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Reply 20 of 22, by crazii

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I got a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 recently and the BIOS has "Stretch LCD display" option, but the weird thing is, it still has black borders while the images are enlarged. I've no idea why it behaves like that. My games are at 800x600 or 640x480 res, both are 4:3 and the display res is 1024x768 also 4:3. Also the image is literally "stretched" and some texts are not in its original shape, i.e. main menu texts in Red Aler95 configured at 640x480 res. So don't expect too much from Toshiba laptop displays.

Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 - YMF744, Savage IX
Toshiba Satellite 2805-S501 - YMF754, GeForce 2Go
IBM Thinkpad A21p - CS4624, Mobility Radeon 128
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Reply 21 of 22, by Aebtdom

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Old Laptops dont support other than native resolution, its just the way it is.
If you play games full screen it either is on native full screen or with borders.
These things aren't meant for gaming but for office like programs.
This changed around the win98 era.
Some support pixel doubling or bad stretching. But you will keep having borders.
If you really want to resolve this, connect an external more modern vga lcd or crt. If at all possible.

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Reply 22 of 22, by crazii

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Update: Toshiba 2805-S603 is OK. the screen is 100% fit when enabling LCD display stretch. Also it acts like a real CRT, not as Satellite Pro 4300 with stretched bitmap style and text/fonts shape shifted.

Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 - YMF744, Savage IX
Toshiba Satellite 2805-S501 - YMF754, GeForce 2Go
IBM Thinkpad A21p - CS4624, Mobility Radeon 128
main: Intel NUC11PHKi7C Phantom Canyon: i7-1165G7 RTX2060 64G 2T760PSDD