LCD Monitor Resolution Problem

[GearGeek]

Hey guys. I've got a problem, hopefully you can help me out. I just bought two 19 inch widescreen LCD monitors. The resolution is 1440 x 900. Since these are my first LCD monitors, I was not aware that you have to keep them in their native resolution for best results.

They look great but somethings are just too small. Like all my plugins in Nuendo for instance. I've played around with the DPI size in Windows and have gotten all my drop down menus and fonts to a nice size, but certain things remain small.

The only thing I can do is lower the resolution size but then it looks all blurry. Am I missing something? Is there something else I can do? Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated.

[DSD_Mastering]

If you have an nVIDIA card, they have a program called nView (or something like that) that will allow custom resolutions, over/under scaling and such. You might want to give that a try. I don't know what ATI has on their side.

nVIEW

Regards,
Bruce

[zemlin]

Image quality will suffer at any resolution other than the native screen res. If you want bigger, buy a bigger screen with a lower DPI spec. It's the nature of LCDs - either that or go to the drug store and buy some reading glasses.

[theblue1]

Yep... afraid they're pretty well right...

When you change the resolution of a CRT, it actually changes the number of pixels on the screen. (The electron gun is refocused, essentially.)

But that can't be done with an LCD.

So any change of screen resolution means a remapping of pixels to pixel relationships. If you've spent any time with bitmap graphics programs, you probably realize that that's going to give you less than optimum results. (Uh... as you've found.)


As you seem to have found out, you can change some Windows screen fonts but that's pretty much limited to the explorer... so if you use the "large fonts" (or largest, for that matter) size it will put BIG ol fonts in the task bar and on the title bar of your Explorer (and app) windows -- but inside the apps, unless the app lets you control the font size, I do believe you're pretty well out of luck without, perhaps, going to special software, which I suspect will STILL be remapping pixels.


Now... one of the supposed "benefits" of Vista is that the "deluxe, full" version (read big and bloated) has a rescaling graphics engine and -- I would imagine that that should mean you could finally have some display flexibilty -- but, honest to gosh, the way things are going with computing today, I wouldn't be surprised if THAT was wishful thinking, too.

[GearGeek]

I was afraid you guys were going to say that.

Oh well, I guess I have to live with it. Thanks for the replies!

[statikcat]

You will get used to it and appreciate the extra screen space.