full screen scaled size. Similar to Dell, but it's not an option that shows. The Xbrite screens look good, but I woudn't want something that reflected every light in the room, and it does.

 

Right click on the desk top and select properties. Select the Appearance tab, click the Effects button and chose Large Icons. On the Settings tab select the Advanced button and chose Large Fonts (120 dpi). Large isn't big enough, you can try putting in a custom setting. Save and restart Windows. This should make it better. This may cause some graphics distortion in Internet Explorer but there is a quick fix for that.

I made the changes and and everything is great. Here's how to make the change if you get bad graphics in IE after. Be very careful when making any registry changes.

1) Go to the Start Menu
2) Select Run and type regedit
3) Navigate to the following location

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Main

4) Double click the entry: UseHR in the right window and change the entry from 1 to 0. Close Regedit and graphics will display properly in Internet Explorer

More info:

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_video&message.id=92122

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/highdpi.asp

 

I don't know if this works withthe 9100 but with my old 8000 you can reset screen size by right clicking on the destop and go to properties > settings > advanced > displays then click on the title bar "panel" (on the word itself, not the more obvious button next to it)then check "scale image to panel size".

 

Not an issue for me, but I've heard no scaling is possible because of hardware limitations on the ATI card. So 1200x1050 will never scale to fit the whole screen. If anyone has found a way to do it, pass it along to us all. I personally like the 1920x1200 res myself. With only a couple quirks.

Chris