How do I downscale monitor resolution on a laptop monitor? I

I don't think I'm following you.

How many monitors are there?
What native resolutions do these monitors have?
What resolution do you want the operating system to run on?

>>372853

>How many monitors are there?
One built in laptop display
>What native resolutions do these monitors have?
1600x900
>What resolution do you want the operating system to run on?
1920x1080

>>372855
You can't go above the native resolution. You cannot output to more pixels than there are on the display, so the OS has to run on 1600x900 as well. If you then open 1920x1080 content (like a video) you can downscale to 1600x900 in software.

>>372858
>You can downscale to 1600x900 in software.
diff anon here. I used to watch 1080p movies on 1600x900 and it was lagging like shit but that was 5 years ago so maybe the gpus got better at it.

>>372858
Sure you can, the Nvidia NVS drivers explicitly support this.

As will any 720p TV that supports HDMI: they can downscale 1080 to 720, even though that's more pixels than are on the display.

>>372922

Do AMD Drivers support this?

>>372922
>Nvidia NVS drivers explicitly support this
Never heard about it, sounds interesting though. From a cursory google search it looks like NVS is some kind of proprietary standard for multi-display arrangements aimed at businesses? And it seems to require special NVS cards?

And from all that it's still not clear to me they actually support that and if they do whether they just scale it down on the driver-level (aka still in software) before outputting the correct native resolution or whether they actually pass-through larger resolutions than the display supports.

>As will any 720p TV
Alright, I believe you. I've not owned a TV in like 10 years, so that's probably true. How is that relevant to this thread though?