For the past couple of days, nvidia has been giving me annoying prompts saying that my screen resolution could be better if I would just change it to 1280x800. The only problem is that it already is set at that resolution.

Does anyone wtf is up?

anderoo

Canada1876 Posts

August 02 2009 15:26 GMT

My monitor has a "Resolution Optimization" button that fixes that, maybe you've got something similar?

statix

United States1760 Posts

August 02 2009 15:28 GMT

Hmmm...I'm on a laptop.

Chuiu

3470 Posts

August 02 2009 15:39 GMT

I'm guessing right click on button, find place to disable feature, ??????, profit!

micronesia

United States24799 Posts

August 02 2009 16:03 GMT

Wow how do you keep your desktop so clutter free cali!?

I assume you've already tried setting it to a lower resolution then back up to the max one? I also assume you've rebooted at least once?

statix

United States1760 Posts

August 02 2009 16:08 GMT

On August 03 2009 01:03 micronesia wrote:
Wow how do you keep your desktop so clutter free cali!?

I assume you've already tried setting it to a lower resolution then back up to the max one? I also assume you've rebooted at least once?

Yes to both your questions.

I hate having anything on my desktop. The only things I ever really have on it are recent downloads. I use the quick launch bar for programs I regularly use and the built-in search function in the vista start menu takes care of the rest.

statix

United States1760 Posts

August 02 2009 16:14 GMT

On August 03 2009 00:39 Chuiu wrote:
I'm guessing right click on button, find place to disable feature, ??????, profit!

Oh and that didn't work either.

anderoo

Canada1876 Posts

August 02 2009 16:54 GMT

did you et your graphics card for maintain aspect resolution to play a game?

statix

United States1760 Posts

August 02 2009 17:16 GMT

On August 03 2009 01:54 anderoo wrote:
did you et your graphics card for maintain aspect resolution to play a game?

No, I don't even see that option anywhere. O.O

Could you tell me how to do this or if it's even available with my graphics card?

anderoo

Canada1876 Posts

August 02 2009 17:25 GMT

#10

open up control panel, open up your graphics driver, click display settings, click on maintain aspect ratio.

if you have it off and you cloes SC or another full screen program that doesn't use the same res as your desktop the comp is probably staying at that resolution despite your res being set to full in your personalize menu.

dhe95

United States1213 Posts

August 02 2009 17:49 GMT

#11

I get that too. But IMO it's because you were playing starcraft, which is played at 640x480 resolution, and when you quit, it reverts back to 1280x800, but the message is meant to show when it changes to 640x480 but since it's a full screen game the message can't show, so Windows waits until it exits full screen mode in which it'll automatically revert back to 1280x800.

Chuiu

3470 Posts

August 02 2009 17:57 GMT

#12

On August 03 2009 01:14 statix wrote:

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Oh and that didn't work either.

Well then, let me google that for you.