New monitor stretching video display horizontally

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pschroeter
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New monitor stretching video display horizontally

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I recently replaced an old CRT monitor with a new LCD monitor. The new monitor is wide screen, as every monitor I looked at was. Now everything shown on screen is stretched side to side by 30%. Is there a way to correct this? I thought the video drivers would recognize the situation automatically, but rats, it hasn't. Its an older computer running XP, but dang it the monitor box said it worked with XP and the only other solution I could think of is buying a used monitor.
I tried fiddling with the screen resolution and one of them actually made things square again but then the fonts look awful.
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Re: New monitor stretching video display horizontally

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Most LCD monitors have a 16x9 (or 16x10) aspect ratio... 23" and above tend to be 1920x1080 (the same as HD TVs)... 20-22" ones are usually 1600x900. You should set the resolution in Windows to match the native resolution of the LCD monitor for the best results... of course your video hardware and drivers have to support this.
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