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edit: Sorry I just looked at my title and that's pretty gay.
So this seems like a fairly basic thing. I was using my sister's laptop and it was a miraculous experience. When browsing TL I could view the whole page (horizontally across) without having a scroll bar at the bottom like I have now on the computer I always use. I would say that 1/5 of the page is not viewable unless i scroll over. The font on her laptop while doing this was also very readable. I also think the vertical space was larger as well.
The only way I have managed to see the whole page (and it's other websites too, not just TL) is by setting resolution to 1024x768 instead of 800x600 but when I do that the font is absolutely tiny.
I'm sure this is something simple but after about an hour or so of google I haven't been able to figure out how to get the ideal settings.
So how can I get my computer to the bliss that is my sister's laptop. I mean my monitor is bigger than her laptop screen so it must be possible but I've googled it to no solution.
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1024x768, ctrl+mouse3down (scrolldown) = font bigger = problem fixed?
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ahhhhhh, that's nice.... Thanks for the info, I feel like that's something I should've known but I'd never heard of.
I guess I'll pose another question. Now that I have the 1024x768 I read that I should up the refresh rate. Right now it is at 60Hz and when I try to make it any higher it moves the 1024x768 back to 800x600, or if I set the refresh rate really high to just play around it sets it to 640x480.
I don't really know how important that is but I wonder why it wont' let me increase the rate because in my searching earlier people made 60Hz seem like stone age slow.
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I think that means that your monitor can't handle any refresh rates higher than 60hz, and if it can, it has to be on 800x600 to handle 60+ hz, and even lower to handle the max ones. how old is your monitor?
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On the back is says it's a Dell made in June 2000, so I guess that would be the reason. I don't think it really matters because I don't see what the problem with 60Hz is. Some guys in forums I was looking at said that you should have at least 75Hz for 1024x768 but maybe they were just makin' stuff up.
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Holy shit that's older than the computer I'm using now -_-
But best solution is to increase resolution, framerate.
Or you can just get a bigger monitor
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If It's LCD, I don't think the refresh rate would matter. I think response time is more important for an LCD monitor.
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