Ati driver aspect ratio

Croak , thank you for the input and it seems that you are in line with ATi: Regarding resolutions: Please note that resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor. The monitor tells the card which resolutions are available and the options are displayed in the advance display properties.

Please contact the monitor manufacturer to make sure they have tested the monitor with ATI video cards. What you are saying makes sense and I am left wondering if the information we are receiving on the nVidia options and solutions on the same monitor are correct.

I personally cannot confirm this firsthand as the only nVidia card I have is a Chaintech FX which does not support any widescreen formats and maxes out at x I do see the options for 'timings' and 'centerings' as well as the aspect ratios in the nVidia control panel. Cannydog can you confirm this? I have noticed that most people are running either Oblivion or Half Life2 when testing the scaling options.

I think a more concrete test would be a game that does not support widescreen at all. Cause I am pretty sure I can get Half Life2 to run x with the proper aspect ratio bars on side currently. I will test that out tonight and post screenie. Joined May 18, Messages 5.

Under digital panel in CCC, there are indeed options for centered timings. Stone n00b. Joined May 13, Messages 2. As I stated in another thread, this monitor definitely has issues with scaling, but I think it is all driver related. On my GTX, if I select the 'maintain aspect ratio' setting in my drivers, the monitor will immediately black out with an 'out of range' setting.

On my son's ATI PRO with the latest driver, If I select the 'centered timings' option, the monitor will simply ignore the setting, and continue to stretch everthing. However, on another machine with an old Geforce card, if I select the maintain aspect ratio option, it works perfectly.

Black bars will appear on the sides anytime I select a 4x3 resoloution such as x or x Well it seems that there is no real resolve to this issue. I am coming to the end of my term with this monitor as I only have a few more days left to return it for a refund.

Without any solution or any sort of word from Viewsonic has been about a weeks time since I asked for a reply to my question with support as to options, I will most likely return this monitor to the place of purchase for a refund. I did order a Dell 20" FPW and should have that here today so that I can do a side by side comparison and see if the reported banding issues are indeed a problem for me.

It's a shame as I really did like this Viewsonic, but I still play quite a few games that do not support widescreen.

My only other option if the Dell does not meet my standards is to keep the Viewsonic and run a seperate out to my standard monitor when I wish to play those games.

Defeating the purpose of a space saving flat panel, lol. I will keep you posted on my findings and please if anyone does find a resolve to this, please post here. Thank you all for the input thus far. Good Luck sparkie13 - I figured out how I can get it Not to scale on some "non-standard" resolutions but not how to get it to scale I'm just about to order it.

Unfortunately I will have to return one. Wives just don't understand. Anyways I am happy for the most part with the Dell and that is what I will keep.

In a year from now when most new games support widescreen, the Viewsonic will be the perfect choice. For now, I just can't choose this over Monitors that offer this option. Now for us ATi users, I suggest if you wish to play older non widescreen games, to seriously think about this purchase before hand.

A good monitor, but Take care for now and good luck and happy gaming to all. Joined May 25, Messages 1, Actually I think this is just a problem with the ATI driver. I'm having this problem as well, here's my situation. Half-Life 2, set to X Check the option in the Nvidia driver to center the display.

Worked like a charm, letterboxed, not stretched. Check the option in CCC for centered timings. Image is still stretched. Driver option is broken. I've submitted a ticket as well. I just submitted a ticket as I have just received my VXWM, and the scaling is broken with driver 6.

Daggah 2[H]4U. Joined Mar 26, Messages 3, Does anyone know if ATI has any plans to work on this? Is this an issue that maybe the omega drivers have fixed? The scaling was working with the 6. NVidia drivers are unique in that they automatically inject black lines to force display of any resolution with the correct scaling.. Joined Feb 8, Messages I go to lower resolution, the options become available, i choose "keep aspect ratio" i siwtch back to native and they grey out again and the "scale to full panel size" is ticked although greyed They probably run ok i guess if i stay at their own resolution, messing up my desktop etc but thats kinda idiotic driver behavior for a modern driver design edit: it can get more broke than that.

It works for the desktop alone. Guess what, the game expanded and transformed again to full screen x Closing the game, desktop is still at x maintaining aspect ratio. Go figure Go figure II Last edited: Mar 8, Just tested it with my setup.

Lowered desktop res to x, ticked GPU scalling and Maintain ratio. Ran 3Dmark01 at x and it maintained ratio Usually it's streched to full panel size x Different games at diff res. Only had to enable it and it sticks for all res. This is with Cat Board index Hardware Graphics. Thus we're stuck into Flattenedville any time the resolution is not widescreen. Here's the fix: - Set your resolution to anything below your usual resolution. Set it to advanced mode if it's not already.

Hit Apply. Even though the forementioned scaling controls are greyed out and you can actually see "Scale image to full panel size" grey-selected, don't worry. There is a fixed amount of intelligence on the planet, and the population keeps growing :. That was irritating me, hopefully they will make it easier to set properly in the future.

This was bothering me for a long time and I didn't think I was going to find a solution until I read your post. For those devices, you have to install the old 9. Your instructions do not work with those "legacy" Vista drivers. Here's how you get at the aspect ratio settings in the legacy Vista drivers version 9.

Choose "Notebook Panel Properties", and then in the right-hand side you will see "Resize the desktop to fit the display panel". You will now be on the "Desktop Image for Notebook Displays" screen, where you can select from the following options: - Do not resize - Resize to fit the display panel - Resize, but keep the image's original dimensions aspect ratio 8. Choose an option, and click the "Finish" button. Shizoku Gerbil In Training.

Unfortunately when I use the Basic method it greys out "GO" and tells me to use the Advanced settings. When I use the Advanced method as described here, the scaling options are greyed out as well. I used an upgrade disc to install win 7. I've spent countless hours trying to find a solution to this, this solution was the closest thing I've had to success so far. Dear ATI, I just bought a inch widescreen and have to connect my other monitor to fully enjoy games that don't support widescreen resolutions.

Cali Supreme [H]ardness. Joined Mar 22, Messages 4, I can get it working with my fpw. I can play any game and it makes it full screen proper aspect. Cali said:. Click to expand Deusfaux said:. You are mistaken You cannot get say, Starcraft to fill your screen vertically and not horizontally. It is either stretched horizontally, or run in a box. Or post a photo of your claim otherwise.

I mean I have my doubts here Joined Dec 25, Messages 3, It works for me too. The problem is with you, bud. Ahh, I see what you mean. In order to do what you want I just do fixed scaling with my monitor. Can you not do that? I have scale image to full panel size and aspect selected in my monitors Control panel.

Dunan [H]ard Gawd. Joined Aug 28, Messages 1, Obi - "fixed scaling" is not an option under panel properties Is this OSD on-screen display settings you are changing via the buttons on your monitor when you say your "monitors control panel" Obi - "fixed scaling" is not an option under panel properties I highly doubt that. I have 2 30" So my point still stands. Any really, you probably want your drivers doing this and not your monitor anyways. Nihilanth99 2[H]4U. Joined Aug 28, Messages 3, As things stand for me with this FPW, I have to fuss around with the monitor settings every time I want to scale the resolution to So it works, but it's a real pain.

Come on ATI! Vashypooh 2[H]4U.