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I've been thinking of picking up the viewsonic va1912w (native res, 1440x900) but I'm concerned about games that don't work with its native res. I don't mind chopping of the sides and running 1200x900 in any game that can support it...which I think should be a trivial enough matter. Just set it for 1:1 scaling and set the game resolution to 1200x900, through .ini tweaking if necessary.
But older games...like starcraft only run one resolution, 640x480. I'd want to scale this up to fit the 1200x900 space...maintaining aspect ratio AND taking up as much monitor as possible. If they look a little funky because of the scaling...well no big deal. The games that are stuck at that res usually look kind of bad these days anyway. But I don't want to play them on a 1:1 micro screen. Why buy a new monitor and take a step backwards?
I've been reading the widescreengaming forums which have left me as confused as when I started. (WTF is up with so many forums not having a search function anyway? How am I suppose to find anything?) It seems only ATI cards used in notebooks have this option in the driver. Nvidia drivers have had them with the 6 series...but there's also a bunch of people using 7 series parts that can't get any scaling to work anymore.
But can the monitor just do this task? It seems like this viewsonic doesn't have the option from what I've gathered. Why the hell not? Can anyone recommend a 1440x900 LCD that does?
But older games...like starcraft only run one resolution, 640x480. I'd want to scale this up to fit the 1200x900 space...maintaining aspect ratio AND taking up as much monitor as possible. If they look a little funky because of the scaling...well no big deal. The games that are stuck at that res usually look kind of bad these days anyway. But I don't want to play them on a 1:1 micro screen. Why buy a new monitor and take a step backwards?
I've been reading the widescreengaming forums which have left me as confused as when I started. (WTF is up with so many forums not having a search function anyway? How am I suppose to find anything?) It seems only ATI cards used in notebooks have this option in the driver. Nvidia drivers have had them with the 6 series...but there's also a bunch of people using 7 series parts that can't get any scaling to work anymore.
But can the monitor just do this task? It seems like this viewsonic doesn't have the option from what I've gathered. Why the hell not? Can anyone recommend a 1440x900 LCD that does?
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