Geforce 2 MX/400 - Drivers with TVOut Resizing Options? UPDATE: nVidia is teh stoopid

reallyscrued

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Does anyone know of a Detonator or even Forceware driver pack version that has picture resizing options for the TV-Out connection of a Geforce 2 MX? I'm using this card's composite video out and it's not filling my display's screen fully; there is an inch black border all the way around.

(My display does not support stretching of the screen over composite and I ruled out the display for being the culprit as a set-top DVD player over composite fills the whole screen.)

The kicker is, even during bootup before Windows loads, the BIOS screens, the PoST screens all include the black border. I am wondering if it a limitation of the card to not overscan the image, but hopefully not. I thought it would be a pretty simple thing to include in the drivers, but I have not come across any drivers that allow resizing or even repositioning on the TV-Out connection.

I've tried the latest Forcewares, and Detonator 77.77. I'm running Windows XP Pro at a resolution of 640x480 @ 60 hz. Lower resolutions don't show at all and higher resolutions don't eliminate the black border.

Thanks for any help.
 
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lsv

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There should be overscan options in the drivers... somewhere. I can't remember where :(
 

reallyscrued

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EDIT: The card is a GeForce 2 MX/400, not GeForce 4 title post edited with new information.

lsv - I've been searching for such an option and can't seem to find it.

I'm using 66.xx drivers now and they allow repositioning of the screen but the border remains. It will reposition to pass the borders (for example: I can move the viewable area way to the right and it will get rid of the border on the right, thus making the border on the left even thicker) but there is no option for overscanning or zooming the entire image or resizing, etc.

Right now I'm using a trial version of a program called TVTool which allows some extra options on the TVout of an nVidia card. It has a "fullscreen" option which not only fills up the whole screen, but actually extends it a little beyond, so I lose a good 40-50 pixels on all sides now. So either I have to choose between seeing everything on my desktop but not using all my screen real estate or stretching the image beyond the size of my screen by the same amount.

This is crazy. This should be a basic option included in drivers; anyone here have any contacts with nVidia's software support? Can you ask them why their drivers don't allow for basic options such as repositioning or resizing on TVOut? I shouldn't have to fall back on a third party application for this.