Widescreen Gaming Forum

Video Card: ASUS 8600GT (G1S-A1 Laptop)
Driver: Unknown, asus installed.

Monitor: Westinghouse 42w2 DVI2
Centered Output: Working
Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling: Working

Unlike the same monitor with a pc and 8800 Ultra both work. I'm guessing the Asus installed driver does something different. Anyone know how I can identify what/which driver is built in?

Video Card: XFX 8800GTS 512Mb
Driver: 169.02
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64
Monitor: Samsung 244T
Centered Output: Working
Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling: Working

Video Card: XFX 6800 GS 256 MB
Driver: 169.21
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 931BW (1440x900 native)

Centered Output: Not working. A smaller image with black bars surrounding it will be displayed, but it is still in 16:10 aspect ratio.

Fixed Aspect: Not working. When setting to a 4:3 ratio, black bars will appear on the top and bottom of the screen, as though the image is being shrunk vertically, possibly scaled for a 16:9 ratio. The bars should be on the right and left; it needs to be shrunk horizontally.

Anyone have an idea to fix this yet?

Video Card: XFX 6800 GS 256 MB
Driver: 169.21
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 931BW (1440x900 native)

Centered Output: Not working. A smaller image with black bars surrounding it will be displayed, but it is still in 16:10 aspect ratio.

Fixed Aspect: Not working. When setting to a 4:3 ratio, black bars will appear on the top and bottom of the screen, as though the image is being shrunk vertically, possibly scaled for a 16:9 ratio. The bars should be on the right and left; it needs to be shrunk horizontally.

Anyone have an idea to fix this yet?

Didn't your monitor has internal scaling? you could look for that in the monitor menu (not xp, the real buttons)

Retested in Vista SP1 x64. And they both work!
I did not test in x86 or non-SP1.

Video Card: 6800 GS pci-e
Driver: 169.06
Operating System: Vista SP1 x64
Monitor: Syncmaster 931bw
Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling: Works!
Do Not Scale: Works!

I used to be under Vista x32 on this laptop, scaling did not work back then but at least I could try and choose the different options.

Now under Vista x64 they are all greyed.

Ya know, if Nvidia and ATI's driver teams combined, maybe we could get a half-functionning driver for once.

Ya know, if Nvidia and ATI's driver teams combined, maybe we could get a half-functionning driver for once.

Nah, all the bugs would multiply, and we'd be back to the original Det/Cat horrors. ;)

You do know that was irony right? the last proper video driver I've seen pre-dates windows 98.

Of course, it's also been a long time since it's been a video driver at all, what with including every media related gimmick in their arsenal on top of whats needed to run the hardware. That and mislabeled/deceptive programs.

Windows XP w/ ATI: NOT working.
Windows XP w/ NVidia: NOT working.
Windows Vista w/ ATI: NOT working.
Windows Vista w/ NVidia: WORKS.

Monitor: Acer 19", DVI connection.

Test Cards:
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 6800
Radeon 9800 Pro

Drivers Tested:
Virtually all drivers released in 2006, 2007, and 2008.

I would have purchased a shiny new ATI card (3870 or 3850), but I'm sticking with NVidia and Vista because its the only thing I've found that supports fixed aspect correctly.

I play a bunch of games, and it is SO NICE to have resolutions like 1024x768 displayed correctly on my 16:10 monitor.

Same problem here.

My monitor native resolution is 1680x1050, but it supports 1600x1200.
When the GPU have to scale the image, the output resolution is always 1600x1200 and the pixels are stretched like the photos in the first post.

No solution yet?

Should be very simple, the Forceware needs to get the maximum resolution from the monitor driver (wich can be customized with Rivatuner if needed) instead of the EDID info.

The fun part is that I moved from X1900XT to 8800 GTS 512MB. After years of complain, ATI finally supported GPU scaling since Catalyst 8.3. Scaling was working nicely with the ATI card, but now with the NVIDIA card is broken. :?