Re: Once again this site disappointed me...
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his pc can only support not more than 1024x768, he added.
Desktop resolution limitations are only a factor if (1) the monitor you are using does not natively support any higher and Windows has "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display" checked, (2) you do not have VGA drivers installed and are running Windows in "VGA Mode," (3) you do not have a VGA, which would either come as a video card, onboard, or both.
Sounds to me like he never installed his video accelerator drivers and the CPU is doing all the work. My previous system, having an AMD Athlon XP 1.4 GHz and also 512 MB of RAM, but with video accelerators installed, could handle HD movies of the same resolution just fine.
It doesn't matter what system you have -- if you don't have any video accelerator drivers installed, the CPU is going to be doing 100% of the work rendering things. When you first install Windows without any video drivers automatically installed, you open up a window and grab it by the header and try to move it around the screen quickly, it will chug and not be smooth.
If you do not have a video accelerator, let alone the drivers that go with that installed, performance is extremely hindered; CPUs were not designed for dedicated playback of videos.
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that's not logic, that's statement.
It is logic because logic deals with the principals of reasoning, and in your statement you reason that if one plays a game on their computer at a native 1920x1440 resolution and takes a screenshot to find that the buttom half was cut off, then instead of the blaming and placing fault on the software for having such bug, you blame an entity within the situation that has little to do with the actual problem (or the "root" of the problem). To kill a problem, you have to tackle it by its roots. You don't kill a weed by lawn mowing it.
To simplify what I just wrote, here is another illustration: it's like blaming guns for killing people. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. You are blaming guns (user for no logical reason), and I am blaming people (software bug).
High resolution gaming (2048x1536 and higher) has been around for a number of years now, and Fraps is a very widely and well known and used application for recording and screenshot taking. The developers of Fraps told me that this bug existed in only a few known games/applications and that they were fixing it.
If you say that there is no logical connection between the user and the bug of only half the picture being taken, then I must say -- welcome to planet Earth!
Anyway, I'm more about helping people than I am for things like the above, as one could easily take it offensively. If you are a critical thinker, you will not take that offensively. A critical thinker is always open minded, willing to learn, and seeks truth.
If you would like me to assist in fixing your friend's problem, then I would recommend you get in touch with me through AIM/MSN/ICQ/YIM/Jabber/GTalk (you can find details in my account profile here or at my blog at
http://www.joyunbound.com/?page_id=31).