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UXGA @ 800x600 - just as good as native?

post #1 of 12
1/22/03 at 5:58pm
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Just wondering if anyone out there has tried this yet. Does your UXGA set at 800x600 look as good as native? I hypothesize that it does, because 800x600 evenly divides into 1600x1200, which means each "pixel" will be exactly 2x2 pixels. Am I right? or just living a pipe dream.
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post #2 of 12
1/22/03 at 6:40pm
look 1/2 as good as native? ;-)
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post #3 of 12
1/22/03 at 7:16pm

I ran

I ran my uxga as such and really dont think so. In its native resolution, it looks perfect. As i also understand why other board pple say to run it at its native resolution.
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post #4 of 12
1/22/03 at 7:39pm
I just found out about Sager a couple days ago after looking at Alienware... so I can't tell you anything about that as it relates to Sager notebooks.

However, my Dell Inspiron 5000e has a UXGA screen. There are two options for it, you can choose to stretch the image to fit the screen or leave it as is.

For example, if I am playing a game like WarCraft III, where I know I can't run it at 1600x1200, I choose not to stretch the screen. Even using 800x600, the image will stretch to fit the 15" screen, and it results in a blurry look to it. All non-1600x1200 resolutions look like that, the smaller it is, the worse it looks, I have found. So, choosing not to stretch will result in the same clarity you get at 1600x1200, but you will get a black "matte" around the picture, like you would put in a picture frame.

So, to actually answer your question... no, setting it at 800x600 and having it stretch does not make it look okay. It will still have a "blurry" look to it. I can't imagine any other UXGA screen being different, but this is just my experience with a 15" UXGA with an ATi Rage 128 16MB (M3).
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post #5 of 12
1/22/03 at 7:50pm
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well, darn... theoretically it should work. I guess it's just a matter of Video Card manufacturers to write drivers that do that.
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post #6 of 12
1/22/03 at 7:57pm

re

my geforce on my dell lappy stunk in anything but 1600 but when i upgraded to the radeon it was a huge difference cause ATI uses panel scaling which roxors for laptops and lcd screens cause it scales the pixels mucho better games in 1024 on the geforcego looked like 640 for example and even 640 looks better with the ati i hope Geforce has this implemented in there next cards
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post #7 of 12
1/23/03 at 1:04am
I think this is a most detailed answer for all questions regarding
native vs non native resolution /as for laptops with ATI M9/
http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1692&p=
The only thing i really don't know is this enabled in "Sager" ?because i ask Clevo and their answer was positive.
Does anybody who currently own any Sager model with ATI M9
use this so called "ZOOM"? /it works by pressing F11 - F12 keys/
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post #8 of 12
1/23/03 at 3:00am
F11 just toggles between normal and full screen mode. F12 doesn do anything
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post #9 of 12
1/23/03 at 10:57am
OK! Then try to open ATI's display properties and check out all options, maybe it is disabled by default and some switches you have to turn on? I dunno but Clevo says "It DOES work"
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post #10 of 12
1/23/03 at 5:03pm

try...

I tried it but to no avail. Prolly doing something wrong...
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post #11 of 12
1/23/03 at 9:25pm
I dont think the Zoom function works. ATI says it's up to the OEM to incorporate it.

If anyone knows for a fact that it works on a 5660, please post.

Thanks.
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post #12 of 12
1/23/03 at 11:32pm

me niether

I dont think it works either...unless im doing something wrong.
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