Help! - Video card that can do 1:1 scaling under XP

[Phil1977]

Good day guys from Australia!

Haven't had much luck in the australian forums, so I am hoping someone from the US can help me out!

I have a machine with dual boot W7 and XP.

Mainboard is a basic Asrock board with Nvidia chipset, I have a AMD Athlon II 250 3 GHz dual core and a Geforce 9600GT.

I do play a lot of older games like point and click adventures and also BF2142. These games run in 4:3 mode.

There is a setting in the Nvidia driver "Do not scale". This setting used to work with my 8800GT years ago. But it doesn't work with my 9600GT. I have tried older drivers, all the way back to the first driver released for the 9600GT, but with no luck.

I simply can't get it to work :-(

Oddly this feature works fine under Windows 7! But a lot of my old games do not run under Windows 7. So they will only run under XP..

Now I am thinking of going ATI again, I used to have a Radeon 4850 and was very happy with that card.

I got the 9600GT because people told me the drivers are better. But I have had more issues that with my Radeon card. E.g. there is a known issue under XP with Bioshock. It only works with an old driver. Same with BF 2142. With the new drivers and AA turned on, you get a weird checkboard pattern on the screen...

So my question is: Will a new Radeon card (I am looking at 5750 and 5770) allow 1:1 pixel mode (letterboxing with the black bars around the image) work under XP?

My monitor is a Acer 18.5" 16:9. Native resolution 1366 x 768. And what I want is 1024 x 768 resolution that won't stretch. I want black bars on the side so I can enjoy my old games...

So to all the XP users that have a Radeon 5750 or 5770, can you please let me know if this feature works under XP?

Thanks guys!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Oddly this feature works fine under Windows 7! But a lot of my old games do not run under Windows 7. So they will only run under XP..

have you tried running them in xp mode?

edit:
sorry i meant to say "compatibility mode". xp mode is something else.

 

[HalfCrazy]

If the game don't give a 1024x768 in the option menu. Did you try looking in the game DIR for a file called like "settings.ini" or something. Then try changing the resolution to what you want.

Remember if you try this, don't go in the options menu. Cause it might change the settings back to where it was.