New widescreen laptop, coins look like eggs!

[Hussulo 6]

I just purchased a new widescreen laptop which I'm really pleased with but when I look at coin pictures the coins apear to be oval, more egg shaped! I tried changing the resolution but that didn't help. How am I supposed to crop and tweak images now, quite annoying.

Any suggestions?

[HistoricCoinage 147]

I just purchased a new widescreen laptop which I'm really pleased with but when I look at coin pictures the coins apear to be oval, more egg shaped! I tried changing the resolution but that didn't help. How am I supposed to crop and tweak images now, quite annoying.

Any suggestions?

Try and access your display properties and check your resolution is selected as recommended/optimum/native.

If that doesn't work then try going to Display and then Change Display Settings. It might reveal some options there.

What model laptop and what graphics card do you have?

[Accumulator 52]

I just purchased a new widescreen laptop which I'm really pleased with but when I look at coin pictures the coins apear to be oval, more egg shaped! I tried changing the resolution but that didn't help. How am I supposed to crop and tweak images now, quite annoying.

Any suggestions?

It's definitely a settings issue and not something you should have to live with. I presume it's currently configured for widescreen movies? You need to change the aspect ratio, rather than the resolution, though both are usually linked together. Is it Windows or Mac?

Edited May 7, 2012 by Accumulator

[Hussulo 6]

My screen resolutions available are:

1366 x 768

1360 x 768

1280 x 768

1280 x 720

1024 x 768

800 x 600

I think I've tried them all including 800 x 600, I lost a lot of the sides (went black) but the coins looked even more elongated!

I just bought a Dell Inspiron N5110 it has a very wide screens.

My old trusty Dell latitude d620 used to work great.

This is the spec of my new laptop:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6121&review=dell+inspiron+15r+n5110

I am trying to instal all new drivers to see if that helps.

[Coinery 1,157]

I just purchased a new widescreen laptop which I'm really pleased with but when I look at coin pictures the coins apear to be oval, more egg shaped! I tried changing the resolution but that didn't help. How am I supposed to crop and tweak images now, quite annoying.

Any suggestions?

Don't look at any early-milled until you've got it sorted! ;-)

[HistoricCoinage 147]

Is it just images that appear stretched?

[Nick 329]

My screen resolutions available are:

1366 x 768

1360 x 768

1280 x 768

1280 x 720

1024 x 768

800 x 600

I think I've tried them all including 800 x 600, I lost a lot of the sides (went black) but the coins looked even more elongated!

I just bought a Dell Inspiron N5110 it has a very wide screens.

My old trusty Dell latitude d620 used to work great.

This is the spec of my new laptop:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6121&review=dell+inspiron+15r+n5110

I am trying to instal all new drivers to see if that helps.

1366x768 looks like the one to use. It appears to be the native size of the display and gives the same aspect ratio as full HD (1920x1080).

[Peter 615]

Sunny side up with a blob of mustard please Huss.

[choolie 0]

As accumulater said above, aspect ratio rather than resolution.

[argentumandcoins 70]

You could try just collecting Japanese Bu's Huss. As they are horizontal and viewed standing upright they should stretch and distort into circles?

Sorry mate I'm hopeless on tech stuff.

[Nick 329]

1366x768 looks like the one to use. It appears to be the native size of the display and gives the same aspect ratio as full HD (1920x1080).

Make sure that you have the correct driver for the display (should be downloadable from Dell). Otherwise a generic driver will be used and the resulting image may well be scaled incorrectly.

[Gary 7]

My screen resolutions available are:

1366 x 768

1360 x 768

1280 x 768

1280 x 720

1024 x 768

800 x 600

I think I've tried them all including 800 x 600, I lost a lot of the sides (went black) but the coins looked even more elongated!

I just bought a Dell Inspiron N5110 it has a very wide screens.

My old trusty Dell latitude d620 used to work great.

This is the spec of my new laptop:

http://www.notebookr...piron+15r+n5110

I am trying to instal all new drivers to see if that helps.

1366x768 looks like the one to use. It appears to be the native size of the display and gives the same aspect ratio as full HD (1920x1080).

Wide screen aspect ratio is normally 16:9 so resolution 1366x768 will work. Some screens are 16:10 which would be an aspect ratio of 1366x850 and as that is not an selectable option 1366x768 is the one to use. As this is a new laptop then the drivers should be suitable and do not need to be messed with.

[Hussulo 6]

As this is a new laptop then the drivers should be suitable and do not need to be messed with.

Sorry I should have clarified, it's new to me but in fact its second hand. So I guess my first port of call is to try and install the drivers. Thanks guys I'm on it now and I'll let you know how it goes.

[Peckris 579]

It's a faulty aspect ratio by the sound of it. Remember the good old not so old days when all TVs you saw in public showed s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d pictures because the people using them were too stupid to realise that the Widescreen setting should only be used for programmes transmitted in widescreen?

Not that I'm saying you're stupid!! I've never ever seen this problem on a computer, it sounds like a faulty graphics setting perhaps?