widescreen

So when I had Visa, all my Mkv, avi files played widescreen. Black bards on bottom and top. Yeah..you know. I liked it. But now when I have windows 7, each of my players play my videos full screen, like a square box that stretches when I go full screen. I use VLC or Media player classic. I...

Hi, I just installed Win7, I have a 22" widescreen monitor, the native resolution is 1680x1050, which makes things WAY too small to comfortably use the computer. When I try reducing the resolution, everything, especially text, gets quite blurry. My video card is a GeForce 8500GT and the...

I just upgraded my computer to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, and now I'm having a problem with Windows DVD maker that I didn't have with Vista. Whenever I burn a dvd with the DVD maker, and the finished product is never what I intended. The menu comes out fine, but when I play the video on...

I have just "upgraded" from XP to WIndows 7 and my last remaining issue is the fact that I cannot get widescreen wallpaper to span both of my monitors. Instead the wallpaper is repeated for each screen - even though the same wallpaper sapnned both monitors in XP. I tried all of the Stretch...

hi all, i recently installed windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, anyways im happy iwht the new os, its alot faster than vista which is good obviously. but i installed a game runs fine works fine but instead of opening up in full widescreen mode it opens up with 2, 2 inch black lines down both sides of my...

EA Games/DICE have released a new Link Removed - Invalid URL for Battlefield 2. The patch contains a large amount of new content, gameplay tweaks and bug fixes. Most significantly, the patch includes: improved Vista support, proper widescreen support, a new map called Operation Blue Pearl, the...

Hi. My laptop is running the W7 RC without any problems, EXCEPT normally in general use, my monitor is in full screen mode, no problems what so ever. If I try run say Flight Simulator 2004, the program changes its res automatically to 800x600 to fill the screen. and back to 1440x900 for...

Hy .. i have a problem with the windows 7 .. i instaled " Windows.7.Ultimate.Build.7127.Retail.x86 " i have a problem with the dislay .. i have a monitor widescreen on 1360*768 pixels .. on windows 7 i can't stay only on 1024*768 pixels .. i have a nVidia Geforce4 MX 4400 Gigabite ... and i...

Hey, i have a problem with my resolution in my games. Currently the games show in a square, where they should fit to a widescreen. How do i fix this problem?

Normally my game would be widescreen. But with windows 7 the sides are black and the game is not in widescreen. I downloaded the new 64bit driver from the nvdia website the 185 drivers. But i still have the same problem it did not help :( Is there anyway to fix this?

Im having a little problem i installed windows 7 64bit (build 7100) to see if a game gaurd game would work. And magically it did...But i have a widescreen monitor and before the game ran in widescreen but with windows 7 its not widescreen. The sides of the screen go black as if my monitor is not...

I've just installed my copy of Windows 7 RC and I can't seem to change the resolution to a widescreen (16:10) one. I'm using an ATI Radeon X1650 Pro PCI-E which the standard driver from Beta worked in allowing me to change to a widescreen resolution. Now it doesn't want to give me the option...

I am new to windows 7 so there may be an obvious soultion to this problem that i have not found. My screen resolution keeps defaulting to 720X480 when i reboot my computer. I have the computer plugged into my tv as i am using w7 mediacenter software. The mediacenter is connected to tv the by...

Hi. I installed windows 7 last night on a laptop that had XP on it. It installed just fne with just a few problems. I managed to get audio and wireless working again but having big problems with graphics. It is a widescreen laptop with 1280x800 Intel 910GM/915GML driver, However, I cannot...

so this ma first try with windows 7 and it looks cool and even lighter cooler than Vista . i have the build 7068 and i installed Need For Speed undercover and wen i ran it and this 1st time told me that some d3d file is missing so i pick the dxweb upadte and updated it to the last update and...

I'm a great Warcraft3 player. And I usually run it on my notebook with widescreen (1440x900). War3 "doesnt know" this resolution, so, running Win Vista, the picture was simply stretched. Now I use Win 7. And this OS is too clever, so I see something like this: Link Removed I don't like this...

Hey, In windows vista I used to be able to select more wide screen resolutions. For my desktop its not really a big deal, run at 1900x1200 at all times. But in games it stinks because the 1440x900 and 1650x1080 resolutions are no longer options in windows 7... maybe it is just the driver? I...

Hi Everyone, Has anyone successfully installed Windows 7 on a Dell Lattitude D800 with a Nvidia Geforce4 4200 card? Install of Windows 7 works fine with the standard VGA drivers but whenever I try and install the XP 4200 drivers from the Dell website, it causes these two things: The windows...

My PC use widescreen, ATI X550 display card and Intel 945PE chipset, but sometimes gadget cannot disply well, however gadget display well in my thinkpad X60, anyone could help me?

Im running Windows Vista Starter RC2 Build 5744 and when I full screen my widescreen videos in Windows Media Player, instead of the top and bottom bars being black in widescreen, they are green. I looked in preferences and tryed different colour options but it seemed none of them worked. Is...