Is there any way to go past the maximum resolution that your display limits, such as shrinking down the display size to emulate something like 1600x1200 on a 17 inch screen thats doing 1280x1024?

Tried that ResHackerX program, or whatever its name was? I forgot. >.o;

sounds like my old display name.

Not really, you would need to hack hard coded edids to change the resolution and most likely it would even work.

SwitchResX