Has anyone been able to get a Higher resolution on their MacBook Pro 13" I know switcher res x works but have not been able to find a working resolution. Im looking for something slightly larger then 1280x800 1400x900 would be awesome or 1376x8XXX if anyone knows of a resolution that works please let me know.
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Macbook Pro 13" Higher resolution
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are you under the impression that you can just change (increase) your resolution through software?
because that is imposible. you can't magically increase the number of physical pixels in a display unless you're god that it. nothing short of replacing the screen with a higher res one will do that.
THe only way to have a high-resolution screen is to increase the amount of physical pixels on it. How do you do that, you might ask. You do that by replacing the screen with a screen of a higher amount of pixels. As far as I know, these screens do not exist, so you will have to live with your "low-resolution" MacBook Pro.
It was a joke, I think...?
I was asking the OP if he thought he could actually change the amount of pixels on his screen.
I'm not an idiot and I do understand you can not physically increase the number of pixels however using certain drivers under windows you can increase the resolution the default resolution. I was not aware 1280x800 was the native resolution, That answered the question. For everyone with the smarta55
I am currently using an HP VS17e, which is a 4:3 monitor. Its native resolution is 1280 by 1024 but, using nVidia-settings, I can have it run higer resolutions. it can run up to 1920 by 1080. Looks like crap ofcourse, but it does support it.
Maybe thats what the OP means?
Maybe thats what the OP means?
You were not actually running higher resolutions. Everything was being scaled in software before being displayed.
You're not increasing display resolution, that's just a software interpolation. Not possible to do that on MBP.
Does it trick each pixel into splitting into 4 or something? I can't quite wrap my head around how its physically possible.
THe graphics card probably puts a limit on the maximum resolution. What he did is install drivers fro the graphics card that raises the limit.
No the graphics are rendered at a higher resolution then scaled to the native resolution just like when lower resolutions are used. The LCD can only display it's native resolution, it's not like crts.
Basically it's akin to zooming out on an image. It gets smaller, but not all the detail stays there.
Ah, I get it now. I'd imagine the detail loss would make it not very usable though.