9 posts tagged with display and resolution (View popular tags)

Optimal web browsing with a high resolution (1920x1200) display? [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2008 - 12 answers

Why is Fallout 2 displaying so.. small? [laptop, Windows XP] [more inside]
posted on Oct 4, 2007 - 11 answers

Why does my computer (Linux, Gnome) suddenly think my screen is 3 feet wide? How can I convince it otherwise? [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2007 - 10 answers

Help me clear up my misconception about display resolution: I always understood it that on the same 15" screen that if you went to a higher resolution, it would pack more pixels into that same 15" space. But resolution appears to be length of number of pixels x width of number of pixels. So is a 1080 hdtv always going to be bigger than a 720 hdtv? What am I missing?
posted on Oct 20, 2006 - 11 answers

How do I fix my display resolution? Warning: This is not as simple a question as it appears to be. [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2006 - 5 answers

I have a 1024x768 resolution. When I run programs which are native to 800x600, instead of stretching to fit the whole screen, they show in 1024x768, but in a small box in the middle of my screen with a huge black border. The same thing happens when I manually change my resolution to 800x600 - resolution stays the same, but the viewable area shrinks, leaving a small rectangle in the middle and a large blank space around it. How can I fix this? [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2006 - 8 answers

A question for a friend: How can one improve the display resolution on an iMac beyond the options in the System Preferences? (My friend is a writer, and she needs the on-screen fonts to be sharp and clear and easy on the eyes.) [more inside]
posted on Jan 5, 2006 - 12 answers

2 to 3 times a day my work computer locks up and i get a pop-up message: "The s3sav4 display driver has stopped working normally. [Save & reboot]" My screen drops down to a 640 x 480 display with almost no color. I reboot and everything is fine again (for a few hours). The cheap bastards here are not going to buy me a new computer. Is it a hardware or software issue -- any clues as to the nature of the problem and if there anything I can do or download to fix it?
posted on Nov 3, 2005 - 11 answers

Just curious: why is 72dpi the standard resolution for the internets? [more inside]
posted on Apr 8, 2005 - 31 answers