Not really upset, but disappointed in ATI. They got me again. Although
I should probably try their technique, but I dislike having to lose
resolution just because they still can't write their software properly.
The situation is this, put Quake III on your computer and try to run it
on a widescreen monitor. With an ATI card, you get everything stretch
out. The players look like dwarves, short and fat. With Quake III, at
least there is a hack that you can do to get widescreen. If not for the
hack, you can't select a widescreen resolution, the program doesn't know
them. Best you can do if 1280x1024, well, there is one widescreen
resolution that is something like 500 x 250 (yuk). So without the hack
you'd have to adjust the GPU scaling properly, then your 1280x1024 sits
nicely square in the center of the screen. At least you can do that
with Nvidia.
Steve
On 1/2/2011 6:01 AM, Stan Zaske wrote:
Well, not having played any games in native 4:3 for many years I can't
say what the problem is. I do know that in lots of games in "Options",
"Video", "Advanced it lets you set your aspect ratio and resolution.
So, I might be completely wrong (it sounds like you're upset) but
maybe I don't get what the problem is. I never set a games resolution
in Catalyst control center and don't know why you would. I guess the
resident Ati guru has failed you. LOL
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:06:40 -0600, Steve Tomporowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
Completely wrong. The display subsystem decides, based on GPU
scaling, what the display looks like. For ATI, at least the 6850 &
Win7, the default is stretch and there's nothing you can do about it
because the options are grayed out. From ATI, you can only get
scaling if you DO NOT use native resolution.
Check here:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/UnableToSetGPUScaling.aspx
So If I go with a lower resolution than native, I can have scaling,
Whoopie! And here I *thought* ATI had there software act together.
The question here is not whether this is important (it is to me), but
why can Nvidia do it and ATI can't.
On 1/1/2011 3:49 AM, Mini Me wrote:
You set the games resolution in the game and there should be
settings for 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10. Catalyst has nothing to do with
that aspect of gaming. Nice upgrade you have there but I'm holding
out for a 6950 and going to flash it to a 6970.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:07:45 -0600, Steve Tomporowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
I went out and got a 6850 to replace a 9600GT. Installed and
running. Now I have one game which I like to play in its native
4:3 display rather than stretched out over the widescreen, which
makes everything look oval and flat. In the Nvidia control panel,
you can let the adapter choose to display the game in native
resolution, rather than converted and stretched. How does one do
this with ATI? I've been through the catalyst control center and
I'd have to say I'm underwhelmed by the lack of settings.
Thanks...Steve
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