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T61 lower screen resolution changes, blurry
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:38 pm
by excel03
Windows XP SP3
All updates done
Intel core 2 duo T9300
nVidia card
3gb ram
When I go in the display settings and I change the screen resolution to lower then 1440x900, the screen is blurry. I can see everything as usual, but more blurry. When I put it back to 1440x900, everything is sharp and nice again..
Is this normal?
Alex
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:41 pm
by excel03
BTW it's a 7226CTO (model)
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:16 pm
by DesertSilver
That is normal for an LCD screen. The LCD screen has a specific amount of pixels (native resolution) and it has to take those set pixels to display more or less than it's made to do.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:30 pm
by Kyocera
That's normal and it sucks. Best looking at native resolution.
thanks
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:32 am
by excel03
thanks for answering! It kinda sucks cause it's hard on my eyes, but what can u do about it.
Seeya
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:51 am
by mybellyisempty
change the default font size to something larger, for one.
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:45 pm
by jdhurst
Therein lies one thing Vista can do fairly well. I lowered the resolution of my T61p from native from 1400x1050 to 1280x1024, raised fonts from 96dpi to 120dpi and use the built-in nVidia scaling. The result is very, very, very acceptable (not perfect, but entirely workable). ... JDH
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:17 pm
by sktn77a
Cleartype is turned off by default in XP. Go to the desktop >display properties>appearance>effects>cleartype and turn it on. Should make the world of difference at non-native resolutions!