EPrime display settings for widescreen monitors

[Paul Groot]

Hi Kaitlyn,

This depends on the software options of the graphics card of the laptop.
Most drivers have options to select the display modes: scale full screen
on/off and keep aspect ratio on/off. Scaling is in some cases acceptable,
but only if the aspect ratio is unchanged. Those options can typically be
configured using manufacturer-specific software. For example Radeon
graphics cards come with Catalyst Control Center, but other manufacturers
offer similar configuration software. Another workaround is to connect an
external monitor that has the desired resolution. However, video timing
might be less accurate in that case.

Best
Paul





On 3 April 2014 18:21, Kaitlyn T <tagarelk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having a similar problem. I was wondering if anyone had an answer to
> Josh's original question, as to whether there is a general setting in
> Windows that can be changed to fix display resolution in E-Prime, rather
> than changing each script individually. To maintain consistency across
> multiple laptops, we chose a display setting that resulted in a square
> display with black space on the right and left side of the screen. This was
> working fine on a normal and widescreen monitor, but we recently updated
> the normal laptop and now the E-Prime display is stretched out to fill the
> whole screen. The best solution we've found so far is to choose "Yes" for
> "Match desktop resolution at runtime." However, this is problematic for two
> reasons: 1) although the images are no longer distorted, they are not the
> same size as they were with the previous settings, which is a problem with
> consistency, and 2) this solution involves changing settings in ~25 E-Prime
> files, and having slightly different versions of the files on different
> computers. I think there must be a general Windows setting that controls
> this issue, seeing as this only changed when we updated the Windows system.
> Note we did not change the OS (XP), but just changed hard drive and RAM.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate it!
>
> Kaitlyn
>
> On Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:32:18 PM UTC-4, Speech Perception Research
> Lab NYU wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Our lab just got a new experimental laptop which has a slightly different
>> screen size than our other 2.  We run about 6 different experimental tasks
>> in EPrime on all 3 of these machines, and when we use the new one with the
>> wider monitor, all of the images and text get stretched horizontally.  I
>> understand that I can fix the problem by changing the properties for each
>> image on EPrime, but I'm wondering if there is some more general setting
>> that I can change for the one computer so that images won't be stretched
>> and I won't need to change individual settings within each script.  Our old
>> laptops use a display setting of 1024x768 pixels, and this new one uses
>> 1366x768.  Changing the display settings for the computer itself doesn't
>> fix the problem, so I wonder if I can do it within EPrime.  In PowerPoint,
>> for example, when presentations are viewed fullscreen on a widescreen
>> monitor, it fills the sides with blank space so that everything can be done
>> on a standard display size and avoid stretching.  I'm wondering if I there
>> is an equivalent setting within EPrime.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Josh
>>
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