Program stretching

[firestronk]

I changed my monitor from a 1440x900p to a 1920x1080p monitor and it seems like all of my programs like google chrome and steam are stretching to fill the screen resulting in everything looking massive and blurry. Is there anyway to fix this?

[Aytex]

Go to your drivers settings

[firestronk]

1 minute ago, Aytex said:

Go to your drivers settings

What do you mean

[Glenwing]

4 minutes ago, PhoenixArising said:

I changed my monitor from a 1440x900p to a 1920x1080p monitor and it seems like all of my programs like google chrome and steam are stretching to fill the screen resulting in everything looking massive and blurry. Is there anyway to fix this?

You changed the aspect ratio from 16:10 to 16:9, things will need to stretch one way or anither to accomplish that.

[firestronk]

Just now, Glenwing said:

You changed the aspect ratio from 16:10 to 16:9, things will need to stretch one way or anither to accomplish that.

I asked others and they said that they did not programs stretch on their pc with a 1080p monitor

[Aytex]

Just now, PhoenixArising said:

I asked others and they said that they did not programs stretch on their pc with a 1080p monitor

What grpahics card do you have?

Amd or Nvidia?

in the driver settings it should show the aspect ratio or how blurry/sharpness things are

[Glenwing]

Just now, PhoenixArising said:

I asked others and they said that they did not programs stretch on their pc with a 1080p monitor

There won't be any stretching if running a 16:9 resolution on a 16:9 monitor, but you're changing from a 16:10 resolution to a 16:9 resolution. Something is going to stretch.

 

What monitor are you using?

[firestronk]

1 minute ago, Glenwing said:

There won't be any stretching if running a 16:9 resolution on a 16:9 monitor, but you're changing from a 16:10 resolution to a 16:9 resolution. Something is going to stretch.

 

What monitor are you using?

It's a spare HDMI tv that I had lying around. Westinghouse LD-2480

[Glenwing]

1 minute ago, PhoenixArising said:

It's a spare HDMI tv that I had lying around. Westinghouse LD-2480

That's a 16:9 display, so you were running a 16:10 resolution (1440x900) on it before. That would have been stretched. What you are running now (1920x1080) is not stretched, what you had before was being stretched the other way.

[firestronk]

Just now, Glenwing said:

That's a 16:9 display, so you were running a 16:10 resolution (1440x900) on it before. That would have been stretched. What you are running now (1920x1080) is not stretched, what you had before was being stretched the other way.

Is there anyway to fix that?

[Glenwing]

4 minutes ago, PhoenixArising said:

Is there anyway to fix that?

Fix what?

[firestronk]

Just now, Glenwing said:

Fix what?

The screen stretch

[Glenwing]

2 minutes ago, PhoenixArising said:

The screen stretch

As I just said, there is no stretching with 1920x1080 on a 16:9 display like yours. What you were running at before (1440x900) would have resulted in stretching in the other direction, you just got used to it, so 1920x1080 without stretching looks stretched to you.

[firestronk]

Just now, Glenwing said:

As I just said, there is no stretching with 1920x1080 on a 16:9 display like yours. What you were running at before (1440x900) would have resulted in stretching in the other direction, you just got used to it, so 1920x1080 without stretching looks stretched to you.

Ah. The 16:9 ratio is a real eye killer tbh