Okay, hold the onions, looks like I ranted much too soon, or I can take
a bow at being sneaky. I tried the ATI method. I set the resolution
back to 1680x1050 to unlock GPU scaling. This is essential what is
happening. You go to resolution, pick any lower resolution than
native. Go and turn on GPU scaling. Now to ungray the options, you
have to click the GPU box, hit apply, then the options are ungrayed.
Now I selected 'Keep Aspect Ratio'. Click Apply/Ok. Now go back and
change resolution back to native. Now everything works and the
selection of 'Keep Aspect Ratio' is still selected.
Now, as to why they make things so difficult, you'd have to ask them. ;-)
Note that when I did go to 1680x1050, the desktop did look noticeably
blurry.
Steve
On 1/2/2011 7:35 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
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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