Bad visuals in Vista

Andybtsn · 6 Feb 2007 at 18:44

My Compaq NC6400 Laptop has always had a very sharp screen and looks very nice in widescreen. Eversince I installed Vista Business the text on webpages (e.g overclockers) looks to have shadows and generally poor quality, the resolutions I can choose from are either 1024x768 or 800x600.
In XP this problem never arose, I have installed the drivers from the HP site for my graphics card designed for Vista.

Any ideas?

OzyOly · 6 Feb 2007 at 18:49

andybtsn said:
My Compaq NC6400 Laptop has always had a very sharp screen and looks very nice in widescreen. Eversince I installed Vista Business the text on webpages (e.g overclockers) looks to have shadows and generally poor quality, the resolutions I can choose from are either 1024x768 or 800x600.
In XP this problem never arose, I have installed the drivers from the HP site for my graphics card designed for Vista.

Any ideas?

Still sounds like your drivers aren't installed right only offering 2 resolutions. It should be set at 1200 x 800 for an average w/s laptop.

Try getting the drivers from the graphics card's manufacutrer's website.

hominid · 6 Feb 2007 at 18:52

Could be that you need to switch ClearType on or off..

Plus either of those might not be the native resolutions of the LCD screen either.

Datamonkey · 6 Feb 2007 at 18:53

2 words mate,

Clear type,

Turn it off under display options, also the same with ie7, clear type is probably enabled on that.

I hate it, some love it.

Andybtsn · 6 Feb 2007 at 18:54

Hmmm, this is strange, I went to my display properties again and then to 'advanced settings', I then clicked on the tab that displayed the name of my GFX, and in there I was able to select 1280x800 and now all looks fine. Why would it not display this in display settings? :confused:

A note for you all I guess then...

Andybtsn · 6 Feb 2007 at 21:24

Also how the hell do you make icons smaller?

There stupidly big.

Tute · 6 Feb 2007 at 21:39

andybtsn said:
Also how the hell do you make icons smaller?

There stupidly big.

Right Click the Desktop.

View > Classic Icons.

Andybtsn · 6 Feb 2007 at 22:30

Cheers matey

Andybtsn · 7 Feb 2007 at 09:16

Another issue.

When using XP I had a 15" TFT as a secondary monitor (screen extented, not clone), I can't run the monitor at 1024x768 which I could before, and if I select my laptop as the primary monitor I have to scroll to the left to get to the 15" where as before I could to scroll the right (the monitor sits to the right of the laptop). I can only run the monitor at 800x600 now which is annoying.