Is my screen too big for my GPU?

[martin5454]

My new monitor arrived yesterday and am using it with my laptop, my laptop screen is broken so its a must not a luxury. I have been trying to use it to watch films yet I keep having issues. Am pretty sure its because the graphics card in the laptop is a Radeon mobility x1300 (128) but was hoping someone could have some tips to improve playback. I have no CPU usage issue and when I tried to benchmark my x1300 it just crashed.

The monitor is 22" 1920 x 1080

I suspected the card might have issue with a HD screen but the movies am watch are like 700mb - 1G

If anyone has any tips would be brilliant and If its just a case of the graphics card being too pecker please let my know and save me time installing drivers etc

 

[martin5454]

The issue seems to have solved its self, sorry I cant give any more information than that. I tried today and it worked fine. VLC seems to work better than WMP but the only difference is the laptop was turned off all night. Maybe because I was playing deus ex 2 just before I tried to watch a film? Maybe the GPU was just too hot?