Displaying non native resoultion on an LCD

[L337Llama]

I got a stupid easy question that I have been trying to figure out for the past 15 minutes and its making me lose my mind.

My lcd is set to display anything that isnt the native resolutiong by centering it (giving black bars all around). However, I want to see how different resolutions look if they are all stretched on the screen.

Now for the stupid part. I cant find anywhere where you can change it so it's not centering my display. What tab am I supposed to go to? I checked virtually anything under the nvidia display drivers, and unless I am blind or illiterate, I cant find anything.

 

[moonboy403]

if you're using dell, you can go to the image setting then scaling...change it to fill

if you wanna use the nvidia's scaling, you need coolbit 2 i think

then go to nView display setting/device setting/device adjustments

you can now change it to whatever you want!

 

[Sonikku]

Scaling + LCD = Bad

Have fun.

 

[moonboy403]

Originally posted by: Sonikku
Scaling + LCD = Bad

Have fun.

nope....you're wrong on this, filling the screen with less than the native resolution pixels would be bad

but when you scale the resolution to be 1 to 1 on screen....it actually looks really good
for example, with my 2005fpw (1680x1050 native) running 1 to 1 scaling to 1280x1024....it latter resolution actually look much sharper than the native resolution

but of course, running in 1:1 means you'll have black borders

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: moonboy403

Originally posted by: Sonikku
Scaling + LCD = Bad

Have fun.

nope....you're wrong on this, filling the screen with less than the native resolution pixels would be bad

but when you scale the resolution to be 1 to 1 on screen....it actually looks really good
for example, with my 2005fpw (1680x1050 native) running 1 to 1 scaling to 1280x1024....it latter resolution actually look much sharper than the native resolution

but of course, running in 1:1 means you'll have black borders

Umm....I don't think it's possible to 1:1 scale unless you have at least twice (well, 4x, twice in each direction) the resolution. You're keeping the aspect ratio 1:1, but you're still distorting the resolution.
You can scale 640x480 to 1280x960 without any scaling problems, and 800x600 to 1600x1200, but 1280x1024 can't be scaled to 1680x1050, most likely you're just running it with boarders if it's not getting blurry, or the monitor just has enough extra resolution that the scaling doesn't look bad, but it still doesn't have enough pixels to upsample 1280x1024 with no scaling artifacts. In fact, you can't sacle it, your max vertical res is 1050 and 1024 is damn close to that, you're just displaying an unscaled but unstretched 1280x1024.