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GilbertsGrape
04-23-2003, 08:12 PM
i have a Gateway laptop with Composit Video out it has a S3 Video card running Win XP pro. and i need to lower the resolition to 640 x 480 and as low as i can make it go in XP is 800 x 600 when i had 98 this wasnt a problem but this higher resolution cuts off my screen.

Grape
ceeka
04-24-2003, 02:28 AM
Try going to http://www.s3graphics.com/index.html to see if you have the latest drivers available.
LPMiller
04-24-2003, 04:45 AM
Originally posted by GilbertsGrape
i have a Gateway laptop with Composit Video out it has a S3 Video card running Win XP pro. and i need to lower the resolition to 640 x 480 and as low as i can make it go in XP is 800 x 600 when i had 98 this wasnt a problem but this higher resolution cuts off my screen.

Grape

I dunno about yours, but on my laptop, my S3 graphics ONLY output to TV at 800x600.
Jcranmer
04-24-2003, 06:16 AM
Originally posted by LPMiller


I dunno about yours, but on my laptop, my S3 graphics ONLY output to TV at 800x600.

Same way my Dell is. 800x600 is as low as I can go BOTH on tv out and the LCD.
GilbertsGrape
04-24-2003, 07:10 AM
when i had 98 on this laptop it would do 640 x 480 now i have XP on it and it will only go down ot 800x600 and my screen gets cut off now which is a hinderance now. any way to make it look better on screen?
GilbertsGrape
04-25-2003, 06:16 PM
ok moved back to 98 on POS Gateway Solo 5300 laptop. so i could bump resolution back to 640 x 480.

have new dell on the way with S-video Tv out will i have this same probelm of the screen not fitting on the TV and loosing the Top 1" or so of the screen and 3" l-r Side scrolling movenemt. Or is the Dell vid card better and will it work on my TV wuth Win XP
ceeka
04-26-2003, 03:03 AM
If it has an ATi graphics chip it shouldn't be a problem. They have always been known for good TV out. It may even output at 1024x768 but you usually can't read any text because a TV is too blurry.
GilbertsGrape
04-26-2003, 05:13 AM
the vid card will either be

64MB DDR NVIDIA_ GeForce4 MX™ Graphics Card with TV-Out

128mb DDR ATI Radeon™ 9700 TX Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI

and i think it is the later of the two.
GilbertsGrape
04-26-2003, 05:15 AM
this box will be for powerpoint and multimedia presentations