Cheat Engine

Honda

Can someone tell me how do you make your screen resolution smaller when playing anykind of games?
cause when I was at my friend's house, he has Vista and everytime he plays a game, his laptop screen goes black and the game will appear in the middle of the screen.
I try messing with my setting, but that didn't work.
Here's an example:

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject:

called scaling from 16:10 to 4:3 but not stretching the image.

Honda · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject:

and how would I do that?

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:36 pm Post subject:

I think it is built into the driver code or the way the monitor supports that certain resolution and jsut emulates it

Honda · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject:

aww fuck, that's gay then
I really want that screen resolution Confused

Guy · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:50 am Post subject:

Check the BIOS, there's usually an option for enabling stretching.

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:29 pm Post subject:

Actually there isnt Majii, BIOS is for the controlling of the hard ware funtionallity to a very basic, it cant realyl controll your gpu's way and your monitor way of scaling and emulation that format of your screen.

Madman · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject:

BIOSes have evolved since the beginning of computers saf, in fact the last laptop I was repairing had that exact option.

Usually the game controls the resolution it is being played at, check the game settings.

Honda · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject:

Nope, I already messed with the game setting and it still doesn't work.

Guy · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:50 pm Post subject:

Honda · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

I don't know where to go on my bios to scale it Sad

P.S: I got Asus P6T Deluxe Motherboard

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject:

But look hes on a desktop :]

Honda · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I'm on a desktop
So there's nothing I can do to change my gaming scale? Crying or Very sad

Guy · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject:

kls85 · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject:

This has nothing to with the games nor your desktop, but more towards your monitor.

There are 2 types of LCD monitors, standard and wide screen.

On a standard monitor setting your game to any resolution and it will look fine. Although running on a low resolution like 640x480 will make it look big, but at least it's still a image in its proper aspect ratio.

Do the same thing on a widescreen monitor and you'll get a different story.
Widescreen monitors tend to force the resolution your using (Let say a game) to fit the whole screen thus making the image distorted and stretch out.

1:1 pixel mapping is what your looking for as it renders a image pixel by pixel.

e.g. Let's say you have a 22" wide screen with a resolution of 1680x1050.
The game want to play does not support widescreen resolutions and the maximum is 1280x1024. Without 1:1 pixel mapping and your game is stretched out.
With 1:1 pixel mapping and you will have the image display at 1280x1024 with a black border surrounding the image. More like the example picture you provided.

Note that not all widescreen have 1:1 pixel mapping and even though some do, manufactures rarely says it in their specs.
Some LCD (standard screen) also have 1:1 pixel mapping as well.

1:1 pixel mapping is extremely important to have if your planning to hook up your game console.