Re: Apect ratio and wide screen mode

Jürgen Exner wrote:
Don Stauffer <stauffer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Don Stauffer <stauffer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently upgraded to a new computer. It has a wide-screen monitor, and I am running in wide screen mode. My desktop, and most software works fine, but I have a few graphics programs including Photoshop Elements, that are badly distorted. Is there some sort of setting I need to make in Elements to tell it I am in a wide screen mode?
The native res of the screen is 1400 x 900. Unfortunately the graphics card does not have a 1400 x 900. The closest I found is 1440 x 1024.

Well, there you got your reason.

In that setting the desktop looks okay, circles are just about circles, etc. The only thing that is way off are my image/graphics applications.

Obvious solution: get a new graphic card that supports the the monitors
resolution. Nothing else will fix the problem.

Other workaround: check the manual if there is a way to change the
native resolution of the monitor to a value that is supported by your
graphic card. Not many monitors have this feature and of course you
won't take full advantage of the new monitor by running it at a lower
resolution.

jue

But this monitor was sold with this computer as a package deal.

I found one problem in that according to the monitor instructions, I should find an option in the graphics card settings to set a mode to "wide screen," but I can find no such option. Possibly if this option were set I would find the correct aspect ratio in the "resolution" setting.

I will be contacting Gateway (both computer and monitor are Gateway) to get this resolved.
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