I have a 1280x800 display at the moment... but I need to fool a fullscreen app into running at 1920x1200 or higher (preferably higher), without breaking... is there a way to hack the display driver to run at a resolution above native, and stretch (compress) the higher resolution down to the screen size?
Run an LCD monitor at ABOVE it's native resolution?
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IMO that makes absolutely no sense but i would like to be proved wrong. Your lcd has a set number of pixels which are individual units to display light. Depending on the physical size of the screen the bot pitch (size of individual pixel) will be large or small e.g. My 24" has a smaller dot pitch and more pixels at 1900x1200 then a 103" plasma tv with full HD at 1900x1080.
Therefore if you force an application to use more pixels then the screen actually possess it will appear as though the image has gone off the screen. By upscaling an image at a certain resolution you are at a basic level zooming in with pixels next to each other replicating the same colour. Without specialist applications you will not be able to improve the source resolution of an image without this occuring.
By upscaling the image and then downscaling to physical screen size you are adding two pointless power sapping processes that are not necessary.
As originally stated I would be very intrigued to be proved wrong about this as I can't see why you would wish to do this.
Therefore if you force an application to use more pixels then the screen actually possess it will appear as though the image has gone off the screen. By upscaling an image at a certain resolution you are at a basic level zooming in with pixels next to each other replicating the same colour. Without specialist applications you will not be able to improve the source resolution of an image without this occuring.
By upscaling the image and then downscaling to physical screen size you are adding two pointless power sapping processes that are not necessary.
As originally stated I would be very intrigued to be proved wrong about this as I can't see why you would wish to do this.
(Simulated) higher viewable area (same or lower detail, simulated anti-aliasing by downscaling higher res), higher detail available in screenshots or on remote machines that have larger monitors.
The machine has the power... though I'm not sure if the downscaling is done on the driver or EFI/hardware layer. If it's done on the driver layer, it should be possible to do in the same way the upscaling of lower resolution images is... although I think this model may just center the image rather than scale it.
But basically if I could have a virtual monitor or something, shouldn't it be possible?
The machine has the power... though I'm not sure if the downscaling is done on the driver or EFI/hardware layer. If it's done on the driver layer, it should be possible to do in the same way the upscaling of lower resolution images is... although I think this model may just center the image rather than scale it.
But basically if I could have a virtual monitor or something, shouldn't it be possible?
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some monitors do it automatically... particularly some dells... they will attempt to display ANYTHING you put into them... it might just look like total crap.
For instance, we did a rollout of new machines/laptops at the power company (about 12,000 total) and there was a BIIIG problem with the resolution. GPO dictated that no regular user could even change their own resolution. But the "stock" resolution was way less than the screen, so you got a lot of stretching which made blurry fonts... but the "native" resolution made text nearly microscopic, so some of the older employees complained...
can't ever please everyone...
For instance, we did a rollout of new machines/laptops at the power company (about 12,000 total) and there was a BIIIG problem with the resolution. GPO dictated that no regular user could even change their own resolution. But the "stock" resolution was way less than the screen, so you got a lot of stretching which made blurry fonts... but the "native" resolution made text nearly microscopic, so some of the older employees complained...
can't ever please everyone...
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