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Why is my screen resolution so big and words so small?

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  • I just updated my Video Driver from Steam like 2 minutes ago and it started downloading so I went to make a sandwich. I came back and my screen was on the computer account login page and the resolution was huge and looked really bad. So I logged in and everything is now big and a bit blurry. Some things are different now too, like when i scroll over the internet explorer page icon in the Start Bar/Toolbar thing and it only shows words instead of the screen I'm currently on. I then went to change my Screen's Resolution through right clicking on my desktop and going to Screen Resolution. I used to have it on 1920 x 1080, but now it only goes up to 1450 x 1050! Why?! I'm just wondering how to get it back. My graphics card is a Radeon HD 5450 (I know its terrible). Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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    aparantly Steam installed a driver that is not working with your Graphics card, SHAME ON THEM! they don't know what they are doing, those idiots! what you should do is ( if you don't see anything on your monitor cus blurry?) boot the computer in failsafe mode, depending on OS it's different but it should be one of the F keys so just press all of them at boot LOL I think xp is F8, or could be F1, F2,F3,F4, try press all of those real fast at boot, but not all at once, more like a drummer, LOL RATATATATATA you could allways use just 1 key at the time but be prepared to boot 12 times, my way is quicker if you don,t know which key is fail safe, OK, it's allways the last one you try, LOL then when you finally have booted to fail safe mode, go to the device manager and uninstall the driver, then reboot the computer, it will then install the previous driver, Steam is not a good place to download drivers from, you should try Windows update, they provide the newest drivers too and easyest to install, or you can go to the ATI site,

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You can try rolling back to the restore point, but before you do that, try rebooting. There's a weird thing in Win7 that allows one to use the screen in a magnifying glass view (it's obnoxious). It happened to me once on my netbook and rebooting fixed it.

Laura

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