Windows + Plasma + Widescreen + Resolution = :(

Heofz

Heofz

Heofz

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Hey all,

I have my 42" plasma hooked up as my main monitor for my PC however it takes a maximum resolution of 1024x768.

As my plasma sees 1024x768 as a widescreen resolution (16:9) and windows sees it as normal (4:3), everything looks squashed.

Playing certain games such as Rome: Total War, BF2 etc seem to be fine as you can change the in-game aspect to cater for widescreen or not, however windows obviously does not have such a feature.

What I'd like to do (if possible) is obtain some sort of program (or driver?) which will fool windows into thinking it is running a 16:9 resolution but still output @ 1024x768.

I've googled everywhere and cannot find such a program, so was kind of hoping one of you guys might be able to help :)
 
nah its perfectly crisp :)

non-plasma telly's only run at 720x576 and you can get 33" ones and they look perfect

I think the reason it looks ok is because with a plasma tv you have to sit quite far back in order to see it all, but with PC monitors you sit at your desk only about 18" from the screen.

But anyways... any solutions to my problem??? ;):p
 
whoops, forgot to put the picture up and now I'm at work.

Teal: yeah I was just hoping that I could somehow run my pc at a widescreen resolution, but then somehow get its output to be a "squeezed" image @ 1024x768, so that when its displayed on the widescreen, the wide pixels stretch out the image again so the ratios are right.

There must be a program/drivers out there that can do this :E
 
Here is the pic by the way :) (rome total war)
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as for "external scaler", where would one be able to find one of these? :)
 
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