How to scale dell 2405fpw

[FearoftheNight]

How do I make it so that the monitor doesn't stretch and displays 1:1. I want to set it at 800x600 and 1600 x 1200 w/ the black bars on the side? Thanks in advance.
-fear

 

[Visual]

dont have a dell myself, so i dont know if there are any scaling settings in the monitor's OSD, but you can look around it

depending on your video card/driver version you can do it in your driver settings - my 6600gt certainly had a setting to display 1:1, and im fairly sure atis had that feature even earlier.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

open the osd, click on image settings and choose aspect under the scaling options.

 

[Busithoth]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
open the osd, click on image settings and choose aspect under the scaling options.

actually, you need to set the desktop to 800x600 first, then the option becomes available in the On-Screen-Display. choose 1:1 pixel and reset resolution, you should be fine.

 

[Visual]

Originally posted by: Busithoth
actually, you need to set the desktop to 800x600 first, then the option becomes available in the On-Screen-Display. choose 1:1 pixel and reset resolution, you should be fine.

or... you do it in the game that is already running in 800x600, duh

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: Visual

Originally posted by: Busithoth
actually, you need to set the desktop to 800x600 first, then the option becomes available in the On-Screen-Display. choose 1:1 pixel and reset resolution, you should be fine.

or... you do it in the game that is already running in 800x600, duh

Doing that stretches the image unless you do the other stuff first...

 

[tbooth]

When I still used my X800 XT PE I just used the OSD while the computer was booting to set 1:1. When i got my 7800GTX this didn't work and I had to enable it in the driver settings.

 

[Elfear]

OP- Let us know how it looks when you get it working.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Originally posted by: JBT

Originally posted by: Visual

Originally posted by: Busithoth
actually, you need to set the desktop to 800x600 first, then the option becomes available in the On-Screen-Display. choose 1:1 pixel and reset resolution, you should be fine.

or... you do it in the game that is already running in 800x600, duh

Doing that stretches the image unless you do the other stuff first...

1:1 will show the image small in the middle of the screen. choose aspect and it stretches but doesnt distort the aspect. it doesnt matter when you do it.

 

[nitromullet]

Not sure what kind of video card you have, but if you have a NVIDIA card you can open the NV control panel -> digital flat panel settings -> then check "centered output". This will put whatever size your resolution in the middle of the screen at actual size, and fill in the surrounding area with black. I would imagine that ATI has a similar option...

 

[Jaskalas]

NVIDIA drivers have a menu item just for this, while my comp with a Radeon in it had to have the LCD change the setting.

 

[psihog]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
NVIDIA drivers have a menu item just for this, while my comp with a Radeon in it had to have the LCD change the setting.

I have ATI and 2405 as well. I wonder if there's any performance issue with LCD changing the AR vs doing it from video drivers.

 

[DidlySquat]

Originally posted by: psihog

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
NVIDIA drivers have a menu item just for this, while my comp with a Radeon in it had to have the LCD change the setting.

I have ATI and 2405 as well. I wonder if there's any performance issue with LCD changing the AR vs doing it from video drivers.

OMG

 

[FearoftheNight]

Well the main issue i believe is that i'm using dvi. So my options are greyed out. Any way to get aruond this? I'm using x800xt btw.

 

[FearoftheNight]

Nvm. Got it to work. Question for you fellows though: Assuming I run aspect mode 800x600 should be a perfect image due to the fact its a direct multiple of 1600x1200 right?

 

[FearoftheNight]

Ran fear at 800x600 looks decent. Any idea why I get some fps dips even at this low resolution w/ x800xt and a64 3000?