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Coping With Wide-Screen Distortion

JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
edited November 2008 in Games and Technology
I play a lot of old games on my laptop since that's pretty much all it can run, but that means I often have the problem of horribly distorted games due to it being a widescreen. Especially on classics like Populous: The Beginning, which has only the resolutions 640x480 and 800x600 and no concievable way to run windowed (even with the ol' -window trick). Are there tricks you guys use for this kind of thing? Is there some magical application out there that will either force my games to play windowed or somehow magically crop my screen to the required dimensions?

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  • useruser Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    If you have an Nvidia graphics card in your laptop you can enter NVidia Control Panel, select "Change flat panel scaling" and click "use Nvidia scaling with fixed-aspect ratio".

    I believe that ATI offers a similar setting in their control panel, although I don't know the specifics. On the otherhand if you're using an integrated graphics solution from Intel, I'm not sure what you'll need to do to right the problem.

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