Widescreen LCD Suckiness

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FuNKieJuNK2

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I just picked up the Samsung 215TW... My first LCD and first widescreen monitor... So I'm a bit newbish to all this...

But its like everything I do in Windows (ie not playing a game) just gets stretched to fit the widescreen. So I have to set it to 4:3 aspect ratio to make it look normal. Any drivers/fixes to get Windows to run in widescreen?

The monitor also looks a bit blurry to me. Like the text doesn't look as crisp as it did on my CRT. Not sure if it's just because I haven't had much time to mess with my settings yet, or if I should expect that going from CRT to LCD...

Any thoughts?
 
Right-click on your desktop, choose Properties.

Go to the "Settings" tab and select a resolution of 1680x1050. That should help a lot!

I also suggest you use the DVI cable instead of VGA.

If you had a VGA (D-Sub) monitor and you didn't reboot your computer, this resolution may not appera in your list of resolutions. If this is the case simply reboot your computer.

J
 
Also go to control panel > display > appearance > effects > enable "cleartype"
This will make text easier to read. You may have already done this but a lot of people with their first lcd don't know about it..
 
joemama said:
Also go to control panel > display > appearance > effects > enable "cleartype"
This will make text easier to read. You may have already done this but a lot of people with their first lcd don't know about it..
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But the shadow it produces is awful. I'd rather use the standard type. Maybe there is a way to turn down the shadow that I didn't know about.
 
You may want to either get the monitor driver from the Samsung website, or go to display properties > settings > advanced > monitor > and decheck the "hide resolutions this monitor cannot display." Windows my not recognize your monitor as a widescreen, and therefore isnt giving you the widescreen resolutions under the basic desktop settings.
 
reference to drivers .. went to microsofts update page.. they had a driver for the 215tw thats 2.0 instead of the 1.0 on samsungs site .. Im using them right now and they seem to work quite well.. a first for the microsofttt site
 
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