Re: LCD 24" screen for Delphi?

On 10 Dec 2005 16:18:42 -0700, "Alisdair Meredith[TeamB]"
<alisdair.meredith@no-spam-splease@uk.renaultf1.com> wrote:

>Loren Pechtel wrote:
>
>> I wish someone would come out with a tall monitor. Yes, some are
>> rotateable but that involves software and thus fails under DirectX.
>
>Sounds like poorly written drivers/games than an issue with your
>monitor. I have certainly run the few games I still play in portait
>mode monitors without problem - other than getting a different
>perspective on the game than the level designers expected ;?)
>
>I do get problems with older games, oddly the more windows/forms based
>strategy games like Civ. For those I simply rotate back to landscape
>mode :?(

I've never tried it on my system but I have seen it on other
systems--anything that takes over the screen (even some screensavers!)
put it back into landscape.
.

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