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Pixel Scaling.

Dano151

Dano151

Dano151

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How do I stop my graphics card from scaling resolutions? The problem is, that I seem to get increased performance when I play games in my monitors native resolution 1280x1024, but would like to play them in 1280x720 with letter boxing or something, which would increase performance further. I lose about 10fps from playing Crysis full screen as opposed to in a window, but I don't want to play in a window. In short, I want widescreen on a square monitor. Any help at all would be much appreciated, as far as I can tell I'm the only person who actually wants to do this, can't find anything helpful on Google...

Specs:
Asus msn sli deluxe motherboard
XFX 8600GT 512Mb
AMD athalon 6000+ dual core CPU
2GB ram
Windows XP home service pack 3

If that's any help...
 
From what I'm aware, its a feature built into monitors/TVs. Haven't heard of software being able to do this. I think its called 1:1 pixel mapping...
 
Ahh, I'm guessing not, there's no setting for it whatsoever in the menu, my monitor is mainly a TV, but with a VGA socket, I'm guessing that's the problem?
Thanks for the speedy reply by the way...
 
Don't think there's an option for 1:1 mapping, but there should be a page for flat panel scaling in the NV control panel - set it to fixed aspect ratio scaling and run at native width i.e. 1280xanything.
 
No options for anything to do with scaling in the control panel, would this change if I used another monitor? Or is it more to do with my GFX card? I'm using the 182.06 drivers.
 
"Overscan compensation is not supported on GeForce 8800 Ultra, GTX,GTS 640/320* graphics cards"

"*Not applicable to any other GPU product except models listed."

My GPU is an 8600GT, will this matter? I'm just being extra cautious as I've had nVidia driver problems in the past, had to format my HDD, don't want the same trouble again D=

Also, I'm not running through a HDMI, I'm going through a VGA, if that makes any difference?

Thanks for all the help btw, REALLY appreciate it.
 
Can't say for sure... I'd have thought the 8600GT would be fine, and the worst it could do with VGA is nothing at all. If things do go wrong then it should be an easy enough matter to boot into safe mode and run the included app to remove the registry key.
 
Okay, just downloaded Lost Planet on Steam, (£3.49!) and this has an option "Correct aspect ratio" and turning this off disables vertical pixel scaling, it will still stretch the picture horizontally, but allows you to play any resolution, with or without widescreen, this game is like two years old.. Why don't they put this in EVERY game, its so useful D=
Still haven't had the guts to try out the registry editor yet, sounds like the perfect thing, but with it saying it only applies to the 8800 series.. I'm just not 100%.. but thanks all the same guys, been a great help =)
 
nVidia control panel -> flat planel scaling -> do not scale
press apply.

With a crt, I had to use powerstrip/custom reso to set the resolution and the nvidia overscan patch to make it stick.
 
I've a feeling rivatuner had a way to do pixel mapping, I dont think panel scaling appears in the control panel when you're using VGA, i think its a DVI only thing.
 
My bad, yeah it's not rivatuner, its powerstrip that lets you do scaling, I can guide you through how to do it, although powerstrip is not free software. Let me know if you want a guide.
 
Nah I'm not paying for anything, I thought maybe there was just a simple setting I'd missed somewhere, but it seems to be a lot more complicated, I was planning on getting a new monitor anyway, if I get one with a DVI ill be able to do that flat panel scaling thing? And what exactly does that do?

Also, to Baka&Ni, what GFX card did you have when you used the overscan patch?
 
Tried the overscan patch, didn't work, doesn't seem to be any solution to this other than buying a new GFX card/monitor. =(
Thanks for all the help.
 
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