Yeah Scott. It works great for me also. It just makes everything else on my computer microscopic. If it means that my screen size has to change for everything else I can't do it. RW1 works great with the resolution I have now.
Such a bummer..........
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by randy » Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:18 am
Hi Coul10,
Text and icons shouldn't be microscopic if you set your 19" monitor to 1024 x 768. What resolution do you currently have your display set to? There are lots of adjustments for text size, etc, and it sounds like those settings might have already been adjusted in a way that's causing problems when you switch resolutions.
Text and icons shouldn't be microscopic if you set your 19" monitor to 1024 x 768. What resolution do you currently have your display set to? There are lots of adjustments for text size, etc, and it sounds like those settings might have already been adjusted in a way that's causing problems when you switch resolutions.
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by ShredRex » Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:47 pm
Hey Bill Randy is right 1-24X768 should be fine for a 19" monitor.......with that RW almost fills my screen. Now if you were at something like 1600X1200 I could see where you would be having a hard time seeing things....LOL
Hope you get this all worked out!
Hope you get this all worked out!
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by randy » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:04 pm
Coul10 wrote:Hey Randy.
Maybe you could help me out when you get a chance. I want to start colabing with my boyz here!
Thanks!
No problem Bill!
There are a few ways of getting to the display settings. Here's one good way:
1) Click on the START menu
2) Click on CONTROL PANEL
3) Double-click on the DISPLAY icon
4) Click on the SETTINGS tab
Now you can see what your screen resolution is currently set to, and you should be able to move the slider up to 1024 x 768. However, once you do that you might need to use the controls on your monitor to make the image probably fit in your monitor's available screen area. I can't really walk you through that part, as every monitor has unique controls that differ from the next.
Cheers,
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squwak!by mickeymix » Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:22 pm
I saw Ace play like that twice in Florida ...right next to stage right ....... saw the techies giving him drinks and guitars .....truly wasted was our beloved Ace !!! But he STILL played his ASS off.......amazing show. I still don't know how the hell he did it!
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by zerolight » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:51 pm
The odd thing is that most monitors that are 19" support 1280x1024. Infact, if it's a 19" LCD, then it's native resolution will almost certainly be 1280x1024 and running at anything less than that has a detrimental affect on image quality due to scaling artifacts. LCDs are meant to be used at one resolution, their native one, the highest available.
If riffworks isn't fitting on your screen then you must currently be running at 800x600 or less, which is insanely low for a 19" monitor to be running. It may be that you have just got used to the massive text and so on, but you really ought to be running it at 1280x1024 and getting used to the smaller text.
You can increase the size of the windows just by dragging them bigger at the corners and you can increase the size of the text by going to the Appearance tab in your Win XP display properties and changing the font size from normal to large.
To my eyes, that looks plain wrong though. A 19" monitor looks correct, and has a nice amount of real estate at 1280x1024, and a 15" monitor looks about right at 1024x768. I run a 24" widescreen monitor at 1900x1080. The idea behind a larger monitor is not that it gives you the same real estate, only larger... it's that it gives you more real estate with the text the same size as it was on the smaller monitor. In other words, you should expect the text on your screen to appear the same size regardless of whether you are working on a 12", 15", 17", or 19" monitor - just that with the extra resolution the larger monitor provides, the more space you have to work.
On my screen I can run Riffworks and Gearbox side by side rather than having to tab between them. That's the advantage of a larger screen.
If riffworks isn't fitting on your screen then you must currently be running at 800x600 or less, which is insanely low for a 19" monitor to be running. It may be that you have just got used to the massive text and so on, but you really ought to be running it at 1280x1024 and getting used to the smaller text.
You can increase the size of the windows just by dragging them bigger at the corners and you can increase the size of the text by going to the Appearance tab in your Win XP display properties and changing the font size from normal to large.
To my eyes, that looks plain wrong though. A 19" monitor looks correct, and has a nice amount of real estate at 1280x1024, and a 15" monitor looks about right at 1024x768. I run a 24" widescreen monitor at 1900x1080. The idea behind a larger monitor is not that it gives you the same real estate, only larger... it's that it gives you more real estate with the text the same size as it was on the smaller monitor. In other words, you should expect the text on your screen to appear the same size regardless of whether you are working on a 12", 15", 17", or 19" monitor - just that with the extra resolution the larger monitor provides, the more space you have to work.
On my screen I can run Riffworks and Gearbox side by side rather than having to tab between them. That's the advantage of a larger screen.
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