W510 800x600 resolution Panel Fitting

linusg
linusg Member Posts: 8 New User
I'm mostly happy with my W510 purchase, but the low resolution legacy programs I want to run on it is driving me slightly insane. Currently it adds black panels around and centers the 800x600 size program. Now, this would have been fine if I could click on the black area to register some form of action, like space or left click. But even though the program is really simple and would work with a tablet, the distance to stretch my fingers from the edge to the centered 800x600 program is unbearable. I've looked into this, and there exists a CTRL+ALT+F11 command to remove the panels. Except it does nothing, so I figure either the drivers are missing basic functionality (I got them updated to latest version from around the 10th Dec), or the tablet is somewhere refusing to accept this functionality. When I also open Intels manager for the graphics, I only have the panel fitting option to choose from for how it should handle smaller resolutions. What I'd like to know, is how, if, or when you support stretching small resolutions over the screen. Because it seems to me like stretching small resolutions is basic functionality. For the moment though, I've figured out that if I turn my tablet to the 786 width and use windowed mode, it almost gives me a full screen effect on 800x600 resolutions. The problem is that the other half of the screen just displays the desktop.

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  • HK53T
    HK53T Member Posts: 767 Die Hard WiFi Icon

    You're still runing 800x600 legacy programs ... you cannot expect that they will be fullscreen on the large displays today, can you?  Yes, they are in a black border becayuse they do not fill the scren anymore!

     

    Sounds liek you solution with the 786 width is probably as good as you can do with that OS?

  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    Something does not sound right. When I run a legacy program it opens a window on the desktop that uses as much space as needed but leaves my background image. Are you trying to run as an app or from the desktop ? (When I touch a legacy app it switches to desktop on mine. Have you set the desktop colors/background (control panel>personalization>desktop background) ?

  • linusg
    linusg Member Posts: 8 New User
    I did a forum search to see that I the answer to my question hadn't be solved already. But since I only found my own thread with the open question, I decided to throw in my post here. Even though this could theoretically be called a necropost and I should have made a brand new duplicate. Forum ethics is sometimes so confusing. Anyhow. My mother recently got an ASUS tablet/PC hybrid so I finally got my chance at testing where the error lies. I installed same program on both machines, and then tested it out. 1. Both my ACER and her ASUS machines added black panels when requesting full screen. 2. CTRL + ALT + F11 however changed this on the ASUS (One of the transformers I believe) by first removing all black areas over and under, second press made the sides removed as well, and I had my full screen 800x600 legacy game. But doing the same on the ACER (Iconia W510), the CTRL + ALT + F11 key does nothing. 3. There seemed to be some bug on ASUS that made the 800x600 resolution stay afterwards and it displayed the windows desktop in a centered 800x600 window with black bars around. This could be solved by setting up the resolution again. So now that I had confirmed Windows 8 is not the issue, all that remains is blaming graphics cards or drivers. An interesting part is that the ASUS could display fullscreen 800x600, but it did not have a resolution option for 800x600 in the resolution list. (Maybe it supports it but finds it to be so old nobody would choose it and hides it) Some further info on how I'm doing it, since Padgett asked in the past. I set my old program to "full screen" and run it from either desktop or from the "start screen" where you can add links. In all cases it goes to the desktop and then goes into the fake fullscreen mode where it just fills the sides with black, instead of "stretching" or "changing resolution". I could of course (and I do) run it as windowed and have my desktop background behind. It is mostly about how I'd like it to work, and how I've now found competition to work. Anyway, it would be interesting to know if my problem is buying an ACER product and I should avoid them in the future, or if I simply got the wrong hardware specs for what I wish to do with the Tablet. (Perhaps it is just the screen / graphics card that has these limitations and another ACER would have fulfilled my expectations) I don't know if any ACER employees check by these forums, but it would have been interesting to hear how it is. Might have to call them up sometime, but this doesn't seem like the most obvious topic for someone to answer over phone. I was looking for their e-mail support, but sadly couldn't find it.
  • tri0xinn
    tri0xinn Member Posts: 10 New User

    yeah it's a bit annoying.. I run older 90's games that won't stretch to full screen. I have 2 other pc's that do the same thing.. but in the intel settings theres a "keep aspect ratio" or something that will stretch them to full screen. I'm gonna start a new post

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