Samsung Epix Forums

There are a variety of apps which change the screen settings.  Some may produce conflicts / crashes / lockups.

I know of:

RealVGA

OzVGA

ForceHighResolution

Tweak2k2

I'm currently trying out ForceHighResolution, though I haven't found much I actually want which I need it for.

You can also play with the screen size yourself in the registry. Change 128 to 96.  This will cause a host of icons to not display correctly, but this is what OzVGA and RealVGA do in effect, as well as provide a bunch of DLLs to fix the icon issues.  This change effects the entire operating system.

PHM Registery Editor -> HKLM/Drivers/Display/GPE/LogicalPixelsX , Y

ForceHighResolution, Tweak2k2, (and there are a few others), do it a different way, causing the OS to think select applications support high resolution, even though they don't.  So I hear, this causes 320×240 applications to display on the left side of the screen, instead of trying to stretch by 1.5.

Personally, I don't know what MicroSoft/Samsung were thinking.  Why would I want all those old applications to be cut off at the bottom, rather than have wasted space on the side?  Of COURSE I want to see all it's buttons! (DUH!)

You can set them individually.  By keeping X at 128 and setting Y to 96, you will stretch a 240 x 320 app to perfectly fit your screen.

When I first discovered these registry settings, I though “I have a 320 screen, I'll set them both to 320.”  BIG MISTAKE.  What would normally take up an inch of space on the screen instead took up the whole screen (the values are dots per inch).  Most of my screen was the Start and Menu bar.  I -was- able to get PHM Registry Editor open again, but then couldn't navigate around, and ended up clicking the wrong thing I think and screwing my my registry.

I had to Hard Reset to fix it.  You could probably recover from going the other way though.  Setting small values makes it look like you've got a HUGE desktop (but everything's tiny).

The main problem seems to be that some fonts and icons don't have a valid version of the new DPI, and so something bogus gets displayed.  When I changed only my Y setting, it seemed like most icons worked fine, thouh they looked a little squished.

And some program do direct draws to the screen, making it nearly impossible to fix.  Also, to do this change, you have to perform a soft reset, which takes forever (if only there were a way to speed THAT up!).

Although most programs I've installed have correctly handled (or close enough) the Epix's screen size, A few have buttons and such down off the screen.  My understanding is the Windows resource draws them 1″ to the right and 1.5″ down (or spo).

Having a non-uniform aspect ration (ie 128 dpi x 96 dpi) makes the fonts and icons look a little squished, but most graphics (like games and video) use a more direct draw approach, which makes it look okay.

I really dont know a whole lot about how it all works out.  I'd say you have to try it for each individual application.  Each one will do something different with all the various resolution hacks. 

So for, I'm trying to keep to ForceHighResolution, and only tweaking DPI settings when  absolutely necessary (and for limited periods of time).