Possible to get a 16:10 monitor to display only 1600x1200 pixels

[Thug Esquire]

I have a 2405FPW and I'd like to have a custom resolution that only draws 1600x1200 pixels without stretching them across the screen. In other words, I want a 1600x1200 resolution box drawn on the display (left, right, or center) and I want everything to be contained within that. In essence, I'm talking about vertical letterboxing. Is this possible?

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: Thug Esquire
I have a 2405FPW and I'd like to have a custom resolution that only draws 1600x1200 pixels without stretching them across the screen. In other words, I want a 1600x1200 resolution box drawn on the display (left, right, or center) and I want everything to be contained within that. In essence, I'm talking about vertical letterboxing. Is this possible?

If you disable scaling, you can run 1600 X 1200. Keep in mind there will be about 120 pixels on top on top and bottom where it will be "black" and then on the sides for I think, 160? pixels. This will reslut in the perfect natively crisp image, but you do loose screen size for it.

Edit ** You can disable scaling in the control panel for your video card. I know my ATI powered laptop was able to do that, and my nVidia 7800 GTX can also do this.

 

[Thug Esquire]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777If you disable scaling, you can run 1600 X 1200. Keep in mind there will be about 120 pixels on top on top and bottom where it will be "black" and then on the sides for I think, 160? pixels. This will reslut in the perfect natively crisp image, but you do loose screen size for it.

That'd be fine, except that the 2405FPW runs 1920x1200 natively, so 1600x1200 would just have black on the left and right (if the box is in the middle). How do I disable scaling?

 

[Accord99]

For the 2405FPW, you should only get bars on the left and right for 1600x1200. There's an option on the 2405FPW's menu to do, I'm not at a 2405FPW but I believe the option was "1:1" or something like that (other options included "Aspect"). It worked for me on games that only supported 1600x1200 resolutions.

 

[Thug Esquire]

Thanks so much for the help! I actually just used the nVidia control panel to change the scaling mode to "centered" rather than scaled.

Thanks so much!!!

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: Thug Esquire

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777If you disable scaling, you can run 1600 X 1200. Keep in mind there will be about 120 pixels on top on top and bottom where it will be "black" and then on the sides for I think, 160? pixels. This will reslut in the perfect natively crisp image, but you do loose screen size for it.

That'd be fine, except that the 2405FPW runs 1920x1200 natively, so 1600x1200 would just have black on the left and right (if the box is in the middle). How do I disable scaling?

Gosh, I was almost certain that the 2405 FPW ran 1440 vertical lines of resolution... I keep making that mistake. But in any case, glad you figured out how to disable scaling

 

[sxr7171]

NM seems already taken care of.