Questions regarding Laptop Screen Resolutions

have u gone into your display settings and change your resolution settings in their?

 

#2 would require you to replace your display with a lower resolution one.

 

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I am never buying a high resolution screen again. It is nothing but a headache. So many programs the words can not be read because they are so tiny. Aomei programs are the worst. When I do a clean install I have to use a magnifying glass. Never again!

 

Laptop displays tend to not support screen interpolation well (interpolation is the upscaling of lower resolutions to full screen sizes, enlarging everything). Instead, they sometimes use the native screen res and show the low-res application in a tiny rectangle in the center.

Also, the problem with modern class3 and beyond UEFI implementations is, that they lack the INT10 graphics routines of the legacy BIOS. DOS programs utilizing these routines can not switch resolutions or do some other graphic-related things.

There is really no other way than connecting an external monitor and switch to using that for boot. Any half-decent dedicated monitor will internally upscale low resolutions.

 

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I've had success actually unplugging the display from the laptop's motherboard and using an external display. I'm not saying you should do that, and I'm no expert on new hi-rez laptop displays as concerns uefi res overrides, but I don't see why it would upscale the resolution in that case.

 

Please note that my post is especially about the boot to DOS programs. DOS software had to access the hardware directly, and prolly provide the drivers required. In the most basic case, the routines inside the BIOS were enough, accessible through INT10h. Higher resolutions had to use special drivers. The most popular were the Universal VESA BIOS extensions (UNIVBE.EXE).
Newest UEFI have removed the INT10h routines and replaced them with GOP/UGA. DOS programs probably cannot use that, or have to be updated.

However, displays that don't upscale lower resolutions are the plague. Even at the native resolution, text etc. is too tiny for many people. I'm using 100%, but many use 125%, 150% or even higher scales.

Here's an illustration attached. The white is UHD 3840 x 2160 resolution, and the grey rectangle is the pretty standard DOS resolution 640 x 480. That's quite a difference, and shows how tiny would a DOS program be on a UHD display, if it did not scale.

 

For Remote Desktop into legacy OSs, use the Microsoft Remote Desktop Manager that was released many years ago. It still works great and scales the remote desktop (Windows Server 2003, for example) to a very usable size. It is still available from Microsoft's Download Center.

 

I have a 27 inch monitor, running 2560 x 1440, at 125%. This is the primary monitor on my desktop, the secondary being a 24 inch 1920x1080. I have no complaints about this monitor. I did try, temporarily, a 27 inch which runs at 3840 x 2160, and had a number of problems. My original intent was to use it (the 3840 x 2160) on my company notebook in my home office, as I am (like so many others) working from home these days. The company notebook is a Lenovo T470, with Intel 620 graphics. The docking station for the T470 has a Display Port connector, which is required to get 3840x2160 at 60 hz. The best HDMI would do is 3840x2160 at 30 hz. Unless you have HDMI 2.0, which I did not. I got everything working, looked really good, but the notebook became unstable. These Lenovo notebooks are the most stable PC's that I have ever dealt with, partly because the company keeps them locked down, no junk software.

But apparently that high resolution put too much of a strain on the Intel graphics, and the notebook would lock up under heavy use. So I gave up on that, and moved the new monitor over to my personal desktop, replacing the 27 inch, 2560 x 1440 monitor. My motherboard / cpu has Intel 630 graphics built in, good enough, but it does not have a Display Port connector nor HDMI 2.0. Next step, Nvidia GT710 graphics card, which has HDMI 2.0 which will support 3840x2160, if you get the right cable. After trying about 4 cables, I finally got the monitor running at 60 hz. But trying to find the right scale factor was difficult, if not impossible. What was right, looked good for one set of circumstances, was completely wrong under a different set of circumstances.

So the 3840 x 2160 monitor is sitting over in the corner, unused at present. I need to get motivated and run an ad on Craigslist and sell that sucker.

 

I have a feeling I don't understand what you're talking here.
If You know, that the display resolution is a feature or characteristic of display devices that indicates how many pixels the device is capable of displaying. The higher the screen resolution, the more detailed and sharp the displayed image when viewed from the correct distance.
And because it's a physical feature of the display device, you can't change it in any way.
If the resolution of currently used display does not suit you, you can only use another monitors with a lower or higher resolution. That's the thing, what you can do, but cannot change any display resolutoin, it is as it is, it is a display characteristic, that the display has due to its construction.

 

What you are referring to is the native resolution; that one is indeed fixed for non-CRT and everything looks best in this resolution. But, of course you can change the OS resolution. Different monitors/displays will act differently, most will upscale or stretch the lower-res image. Lower-than-native resolution will never look as good as the native one, of course.

 

Coincidently I Just purchased my 1st laptop. The native 1920 x 1080 resolution (win 10 recommended) is uncomfortable for my eyes to say the least. Some times I get so frustrated I want to throw my poor device through no fault of it's own out the window. When I change it say back down to 1024 x 768 or any resolution lower than native the display reduces to a little square it does not scale the whole screen. Cannot find a setting to enlarge it or is it just a limitation of the device? I remember this happening years ago on a desktop pc when upgrading to a new graphic card but I eventually found the setting to make it right. Anyone know of workarounds or point me somewhere to resolve. Or is it for sure limitation. HP is time waster for getting real answers.
Ryzen 7 Radeon Graphics and discreet Nvidia gtx 1660ti tried the 451 456 drivers and MS drivers.
tia for listening. Any thoughts ?

 

you shouldn’t lower the resolution, instead change it back to Full HD and change the scale from 100% to 125% (or even higher, depends on you). You can find that setting by going into the settings, System, Display and there is a point called „Scale and layout“

Re-login to your account to make the changes effective.

 

agreed, sorry I know that already.

Edit: There is a feature update waiting for me as i logged on today to my laptop (10.26.2020)
After reading what was new sounds promising. Cool, may just address the idiosyncrasy's.

The next version of Windows is available with new features and security improvements.
so they say...

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