Guest Samukami Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 Hello, When I bought my Samsung R70 laptop, it had windows vista pre-installed, and I can't quite remember if I had this same issue back then, but i'm somewhat sure I did. Anyway, a while I ago I chose to downgrade to XP again for performance reasons, as the game I play (Final Fantasy XI) sucked under the vista drivers (I didn't know about laptopvideo2go's custom forceware drivers back then) would have a horrible frame rate and lag like hell, but was nice and smooth under XP. Due to a reformat I had to perform on the XP side, I made the decision to go back to Vista, which I've decided, I don't want to go back to XP again, installing it and downgrading was too much bother to do again. And upon downloading new Forceware drivers from laptopvideo2go, my lag was gone so now I'm even more willing to stay with vista. So I'll get to the problem at hand... Basically a perk I got in XP was, when my game was maximized in a windowed mode, it would give a nice anti-alias style blur effect do it, almost removing any pixellation that might have been caused by the stretch. This was awesome. And on Vista, every time I do this, it goes pixellated, which looks so ugly and does not seem to have this effect that XP does. So I'm wanting to know, I've researched this problem pretty hard, and it seems pretty unresolved, and I'm not even sure it's down to the drivers themselves. But has anyone also had this problem (or fixed it)? I noticed in Vista it also pixelates when viewing and zooming in on a photo in the Vista Picture Viewer, which is odd, and quite hideous too....I'm willing to accept this might not be fixable...but if you know anything, please help. If anyone wants, i can show you can example of what happens. So, are there any drivers that resolve this issue, and what would be the best drivers with the best performance rating for the Samsung R70 with GeForce 8400M GS, on vista??? If you could help me out here, i'd be really grateful, Thank you for your time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 please show a sample, i don't understand what you mean by pixelated when maximized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 please show a sample Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samukami Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 (edited) Ok i'm good and registered now :) Another note is, as you'll see from the screenshot, my mate is using a Dell XPS laptop with a Geforce 7400 GO on Vista, and has this blur effect. :\ ^^^^ Scrap that, he has the same problem as me :) So this happens when I maximize a game, or zoom into a image using the image viewer... Edit: Uploaded image of what I mean. Please view them in full size to see what I mean. Edited November 26, 2008 by Samukami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 is that a magnified picture viewed in image viewer? in vista, it does that, i know, it is lame. but can you show an example for a game with maximized and windowed one, causei can't really tell what the difference you are trying to make Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurin Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 If I can be honest here, I think it sounds a lot like running the game in low resolution and then resizing the window thus stretching the image. As when I play any game in windowed mode in Windows Vista Ultimate I have no such pixxelation problems. If you want the window to be bigger, can't you simply set the resolution to a higher level ? Or will the game run slow on your machine then ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samukami Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 (edited) Yes that was a photo of how Vista zooms in image, as you will see, it gives a similar effect in game. I mean, in relation to the zooming in the image viewer, I wouldn't mind if it zoomed in an accurate display of pixels, but it doesn't, its all over the place and ugly. Basically, on XP, if I set the game to 640x480 and maximized it, it'd still look half decent with the blurred effect. In vista, it's pixellated in my picture. The problem is, it's hard to obtain a screenshot of the game under XP as I don't have it, nor want to install it, I'll try to get someone to take a screen for me if nobody can wrap there head around it! Edited November 27, 2008 by Samukami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 that looks like the picture has been stretched, you want to find your video settings(within the game) and set it to 1280x800 making it the same pixel ratio as your desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samukami Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 (edited) Ah you see, thats what I want it to do. I want to be able to maximize the window, without it pixellating so much. When I maximize the window under windows XP I don't get that pixellated effect, and the same with zooming in, in picture viewer. Also, what are the best Forceware drivers released for 8400 GS in my Samsung R70?? Edited November 27, 2008 by Samukami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 you should try the older driver, I suggest 16x.xx series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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