Running a program in a different resolution

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In the future, I may give my 19 inch LCD Dell 1907 monitor to my mother, who uses a Dell 2400 running XP Home SP2. The native resolution for this monitor is 1280x1024. There is one problem, though. She loves to play the PartyPoker game, and on her current monitor, the resolution is set at 800x600. If I gave her the 1907 monitor with the default resolution, the PartyPoker graphics would be much too small, plus reading the text would require a magnifying glass. I have looked at the PartyPoker settings, and do not see any options to enlarge the text or graphics. Is there a way a single program can be configured to run at 800x600, while the rest of the computer runs at 1280x1024? If I right-click on a desktop icon, choose Properties, Compatibility, there is the option to run at 640x480. But that is too small.

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Lawnmowerguy wrote:
In the future, I may give my 19 inch LCD Dell 1907 monitor to my mother, who uses a Dell 2400 running XP Home SP2. The native resolution for this monitor is 1280x1024. There is one problem, though. She loves to play the PartyPoker game, and on her current monitor, the resolution is set at 800x600. If I gave her the 1907 monitor with the default resolution, the PartyPoker graphics would be much too small, plus reading the text would require a magnifying glass. I have looked at the PartyPoker settings, and do not see any options to enlarge the text or graphics. Is there a way a single program can be configured to run at 800x600, while the rest of the computer runs at 1280x1024? If I right-click on a desktop icon, choose Properties, Compatibility, there is the option to run at 640x480. But that is too small.

Using 1280x1024 the fonts, and program will be smaller for some, but if you change that to 640x480 it will not be smaller but much bigger, as in larger fonts and pictures. Better still you can play with the resolutions, lets say 800x600 and that will be lower than the native, but the game will look bigger, even 1024x768. As you go down, the with the resolutions, every things gets bigger on the screen not smaller.... Some do not like the lower resolutions because it may not give a good viewing experience while others like it. Your mother just may like 1024x768 or better 800x600 resolutions

Try it out now and you will see the screen getting bigger not smaller when you go down the resolutions scale

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Running a program in a different resolution

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