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I have a Lenovo z50-70 laptop, its maximum screen resolution is 1366x768.

I wonder if using a virtual machine to force higher resolution like 1440x900 or 1920x1080 is safe for my laptop's screen or not.

The reason why I want to do this is because I play the game Age of Empires 2 and in this game your screen resolution is related to how much of the map you can see on your screen. I know that the safer solution would be to get a monitor that supports these resolutions and connect it to my laptop but I can't afford this at the moment.

I actually tried the virtual machine option and it worked but I'm worried about the safety of this.

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It is perfectly safe, because the higher resolution is not actually used, but its emulated. As a result, you do lose pixels, and thus, things will look a bit blurry.

Basically a 1920x1080 image is squeezed down to 1366x768.

That said, running a game in a Virtual Machine will hurt your gaming performance, especially if you are gaming in a higher resolution. This may be a factor that will decide that this is not an option.

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