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17" and World of Warcraft?

post #1 of 10
8/13/06 at 11:48pm
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I've been playing WoW for some time now on my LGLw70 Express that has a gfx-card with 128mb on it. And ofc that leads to that i must have some lower settings in games. But when i try out lower than 1680x? (widescreen) the middle of the screen gets placed to the right and nothing really works good.

Anyone have any idea why? -.-
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post #2 of 10
8/14/06 at 2:48am
You have a picture that you can post here? Do you mean that the right half of the screen is cut off? Or that everything is visible but just shifted?

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zakaluka2.
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post #3 of 10
8/14/06 at 9:37am
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It's like the 1/4 of the screen to the right is not showing, you know like when you have 2 screens. And also, my fonts get very blurry. Dunno if that's something with my ui-scale?

Anyways, I would post a screenie, but when i take a screenshot and paste it into a program, it looks like it's no fault, cause the 1/4 of the screen comes with on the ScreenShot ^_^
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post #4 of 10
8/14/06 at 11:33am
It's called Native Resolution. It messes up at anything different. You could try playing it in a window.
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post #5 of 10
8/14/06 at 11:55am
I had the same problem on my last laptop. As mentioned in the last post, try running it in a window. That worked for me.
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post #6 of 10
8/14/06 at 12:35pm
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Doesn't work. When i change to 1280x? etc and has it in windowd mode+maximized it looks exactly the same as my previous resolution.

This is making me crazy -.-
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post #7 of 10
8/14/06 at 4:47pm
It sounds as if your settings are messed up. When you are resizing, it seems that the video is set to create a "virtual" screen that is bigger than the actual screen. Try the following for me please:

While not in the game, resize the desktop to 1280x1024 (or whatever you are using in the game). Is the whole desktop still visible? If you move your mouse to the edge of the missing area, does the screen shift to include that area now? If so, it means that the virtual screen is bigger than the actual screen. You should be able to fix that by going to Control Panel -> Display -> Settings.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #8 of 10
8/14/06 at 9:51pm
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zakaluka, thx alot for the tips, tbh I really believed they were going to work. But they didn't.

As you said, when i change resolution in windows (regardless on what resolution since i've tried em all), I can "scroll" to see the right parts of the desktop because it doesn't show it all.

I've tried all sorts of combinations in the settings on the GFX but nothing seems to help :/..

You think it could be something about that my laptop is locked to only work in one resolution? Sounds idiotic to me, since I know kinda many ppl that want to have lower/higher resolution than 1680x.
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post #9 of 10
8/14/06 at 10:41pm
Unfortunately, I don't own any recent ATi GPUs (the latest I have is a Rage IIc from 199x). But, I have 2 suggestions:

1. Go into the BIOS and see if there is an option that influences the virtual desktop. I know that on the e1705, the BIOS lets me pick whether I want smaller resolutions to be stretched on the screen or put into a small box in the center, surrounded by black margins.

2. Upon reading online, it seems that the Hydravision utility from ATi is supposed to help with scrolling/panning. nVidia builds this functionality into their drivers, which is what I have used in the past to deal with these kinds of problems. Try downloading it from http://www.ati.com/products/Hydravision/index.html and see if it helps.

EDIT: 3. Check out ATiTool. It seems to have a lot of options, one of which is hopefully what you want.

Best of luck,

zakaluka2.
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post #10 of 10
8/14/06 at 11:07pm
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have solved the problem now, will update tmw when i have more time

I _really_ appreciate your help, thx alot
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