How can I increase screen resolution

[Sultan]

using a software?
my laptop only goes to 1024x768
any ideas?

 

[The Green Bean]

you can't because thats the maximum amount of pixels your laptop LCD has.

 

[Sultan]

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
you can't because thats the maximum amount of pixels your laptop LCD has.

there must be a way
im gonna check out with the CS gurus

 

[AznAnarchy99]

neg, u cant go over what your lcd supports

 

[Inappropriate4AT]

The best you can do is apply a higher resolution through drivers, but then you have to scroll the desktop, so it's pretty much pointless. Only 1024x768 pixels can be on-screen at a time.

 

[Fardringle]

Picture this as an example of what you are trying to do:
"My beer mug only holds a pint, can you fix it so it will hold a quart? I don't care if it physically can only handle a pint, there has to be a way to make it hold more."


If your LCD physically only has 1024x768 pixels, there is no way to make it show more pixels than that at the same time. As the previous poster said, you can make Windows create a 'desktop' with a higher resolution, but you will have to scroll around to view the different parts of the desktop since the physical screen will still only show 1024x768 pixels at any one time.

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: Sultan

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
you can't because thats the maximum amount of pixels your laptop LCD has.

there must be a way
im gonna check out with the CS gurus

well, guess what. there isnt.

 

[karioskasra]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Picture this as an example of what you are trying to do:
"My beer mug only holds a pint, can you fix it so it will hold a quart? I don't care if it physically can only handle a pint, there has to be a way to make it hold more."

Simple. Compress the beer.

 

[biostud]

With a razorblade and a ruler you should be able to divide the pixels in quarters so you can increase the resolution by a factor 4. I must warn you that this is not covered by the warranty of the laptop.

 

[Cheesetogo]

You can probably interpolate up with some software. Also if you go into display properties and unistall the monitor, it will let you select a higher resoulution. I don't reccomend this though, but it could work. I've done it by accident before with my lcd, and I have no idea how it works.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: Sultan

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
you can't because thats the maximum amount of pixels your laptop LCD has.

there must be a way

lol

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Just shrink everything on the desktop. Fonts etc. That way it looks like you are at 1280 X 1024 because you are squinting to see everything.

 

[Nextman916]

are you being serious?

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

Maybe if you play some pr0n and Barry White, the pixels will start breeding...

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
You can probably interpolate up with some software. Also if you go into display properties and unistall the monitor, it will let you select a higher resoulution. I don't reccomend this though, but it could work. I've done it by accident before with my lcd, and I have no idea how it works.

That does exactly what people above have said: when you set a resolution higher than your LCD screen supports, then it only displays as many pixels as the screen can, and you have to scroll when you get to the edges of the desktop. There is no way to 'interpolate up' extra resolution on an LCD!

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: karioskasra

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Picture this as an example of what you are trying to do:
"My beer mug only holds a pint, can you fix it so it will hold a quart? I don't care if it physically can only handle a pint, there has to be a way to make it hold more."

Simple. Compress the beer.

you cant compress a full fluid when its already in that state in atmopsheric pressure. u can compress it when its a gas.

 

[Doctorweir]

Originally posted by: biostud
With a razorblade and a ruler you should be able to divide the pixels in quarters so you can increase the resolution by a factor 4. I must warn you that this is not covered by the warranty of the laptop.

ROFLAMO :laugh:

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
That does exactly what people above have said: when you set a resolution higher than your LCD screen supports, then it only displays as many pixels as the screen can, and you have to scroll when you get to the edges of the desktop. There is no way to 'interpolate up' extra resolution on an LCD!

Surely there has to be a way? Plenty of TVs do it, LCD or otherwise.

 

[edplayer]

thats interpolating down

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
That does exactly what people above have said: when you set a resolution higher than your LCD screen supports, then it only displays as many pixels as the screen can, and you have to scroll when you get to the edges of the desktop. There is no way to 'interpolate up' extra resolution on an LCD!

Surely there has to be a way? Plenty of TVs do it, LCD or otherwise.

Yup, as edplayer said, it's actually interpolating down on TV's.

I'm not 100% sure how most LCD-TV's work, but I think most are actually 720p native, and downconvert a 1080i signal if necessary.

On your laptop, if the screen is a 1024X768 screen, then that's what it supports at maximum.

If you want a higher resolution, maybe it has an external VGA/DVI cable so you can hook up an external screen. Otherwise you're stuck with 1024X768.

 

[kylebisme]

Semantics aside, it is running input at a resolution higher than the number of pixels on the screen like Sultan is looking to do.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Why can't you display a higher resoulution by interpolating up? On CRTs, sometimes at higher resoulutions, they cannot display all the pixels, but they are still at a higher res. By the way, when I increased the resoulution on my lcd, I didn't have to scroll around the desktop. Everthing actually got smaller, so it was somehow displaying a higher res. The max res was 12x10, but I somehow got it to 16x12.

 

[Sultan]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
Why can't you display a higher resoulution by interpolating up? On CRTs, sometimes at higher resoulutions, they cannot display all the pixels, but they are still at a higher res. By the way, when I increased the resoulution on my lcd, I didn't have to scroll around the desktop. Everthing actually got smaller, so it was somehow displaying a higher res. The max res was 12x10, but I somehow got it to 16x12.

how???

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
Why can't you display a higher resoulution by interpolating up? On CRTs, sometimes at higher resoulutions, they cannot display all the pixels, but they are still at a higher res. By the way, when I increased the resoulution on my lcd, I didn't have to scroll around the desktop. Everthing actually got smaller, so it was somehow displaying a higher res. The max res was 12x10, but I somehow got it to 16x12.

The max res isn't 12x10, it's 16x12. 12x10 is the recommended resolution. It is indeed displaying all the pixels.
CRTs are different from LCDs because they don't use physical pixels, but three electron guns for each of the primary colors to paint the picture onto the screen. The max resolution of a CRT thus depends on the maximum horizontal scan rate. It can run on any resolution as long as it's within the max horizontal scan rate. For example, if the max horizontal scan rate is at 96KHz, then your max resolution is 2048x1536 @ 60Hz. If it's 85KHz, then the max resolution is 1600x1200.

LCDs are different since it's physically made out of little dots of light, each dot being a pixel. This is why LCDs can only use one resolution. It can imitate a lower resolution, but not a higher one. If you still don't believe me, you can try it yourself. If you go to display properties -> advanced settings -> monitor tab -> uncheck the box that's labeled "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display".
Now you can set a higher resolution.
If you're using an ATI card, you'll have to do a bit more to get it to work. You'll have to go to the ATI control panel, then go to monitor, and uncheck use DDC settings, and then manually set the max resolution and refresh rate of your monitor to a higher setting.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0


LCDs are different since it's physically made out of little dots of light, each dot being a pixel. This is why LCDs can only use one resolution. It can imitate a lower resolution, but not a higher one. If you still don't believe me, you can try it yourself. If you go to display properties -> advanced settings -> monitor tab -> uncheck the box that's labeled "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display".
Now you can set a higher resolution.

I did try it, and it did display the higher res. The maximum resoulution was not 16x12, it was 12x10. It was a 19" lcd.