TGB Vista widescreen Laptop Display Error
by Dustin Vandenberg · in Hardware Issues · 12/28/2008 (9:18 pm) · 6 replies
Hi, I have a laptop with a widescreen monitor running Windows Vista. When TGB is running using OpenGL, the whole thing seems about 10 pixels above where it should be, and when I click, it is clicking about 10 pixels above where my mouse is (screenshot):
[IMG]http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/7056/screenshot1ge7.jpg[/IMG]
(http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1ge7.jpg)
So, I tried setting it to D3D. If i keep it at the size is start at (640 x 480 I think) it looks & works fine, but if I resize it it gets really bad.
Fullscreen:
[IMG]http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/5647/screenshot2tx2.th.jpg[/IMG]
(http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot2tx2.jpg)
Decreasing it's size:
[IMG]http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/2697/screenshot3ke0.jpg[/IMG]
(http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot3ke0.jpg)
I've searched around the forums for an answer, but I haven't found a real solution. I'm hoping someone else had this problem and knows how to fix it. I really want to get TGB, but if it isn't going to work right on my laptop, it wouldn't be worth it. thanks in advance!
(I wasn't sure if the imageshack pictures would work, so I included links below)
[IMG]http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/7056/screenshot1ge7.jpg[/IMG]
(http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1ge7.jpg)
So, I tried setting it to D3D. If i keep it at the size is start at (640 x 480 I think) it looks & works fine, but if I resize it it gets really bad.
Fullscreen:
[IMG]http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/5647/screenshot2tx2.th.jpg[/IMG]
(http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot2tx2.jpg)
Decreasing it's size:
[IMG]http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/2697/screenshot3ke0.jpg[/IMG]
(http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot3ke0.jpg)
I've searched around the forums for an answer, but I haven't found a real solution. I'm hoping someone else had this problem and knows how to fix it. I really want to get TGB, but if it isn't going to work right on my laptop, it wouldn't be worth it. thanks in advance!
(I wasn't sure if the imageshack pictures would work, so I included links below)
#2
07/15/2009 (12:34 pm)
I have the exact same issue! One easy way to fix this is to change to a 4:3 screen resolution... but that's not really a fix since everything looks squished or stretched on a 16:10 monitor.
#3
07/15/2009 (12:37 pm)
Urmmm, no, scratch that, I think I was mistaken! 
#4
07/15/2009 (1:00 pm)
I've personally never experienced this, but the issue has popped up several times here in the forums. Appears to be generally a Vista and sometimes ATI related issue. Disabling Aero seems to fix this for some users. 
#5
Please post back and let me know if switching to classic mode resolves that problem.
07/16/2009 (1:43 am)
Try switching your desktop theme to "Classic mode". This should fix the problem. This apparently doesn't happen on nVidia based cards, just ATI. I am guessing it is driver related, but I don't have any information as to a specific driver version that does not have this issue.Please post back and let me know if switching to classic mode resolves that problem.
Torque Owner Kayrel Parcen Vandal
I would gladly love to know how to fix this... hard to work on the game like that. Using another computer and for some magical reason everything is fine.