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Paladin Knight

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Hi, everyone. I'm having a problem with using emulators on this Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop here. I was trying to play the SNES emulator ZSNES and the picture is really, really small like the size of a GBA screen or somethin'. I noticed from looking at the different forums on here that this site seems to be much more geared towards emulators for newer systems like Nintendo 64 and stuff like that, but that shouldn't really matter because this is a problem caused by some settings on the laptop that I don't know how to change, I think. I mean, it's not just in the emulators that things are displayed smaller than normal. Everything on this computer is displayed in a more compact form than you'd see normally on computers. It's actually a good thing for it to be like this when viewing Web pages and whatnot 'cause you can see more of the pages than you could with the way it normally is on other computers, but I think it's this setting that's also making the emulator screen way too small. I know that the display of the games on emulators like ZSNES already doesn't cover the whole screen on other computers anyway, and I would assume that that's how it is even with the emulators for newer systems too, although I don't know for sure. Anyway, I've tried changing all the emulator's settings, but it doesn't help, and I've also tried going to the control panel in Windows XP and changing the display settings to different resolutions and whatnot, but that doesn't help at all either. I can't seem to make the display on this laptop be like the display that all the other computers I've used commonly use.

But anyway, if anyone wouldn't mind to please help me fix this problem, I would really appreciate it. ....I...guess that's all. ...Bye for now, everyone, and thank you very much in advance if anyone does help me with this.
 
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revl8er

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go into the video options, and then change the resolution to the desired one, usually the one of the desktop if you dont know much about that. When selecting one, make sure you choose a full screen resolution.
 
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Paladin Knight

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I already tried that...

Well, like I said, I already tried doing that, and in fact I tried every single other video mode there is on that emulator, but that still doesn't allow me to fix this problem. The best I can do by changing to different video settings within the emulator is that I can get the picture a little bigger, but it's still showing a lot smaller than it does on every other computer I've ever used this very same version of this same emulator on, and if I make the emulator's display screen too big by changing to a different video mode within the emulator that has a higher resolution, then it slows the speed of the emulator down by a lot, making it run a lot slower than this same emulator does on every other computer I've ever used it on, even ones that have less RAM and are much slower computers.

But like I said, this does not seem to be a problem with the emulator itself since this very same version of this emulator works just fine on other computers. I think what this has to be is some display setting on this particular computer, but I don't know what it is or how to change it. Like I said, I've tried going to the control panel and the display settings in Windows XP and trying all the available settings there, but nothing changes this computer's display to the way all other computers I've ever used have their display. For example, when this computer is booting up, the thing that says, "Windows XP." during boot up is smaller than it normally would be and takes up less room in the middle of the screen than it normally does, leaving a lot more space around it than you normally would see.

I know this is some setting that you can do that helps to see more of Web pages at one time by compacting what's on the screen. I know 'cause I heard someone mention this before and said that that's how he has his computer set up, but I don't know how to change it back to the way computers normally are.

....If anyone knows how to fix this, please help. :-(
 
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