Highbass21

Originally Posted by awdark

Maybe Dell would be really nice to us people with good eyes and put an extra thing in the control panel... "Resolution" and let us switch from Qvga to VGA (maybe even with HI_RES_AWARE style exclusions) similar to the way there is a Screen Rotation control panel app. Can hope cant I?

And not to have to soft reset between modes. :approve:

blutrane

Originally Posted by Keitherlyn

Sounds like WM5 isnt that big of an improvement over 2003 vga wise. The only program i really want to run in VGA is PIE. With the other ones, QVGA is fine. Is there a way to get PIE only to run in VGA? I have been reading these fourms for about 5 months and dont recall seeing anything about it. anyone here know anything?

it already runs in vga

running it with se_vga or oz_vga will not make it run at a higher resolution nor can you run it in a lower resolution

running it in se_vga will however make the menus and stuff smaller thats it

Keitherlyn

i know about the vga hack. i ment have PIE run in vga (640x480), but have everything else run in qvga.

im_dragon

Originally Posted by stevodude

... I for one think it's just another scam from Microsoft. ...

It's not a scam. WM5 info and screenshots are all over the net, so no one should be surprised. Two major improvements that sold me:

- Better memory management.
- PowerPoint support

Enhanced Excel and Word don't hurt either. I hope there will be a browser that supports true VGA display in what's currently known as SEVGA mode.

blutrane

Originally Posted by im_dragon

I hope there will be a browser that supports true VGA display in what's currently known as SEVGA mode.

pocket IE is rendered in VGA already by default

im_dragon

blutrane,

PIE is a "VGA application" only by name. It does pixel-doubling in SEVGA. I wished it could at least be like Pocket Streets, where I could at least get some true VGA in SEVGA mode running Force Hires.

Unfortunately, the people who created PIE must not be PPC power users. It seems they have never used or seen a VGA PPC before. I am writing this out of frustration with Microsoft.