How to "un-zoom" non-native resolution screen?

With older ThinkPads, I was able to display lower resolution output on the ThinkPad LCD at a 1:1 pixel ratio, instead of having it stretched/zoomed.
On the W520, I don't seem to be able to do it. And so, the result is that the BIOS boot screen, and Windows boot GUI look rahter "blurry".
Anyone know how I can make the screen smaller again?

Someone was asking a similar question:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-and-Z-series/Y450-Screen-expansion-option/td-p/131647
It's Point 4 under section "Unsatisfactory video display on the ThinkPad LCD display":
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/diagnose-and-fix/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-4YQHUC
How come newer Thinkpads don't have this option?
Some people like the scretched look, some don't (me being in this group). Especially in non-Windows environment, because text/fonts looks REALLY odd when stretched on a 16:9 display.

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So, I'm doing what a lot of folks here are doing right now, (im)patiently waiting for my new quad core 27" iMac to ship. In the meantime, I've been doing some thinking. I intend to game quite a bit on this new system, and I'm concerned about the resolution of the screen. Obviously, even with the HD4850, most games are not going to tolerate the massive resolution required of this huge screen. So obviously, to maintain decent frame rates, I'm going to have to lower the resolution. Now, I don't know much about LCD technology, but what I've heard is that how good the image quality is at non-native resolutions is dependent on the hardware in the LCD panel. From what I've heard, this is an excellent display, with all the latest bells and whistles.
So, my question, for anybody that has experience with this particular screen, or another like it, how does it handle non-native resolutions? Does it look good? Abysmal? Somewhere in between? And, if I'm going to play in a non-native resolution, I suppose my best choices would be 1920x1080 (3/4 res), or 1280x720 (1/2 res). Am I correct in that assumption?
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this, and I hope this makes for some good discussion!

It looks great. I have the 27" dual core which is the same screen. Obviously anything less than 2560x1440 resolution is going to be an interpolated resolution but the screen is extremely high quality and with that kind of pixel density to work with it's easy to make the screen look great.
Is it as tack sharp as native resolution? No, but it still looks great. I've tried 1600x900 and 1920x1200 modes which are the same 16:9 format as the native res and they look stunning even on the desktop. No worries with your gaming. Enjoy!
James

Bad to run screen at a non native resolution?

Hey I'm playin CS in windows and there isn't a 1400x900 resolution for it so i;m just playing 1024x768 in a window. Is it ookay if I make it full screen @ 1024x760?

Under the current OS's (Mac and Windows), displaying at a non-native resolution is "fuzzy" due to pixel interpolation. Leopard will have "resolution independence" - no fuzziness.
Um, actually the fuzziness of non-native resolutions is a physical limitation of how LCD screens work. Leopard's resolution independence refers to something quite different (the ability to scale all UI elements to maintain their size consistently across resolutions).

Non-native resolutions don't scale

I've installed Windows 7 RC on a Dell Latitude D820. There is a place in the BIOS where you define the behavior of the screen when you change to a non-native resolution. By default it should scale the image to take up the entire screen. This laptop has the Mobile Intel 945 Express onboard video. When I change the resolution below the native resolution (1680x1050) it shows in a smaller window and the rest of the screen is black. This also happens if I use a program or play a game that is in a lower resolution. I'm pretty sure this behaved as normal when I had XP installed. There is a FN+F7 key combo that is supposed to scale the picture but it does nothing for me. I've updated the BIOS to A09, updated the driver via device manager where it found an update automatically. I also tried a pre-release driver from Microsoft (8.15.10.1713) but nothing seems to fix this.

what about integrated intel gpus ??? the WDDM driver doesn't have an interface to adjust the scaling pls help i have windows 8.1 i can't install win 7 driver for my gma 4500mhd not even in test mode & stuff
What about it? This thread is not about Intel Opus. And, this is not a Windows 8.1 forum, it's a Windows 7 forum.
Go to Windows 8 IT Pro Category for discussions about Windows 8.1.

Windows 8.1 x64 Bit Black border in non-native resolution

Hello : i have a GMA 4500mhd GPU & i installed windows 8.1 & the default driver was fine all screen resolution havn't got the black borders but after i did the windows update it installed the
WDDM 1.1 driver. after a restart all non-native (under 1366x768) are not scaled to the monitor
.. when i had windows 7 x64 ; the recommended driver 15.17.19.64.2869 was fine
& it comes with it's own interface to adjust the options like performance & quality , scale full screen & stuff but windows 8.1 didn't let me install this driver so help me

Hello YellowMenace，
When you use the default driver, it works normally? After the Windows Update installing the WDDM 1.1 driver, the monitor resolution is changed?
Please share us a screenshot for better analyzation.
Please change the scaling option as MVP S.Sengupta mentioned.
If a new driver for your video card is causing problems, or an incorrect registry setting is preventing Windows from starting correctly, you can restart your computer using Last Known Good Configuration.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-last-known-good-configuration#1TC=windows-7
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support

I have somehow zoomed my screen up to 200%, how do I zoom back to normal screen?

I've zoomed my screen up to 2--%, how do I zoom back to standard size?

It's worth after fixed going to settings,general,accessibility and turning zoom off so it doesn't happen again by accident.

Gaming in non-native resolution @ i3 wm

whenever i exit a game that previously was running in a lower res than native (e.g. Soldier of Fortune with a max res of 1024x768), it lowers my desktop res (presumably to the game's own res) and in order to resolve it i have to call
xrandr --output <device> --mode <res>
each time.
i wonder if anybody had this before, and if so, what did they do about it?
thx in advance!
Last edited by wootsgoinon (2014-08-09 16:33:14)

I've come to just accept that this is what happens when playing some full-screen games in a tiling window manager. It's happened in every window manager I've ever used, and I just reset the resolution when I'm done. I have a script that switches back-and-forth between my laptop display, and my laptop display plus an external monitor; I just run that after I'm done playing.
Try running games in windowed mode and using i3's fullscreen toggle. It's worked for me a couple times, and "fullscreen" games in i3 never grab the mouse and keyboard anyway, if you follow me.

Can Anyone Explain Why Using the Hightest (Native) Resolution is Preferred?

I have an '06 iMac with a 20" screen, my top resolution is 1680 x 1050, but when I try using it, yes I can "fit more on the screen", but the type is tiny, tiny, tiny, (& I can't seem to figure out how to enlarge it outside of my browsers. How do people function with microscopically small type? I have been using 1280 x 800, but am now trying 1344 x 840...
The main issue I think occurs by using the lower resolution is that my message formatting, both via Mail & when posting stuff on line, ends up all skewed, sentences break off where they shouldn't etc., as if there is some default margin that is forcing all my copy to conform to, except when I'm writing it.

Modern monitors have a fixed amount of pixels, in your case, 1680x1050 pixels. If you start sending it a signal in 1280x800 pixels, the monitor itself has to scale it up to 1680x1050 pixels in order to fit it on the screen.
You can't cleanly divide 1680 by 1280, this means that the scaled up pixels won't all be the same size. Some pixels will be wider than others.
Most people (including me) find that using a non-native resolution just looks messy.
I do agree with you that the size of everything on the screen should not be coupled to the resolution you're using on that screen. This would solve a LOT of accessibility problems for people with less than perfect eyesight.
Backwards compatibility with a lot of application frameworks and other technical things I won't get in to makes doing this very difficult (it will work for some applications, but not all, especially not older applications).

Restoring computer monitor's native resolution

Hi all,
In the middle of downloading and installing Windows updates, updating drivers, and restarting the computer, my computer monitor's resolution somehow changed. I believe that the native resolution is 1400x1050, but I can't seem to find that under Display Settings. How do I restore the native resolution?
Please help! Thanks.

what GPU are you using?
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Cisco 1702i WAP: how to get an interface in a non-native bridge group/ VLAN to be recognized by the internal DHCP server

Does anyone know how the internal DHCP server in these access points connects to virtual interfaces and bridges in the unit?
Is there some sort of default connection that connects the DHCP server to the native bridge group or VLAN?
In a test case, with an SSID in the native VLAN and bridge group, the 1702i serves an IP address to a wireless client no problem. But with a second SSID in a non native VLAN and bridge group, no IP gets served. My only guess is that since the bvi1 defaults to the native bridge group and VLAN, sub-interfaces also in this group are assumed to be in the same subnet as bvi1, or in this case:
interface bvi1
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no ip route-cache
exit
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Since the dhcp pool is set as:
ip dhcp pool GeneralWiFi
network 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
lease 1
default-router 192.168.1.1
dns-server 8.8.8.8
exit
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Is the DHCP server just hanging out waiting for a request from an "area" that is assumed to be on the same subnet as the given pool?
Do I need to somehow show the device what subnet the 2nd SSID/ subinterfaces are in so the internal DHCP server can decide it needs to go to work, or is there some sort of bridging between the DHCP server and the interfaces that needs to be done? I am trying to use the same DHCP pool for the second subnet at this point, since I assume I will need another router to service an additional subnet and DHCP pool.

Keep in mind that DHCP is a broadcast packet to start. So the AP can only listen in the subnet that it has an IP address for.
Now, for any other subnet you can use the AP for DHCP but you have to have an IP helper address on your L3 pointing back to the AP.
That being said, I wouldn't use the DHCP server on the AP as it is limited. You'd be better off using a Microsoft server or some other device that is designed for DHCP.
HTH,
Steve

My ipod touch 3rd gen is zoomed in on all screens....how do i unzoom it?

I was having trouble getting my ipod to charge and now it is zoomed in on all screens!! how do i UNzoom it? it just zoomed in all by it self when i went to try to charge it!!

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My ipod has suddenly 'zoomed in' and it won't zoom out. the touch screen does not move properly, and i do not know how to zoom it out

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How can i delete all non native art?

Hello all,
i have a pdf of a relatively complex architectural plan.
I dont have acces to originals and i need to use that plan for some illustaive purposes.
In the plan, I find a s**tload (over 2000) of non native art and they take a lot of cpu juices. This makes the document impossible to work with let alone select and remove every instance of these non native art pieces.
Is there a way to select and remove all of those non native art either with a js script of some other odd technique i shoulmd know about ?
Ffind here : www.finewar.ca/non_native_art.ai a document with a sampling of the kind of non native art i want to be able to select and delete.
Many thanks for your help!

Hello Jacob,
link is fixed, thanks for pointing it out.
This being said, I dont see the Select>Object>Raster Art option or anything similar. I should've mentionned i use AI CS5.1
I did find in the meantime that selecting identical aspect with one item selected works kind of okay but it grab lots of other stuff.
Would love to find a way to delete all those non native gradients in a couple clicks (i never need them and i get them on many plans).

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