For any Widescreen TFT owners, a quick check please

Joe42 said:
Hey Baddass and co, i've just got my pair of hanns g ws monitors going via dvi and the option for nvidia aspect scaling is in the nvidia control panel!

I'll have to experiment and see if it works, but other hanns g owners said it wasn't there.

This is very good news indeed if it does work.
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Mine has always shown nvidia aspect scaling up in DVI mode, but it just doesn't work. The screen displays an "out of range" or "no signal" message.

However, I did notice the following on my setup: If you set your screen resolution to 1024x768 before trying aspect scaling and then activate it, the screen will size will be reduced... but still stretched to a widescreen ratio.
 
Is everyone clear where to find these options? Just incase you don't know, right click on your desktop -> properties -> settings tab -> advanced -> (your graphics card tab, mine says GeForce 6600 GT) -> nView display settings -> right click on your monitor(s) -> device adjustments.

I have tried the centered output on 1024x768 on my Dell 2007WFP and it works fine and looks normal. That fix aspect ratio scaling works fine to on 1280x1024, I can't believe I had forgotten how crappy 5:4 gaming looks compared to 16:10 !! lol.
 
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Diam!!! All this pixel mapping hey? I don't think my laptop screen would do it so I just play games in a window but pixel mapped would be better.

So does this mean that if I buy a monitor like say the Dell2407 then I can get away with having a quite mediocre graphics card? What's the minimum graphics card(nvidia pref) I would look at to make games run smooth at 1280x1024. Cheers?
 
manoz said:
Diam!!! All this pixel mapping hey? I don't think my laptop screen would do it so I just play games in a window but pixel mapped would be better.

So does this mean that if I buy a monitor like say the Dell2407 then I can get away with having a quite mediocre graphics card? What's the minimum graphics card(nvidia pref) I would look at to make games run smooth at 1280x1024. Cheers?
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I have a 6600gt and new games dont like it one bit, so probabilly a 6800gt :P
 
fobose said:
I have a 6600gt and new games dont like it one bit, so probabilly a 6800gt :P
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Ah I see, come end of september when I make my rig I will only be able to afford one card worth bout £150. Looking at the prices of the cards at the moment looks like I'll be able to run them then, at least until Crysis comes out. All I want to run is Half-Life Eps! Cheers!
 
just thought i'd see how updates are looking and noticed the 'Y' for software on WS2025 which is good news for me as i originally posted on page 1 and it was a 'N'.

I had seen the option in my Nvidia setting but didnt try it as i assumed it just wouldn't work, i'll try it when i get home in 3 hours!
 
Uriel said:
Any chance we can get this updated for some of the newer widescreen TFTs that have come out?
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Wow, thread revival.
You'll have to give Baddass a poke and he can update the list.

There have been a few nvidia driver updates since this thread but the aspect scaling still doesn't work on my hanns g monitors.
I'm keen to know what the ati drivers have in the way of software aspect scaling...

Having been running widescreen monitors which don't support either software or hardware scaling for a while now, i can say that it really doesn't matter, playing non widescreen games stretched to widescreen is a non issue, it looks fine.

Edit: There is a list on Baddass's website, which looks like it may be more up to date than this thread.
 
not in the origonal list, but I have an LG L194WT and it doesn't have this as an option in the menu, but a couple of clicks in the ati control panel and the jobs a goodun.
 
Hi mate, yeah that's my site :D i will update the monitor list there actually as well, and maybe just link to the table of them all in the sticky, nice plan :)
 
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