Hey, I have been lurking on these boards for a while now, and ordered my Sager 8790 last week. I finally got it yesterday, it's great!
So far I really love it. I ordered the 8790-S with the upgraded 60GB 7200 rpm drive. Its fast as hell and the screen is really beautiful.. has great colors with no dead or hot pixels.
But I have one question, and it seems as if other people have been having a similar problem. To give you some background info, I am running the omega 2.5.44 drivers and have also tried the default drivers that shipped with the laptop. I am using Windows XP pro Sp1.
Whenever I play non widescreen games it is stretched, so of course I looked up and read how to fix all of this by enabling the black bars on the side. My main problem is that I was under the assumption that it would just put the black bars to the side, rather than boxing the image all around and making it rather small (especially in older, lower resolution games: starcraft, d2, etc.)
I have done a few searches and looked all over the place, and realize what I need to fix this is a setting called "expand while maintaining aspect ratio." For whatever reason there is no option to do this in my display properties. I know other people have been having this problem, and I was wondering if anyone actually knew why some laptops have this feature available and why some don't. Are there any registry hacks or .inf driver hacks to enable this feature? Thanks a lot, I have been looking all over the place and really want to resolve this issue. Right now I assume its something in the video Bios that is enabled on certain laptops and others, but I could be completely wrong.
Thanks
Cameron
So far I really love it. I ordered the 8790-S with the upgraded 60GB 7200 rpm drive. Its fast as hell and the screen is really beautiful.. has great colors with no dead or hot pixels.
But I have one question, and it seems as if other people have been having a similar problem. To give you some background info, I am running the omega 2.5.44 drivers and have also tried the default drivers that shipped with the laptop. I am using Windows XP pro Sp1.
Whenever I play non widescreen games it is stretched, so of course I looked up and read how to fix all of this by enabling the black bars on the side. My main problem is that I was under the assumption that it would just put the black bars to the side, rather than boxing the image all around and making it rather small (especially in older, lower resolution games: starcraft, d2, etc.)
I have done a few searches and looked all over the place, and realize what I need to fix this is a setting called "expand while maintaining aspect ratio." For whatever reason there is no option to do this in my display properties. I know other people have been having this problem, and I was wondering if anyone actually knew why some laptops have this feature available and why some don't. Are there any registry hacks or .inf driver hacks to enable this feature? Thanks a lot, I have been looking all over the place and really want to resolve this issue. Right now I assume its something in the video Bios that is enabled on certain laptops and others, but I could be completely wrong.
Thanks
Cameron
I think I'll see if I can contact Omega regarding it, and see if he has any insights into it and if he can add it into his drivers.
