Gaming and available resolutions -- help!

johndoe3344 · 07-13-2008, 07:19 PM

I have a 15" laptop running a ATI Radeon x1600 MOBILITY. I recently bought a 22" monitor that I hooked up to the laptop, and switched the 22" LCD to be my primary display. I am able to change the windows resolution to 1680x1050, but any game that I play has only the max resolution of 1280x800 showing up, even though my new monitor is capable of 1680x1050. Anyone know how to make this higher resolution show up?

**Aus_Karlos** · 07-14-2008, 09:19 AM

Make sure you set the game "Aspect Ratio" to 6:10 before you change the resolution.

07-13-2008, 07:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
johndoe3344 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 15 OS: XP SP2	Gaming and available resolutions -- help! I have a 15" laptop running a ATI Radeon x1600 MOBILITY. I recently bought a 22" monitor that I hooked up to the laptop, and switched the 22" LCD to be my primary display. I am able to change the windows resolution to 1680x1050, but any game that I play has only the max resolution of 1280x800 showing up, even though my new monitor is capable of 1680x1050. Anyone know how to make this higher resolution show up?

07-14-2008, 09:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
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