Monitor settings help please, my screen is blurry

alison74

Hi, can someone please tell me what settings my monitor should be on / screen resolution.

I have a 19 inch monitor and at 1152 / 864 it's a bit blurry, so I thought increasing it would help to 1280 x 960 but it looks even worse now.

Would appreciate any advice or a point in the right direction if it's got nothing to do with the screen resolution settings !

Thanks in advance

Inactive

Check your monitor menu, if it has an " Auto " button, try that.

Belnahua

1280 x 1024 sounds a better resolution? Unless it's widescreen is it?

john_s_2

If it's a flatscreen then these will only display a sharp picture at their 'native' resolution. 19" monitors tend to be either 1280x1024 (5:4 aspect ratio) or 1440x900 (8:5 or 16:10 aspect ratio - widescreen). I would hedge a bet that you have a widescreen monitor as these seem to be the standard these days, and is indeed what I use.

1152x864 is a 4:3 aspect ratio (the same ratio as old fashioned tellies and older monitors) so as well as being fuzzy your picture probably looked a bit stretched? 1280x960 is also 4:3.

It's a jungle out there! ;-)

Arlen

Look out for cleartype in the Display Properties -> Appearance -> Effects menu, this can cause letters to blur and colours to be off. Change this to be unticked and all is better. As others have said though unless you have a widescreen monitor your resolution should be any of 800*600, 1024*768 or 1280*1024. As john s says TFTs only show best at their native resolution.

espresso

Most likely resolution for your 19" monitor is 1280 x 1024.

alison74

Got it sorted now, thank you

Incisor

alison74 wrote: »

Got it sorted now, thank you

What did you do?

buglawton

Ditto question

alison74

I switched it to 1280 x 1024, it prompted me to restart which I did, it looked ok, but screen was wonky and then pressed auto button which straightened it all up again

Thanks