Gaming Problem in getting a wide screen output from my laptop's external

[test84]

Hi,
I have a Toshiba laptop which model is M115-S3094 and has a graphic card of Intel 945 GM Express and has a widescreen monitor at 1280x800 resolution.

The problem is whenever I connect to my Widescreen TV (which as VGA port and its native resolution is 1366x768) via a VGA cable, I can't get widescreen resoloutions out of my laptop's so my output, all it gives me are 4:3 resolutions such as 1024x768 that will stretch on my widescreen tv.

I also got latest graphic drives, didn't help.

any help is appreciated.
tnx.

 

[FAST6191]

Windows XP I see (presumably MCE, not that it matters all that much).

When you say latest drivers did you get them from intel (first step in laptop world is ignore the drivers from the maker and go to the source or use a hacked version thereof, second step is avoid intel graphics).
http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/chi...GM-overview.htm
(not although it says 945 the 950 chip is in there)

If those do not work then have a read of this thread:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/use...ic/54202/page/1
Two options then appear, either you find a BIOS update or you hack the driver (it should be as simple as editing a text file but it might not be).

 

[test84]

thnx FAST,

The first link you provided seemed to me the official Intel drivers, despite the fact that you told me to be beware of them.

The second link has the same problem as mine but with different resolution.

Any other Idea?

 

[test84]

FAST, I still have this problem, any thing else?

 

[Jiggah]

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/C...ect_larger_mode

Also check out that FAQ. If you're trying to use both monitors of different resolutions then it won't work according to that faqs.

 

[Scorpei]

My brother has (if I remember correctly) the same gpu. To output on his full HD tv he has to uncheck hide video modes this screen / gpu (can't remember) cannot display. Then the resolution becomes selectable.

 

[test84]

the place you both guiz are referring to is just for refresh rates, i want 16:9 aspect ratio resolotion.

 

[test84]

I think I have to make a custom EDID for the TV, any one experienced?

 

[test84]

to cope with this problem:
Does anyone know a picture viewing software that can change aspect ratio of the picture it shows? for example when I'm watching movies on my tv via my laptop, I have to change the movie's aspect ratio to 4:3 so it would be played back nice on my stretched 4:3 resolution on my 16:9 tv.

 

[Jiggah]

to cope with this problem:
Does anyone know a picture viewing software that can change aspect ratio of the picture it shows? for example when I'm watching movies on my tv via my laptop, I have to change the movie's aspect ratio to 4:3 so it would be played back nice on my stretched 4:3 resolution on my 16:9 tv.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema. Best media player for videos.

Oh, also if I were you I'd look for an auto calibration on the TV. Most HDTVs I've seen have some sort of auto calibration that needs to be ran when in VGA mode to display the resolution correctly.

 

[test84]

I spent all this evening to fix this problem of getting Widescreen resolution from my laptop.
I currently suspect that I can force GPU or its drive to have this resolution since I got proper frequencies of horizontal and vertical out of my tv's manual.

But I'm lost after that.

 

[test84]

YESSSSSSS
THE FUCKIN PROBLEM SOLVED!


see the link:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/use...4/page/1/#80130




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