I hate the way my new Inspiron 9300 Display Looks!! HELP PLEASE

[IndieMatty]

It's either too stretched out, or way too small (icons/text) I'm not well versed in this. I really need help. Dell customer support is really frustrating. I am 90% sure that this is a setting or something and not a hardware issue.

The biggest problem, is I cannt maximize any poker rooms screen. Depending on my settings they only take up a certain portion of the screen. I just want to view in full screen.

Is this possible?

I'll reply to this with the setup of my machine.

Thank You for any help you guys can offer.

-Matt


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[mmbt0ne]

Right Click -> Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> DPI = 96

[IndieMatty]

That's what I have done, what should my resolution be? No matter what settings I have I cannot maximize the screen. I see "DUAL MONITOR" in my display options, but it says "2" is not active; is this an issue?. I'm getting pissed!

Thanks for the help.

[mikeyvegas]

What is your screen resolution set at? If you want to four table to it should be set at 1900 x 1200.

[IndieMatty]

Thanks Mike, I set it to 1024 X 760 for noe. Right now I just want to play one full table, on one full screen?

I cant adjust any window sizes on the poker tables.

[mmbt0ne]

Can you normally? I've never been able to resize a Party/PS/Prima/UB table.

[mason55]

You can't change the size of the pokerroom windows, so there's really no way to get it full screen unless you change your resolution to 800x600

[IndieMatty]

Yeah! I can on my old PC (Windows Me) so thats it? The screens are these sizes and you can't change them (w/o changing the resolution?)

[IndieMatty]

Oh [censored] that sucks. Thank you. I'm really used to seeing the full screen.

[mmbt0ne]

They're 800x600 all the time for me. Maybe it's something to do with XP vs. ME.

[BusterStacks]

Did you get it working? Your display should be set to 1920 x 1200.

[IndieMatty]

It works...I guess. Thanks for inquiring. I dont like not being able to just re-size my tables. You can't maximize them. But I guess that only worked on Windows ME.

One more thing, if I didn't play poker. What should my display be? When I'm surfing I go in 96 dpi, and 1024 X760. Thats close to what I am used to.

[bd8802]

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One more thing, if I didn't play poker. What should my display be? When I'm surfing I go in 96 dpi, and 1024 X760. Thats close to what I am used to.

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An LCD has a fixed set of pixels and can only show smaller resolutions by blacking out part of the screen or by spreading out the low resolution pixels and creating other pixels in-between (which can be blurry).

I never change the resolution of my Dell 8600. I just changed it for the first time and it looks like crap, it was really blurry (because of the reason stated above).

I would just set your resolution to 1900x1200 and keep it there. Change the text size on your browser and font size if you need the size to be larger.

/bd