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If I bought a laptop thats 1680x1050 that means

1) I can still change it to lower resolutions just maxs out there
2) If I output it to a monitor thats the highest ress i can do even if the monitor is bigger.

 

(1) Yes
(2) Not sure, I think there is a certain limitation, but I could be wrong.

 

I would advise against lowering the res from your native resolution(in your case WSXGA+) becuase it gets less detailed/blurrier and of course text/objects get bigger the farther you go from the native resolution. Instead of lowering the res you could try increasing the the text/DPI levels

 

Not true! Has to do with divisibility, simply put 12 divided buy 6,4 or 3 works out with no remainder therefor no blurriness or distortion. You can always go lower might get blurry (interloping). On external monitor has absolutely nothing to do with your screen resolution on notebook, never has never will no ifs ands or buts! Has to do with your GPU only! Now if you have a LCD external monitor it's native resolution matters very much, if you have a CRT anything works if GPU supports!

I am posting something I wrote for another because it applies.



The problem is your laptop or any LCD screen has a native resolution (CRT'S don't) so when you change resolutions you force a square peg thru a round hole with full screen. But for example with UXGA 1600X1200 you won't have a problem playing at 800X600, your pixels will double up. If you force display to play a non native/non even division as stated it has to find places to display the pixels where there are none or too many. Forces the display to Interlope and this can cause visual distortions or artifacts, stretching compressing. Will this be acceptable? Depends, Some hard core gamers would prefer to play on a CRT simply better display even if they are being phased out (marketing not engineering) So a lot has to do with you and even which game. I would dare say some people play different games at different resolutions. I had a SXGA+ and I liked it very much, very crisp in Windows type apps, I played games at different resolutions and did not sweat it. What is your screen size because as you increase things get smaller and if you are not blind yet you may get there faster. SXGA+ is kind of an odd size If you go XGA 1024X768 that is kinda the default for games, you increase effects and features to the max if it can handle it, and if it does then you'll still get better frame rates than at higher resolution. With UXGA you can play at 800X600 with no bad effects if your card cant handle 1600X1200 also the interloping may not be so bad at 1024X768 because it is lower resolution. Never play a game above your native resolution. Also if you don't need full screen your video card can display partial screen especially if you get the higher resolution system and the card can't game that high.

 

Wow, I'm a gamer and now I'm so glad I got the 1280x800 (anti-glare) screen for my new notebook after reading baddogboxer's post.

I have my resolution set at 1024x768 on my desktop right now, on a 15-16" screen. So it shouldn't look that much different when I have 1280x800 on a 15.4" widescreen right?

 

Maybe clipped on the side? Please remember I tried to express external monitor has no effect on native resolution of notebook. So certainly what I said has nothing to do with seperate system! But Yea!