Will an LCD that natively does 1280x1024 do...

[SunnyD]

...1280x960 in native as a sort of letterbox format without interpolating and scaling the resolution to fit the screen?

Or better question - anyone know any LCD's that do this?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
...1280x960 in native as a sort of letterbox format without interpolating and scaling the resolution to fit the screen?

Or better question - anyone know any LCD's that do this?

Some LCDs can do this in hardware (there's a setting to tell it whether or not to stretch the signal to fit the native pixels, or to leave the 'extra' pixels as just blank space).

All recent video cards (at least from ATI, NVIDIA, and Matrox) will let you do this through the drivers if the LCD doesn't support it natively. So it's not really a big deal anymore.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: SunnyD
...1280x960 in native as a sort of letterbox format without interpolating and scaling the resolution to fit the screen?

Or better question - anyone know any LCD's that do this?

Some LCDs can do this in hardware (there's a setting to tell it whether or not to stretch the signal to fit the native pixels, or to leave the 'extra' pixels as just blank space).

All recent video cards (at least from ATI, NVIDIA, and Matrox) will let you do this through the drivers if the LCD doesn't support it natively. So it's not really a big deal anymore.

Awesome. I suppose instead of griping about the lack of 1600x1200 panels, I'll just bit the bullet and pay less for better framerates anyway.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

when i play 1280x960 it fills the screen on my 12x10 TFT, if i press auto set up it gets it all squared up and it looks fine

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

sony sdm-hs73, what i have. excellent monitor, but really expensive. my other lower 15inch model was stolen so i got this sdm (17 inch) for free by the insurance company. 17 inc monitors all run 1280 by 1024 natively. so get whatever floats ur boat

 

[kmmatney]

Your video card will have options on how to scale the image. It works especially well with DVI. On Nvidia cards with the DVI connector, you want to choose:

"Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling"

It works great for games at 1280 x 960.

Note: I had to "add" the 1280 x 960 resolution through the video driver. This wasn't a selectable size until I manually added it.

 

[Peter]

You need a panel in which you can turn the integrated scaling off. Also set the graphics card driver's pre-scaling to Off the way kmmatney said, and there you go.