nVidia Flat Panel Scaling

[Modular]

I have a 6600gt and am running drivers 163.75. My monitor is an Acer AL2051W and is connected via DVI. The issue is that I cannot change the flat panel scaling to anything other than "Use my monitor's built in scaling" in the control panel. The other three settings: Use nVidia scaling, use nVidia scaling with fixed aspect ratio, and do not scale result in a really weird garbled picture.

I had the 94.24 drivers installed last night and they were very sporadic, but would work sometimes on all of these settings. I'd really like to be able to create a custom resolution so that I can drive newer games at lower resolutions but not have to sacrifice my screen real estate/image quality. Any advice/tricks/tweaks would be great.

 

[PingSpike]

Good luck. I gave up on this shit and just bought a 4:3 secondary monitor to play my old games on. (my problem was I needed 4:3 for old games with no widescreen support)

 

[postmortemIA]

Acer monitors have worst scaling support there is.

All options in menu work for me. I can even notice difference between my monitor's scaling and nvidia scaling.

nvidia drivers can't fix Acer's bad firmware.

 

[AzN]

flat panel scaling works. I've got it working on mine with the latest drivers. You just need to patch it.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi...d_adp.php?p_faqid=2064

 

[Modular]

Well, I've had it working on my monitor before, so I don't think that it's the display's fault, but I suppose it could be if there's a problem with EDID. I'm not going to mess with that though. For now I just created custom resolutions that are in 16:10 and let the monitor scale them. I mat revert back to the 94.24's since they did work though.

Azn: That seems to be a patch for the 8800 series, I have a 6600gt, does it still apply to me?

 

[s44]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Good luck. I gave up on this shit and just bought a 4:3 secondary monitor to play my old games on. (my problem was I needed 4:3 for old games with no widescreen support)

A bit drastic, no? You could just get a monitor (all the HPs, for example) that handles 4:3 on its own...

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: Modular
Well, I've had it working on my monitor before, so I don't think that it's the display's fault, but I suppose it could be if there's a problem with EDID. I'm not going to mess with that though. For now I just created custom resolutions that are in 16:10 and let the monitor scale them. I mat revert back to the 94.24's since they did work though.

Azn: That seems to be a patch for the 8800 series, I have a 6600gt, does it still apply to me?

Yes. That's how you get flat panel scaling to work. I have a 8600gts that works after this patch. You should try it if it works for you. I have vista x86 and it works. It fixes panel scaling and overscan issues.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: s44

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Good luck. I gave up on this shit and just bought a 4:3 secondary monitor to play my old games on. (my problem was I needed 4:3 for old games with no widescreen support)

A bit drastic, no? You could just get a monitor (all the HPs, for example) that handles 4:3 on its own...

Not really. When you can pickup a cheap 17", 19" monitor for $20 off craigslist.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: s44

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Good luck. I gave up on this shit and just bought a 4:3 secondary monitor to play my old games on. (my problem was I needed 4:3 for old games with no widescreen support)

A bit drastic, no? You could just get a monitor (all the HPs, for example) that handles 4:3 on its own...

Maybe. But I was going to snag a second monitor anyway. And I'd been screwing with drivers, changing video cards (from ATI since supposedly nvidia was better) and then finding monitor incompatibilities (apparently) and I just got tired of it. I just bought a second monitor because chasing false hope was just turning out to be a waste of time and money.

Unfortunately, if you want a true 4:3 monitor your options are slim. (19" and 17" are 5:4) You've got old ass 12-16ms 15" monitors and what for me was sort of overkill 20" 1400x1050s. I chose the later since new even used 15" monitors sold for around $100 and they had a ton of draw backs (kind of small, almost none had DVI, their response time sort of sucks even on newer ones).