Did you ever run an application that was designed for a specific resolution on your new shiny 1920×1200 monitor only to find out that it was almost impossible to work with it in that resolution ? I’m not only talking about old DOS games here but also about presentations for instance or applications that have been developed in house. Basically everything that goes full screen automatically could be affected as well.
Res-o-matic [via Download Squad] comes to the rescue. The application creates program shortcuts that force the desktop to a specific screen resolution, refresh rate and color depth. The minimum screen resolution available is 640×480 while the maximum probably depends on your monitor, mine was set to 1280×1024. Colors Depth can be set to 8,16 or 32 bit and the refresh rate again depends on the monitor and can be completely ignored if you have a LCD monitor.
A shortcut will be created in the end which – when pressed – will change the display resolution accordingly and launch the application afterwards. Exiting the application changes the display resolution back to the original one.
Res-o-matic is a tiny 9 Kilobyte tool that comes in very handy, it’s probably the easiest way to change the screen resolution automatically at every application start.
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I have a wide screen monitor that does not work well with Photoshop®. Squares and perfect circles are distorted in the horizontal state. Photoshop® is set up for 1024 x 768 resolution and does not work well with anything else.
Res-o-matic and a few minor adjustments to Photoshop® now gives me perfect resolution at 1280 x 800.
Thank-you very much for producing this little utility.
C-Wied
http://www.cwied.com