Wide Screen Scaling NVidia Work Around

[1Way>]

GigaByte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 mobo bios F3
EVGA 8800 GTX SLI bios 60.80.0e.00.b1
Quad Core proc
4 GB OCZ Flex 9200
Vista 32 Ultimate

This may or may not be of interest to some....but until now I was unable to force the monitor/hardware to display a vertical letter box cropping...in other words force the hardware to run at 4:3 and crop the left and right of the monitor.

The issue was losing the top and bottom of the view...which cropped out some of the dashboard and view when running a widescreen monitor in its native resolution.

I just downloaded the latest drivers from NVidia (release date 6/1/2007) for Vista 32 and I can now force the computer to run in a 4 x 3 mode.

In the new driver NVidia control panel I simply chose the option to 'use Nvidia scaling with fixed aspect ratio' and chose 1600 x 1200 as the display resolution.

Presto Chango....now the game appears as it was intended with full fields of view, and I can finally see the bottom of the dashboard and full range of upward view...

Regards,

1WaY>

[DREDIOCK]

This should be a sticky IMO

[Fulmar]

Interesting.  Do you know do the new drivers for XP do the same?  The cut off vertical doesn't bother at all.  I have keys bound to view the gauges if I need them, but who needs stinkin gauges?!

[hubsonfire]

My 84.66 drivers for XP have this. Is this a feature that wasn't available for Vista users or something?

[1Way>]

Yes this was a Vista issue.

Until the recent driver release the 4x3 option was not stable or did not work.

It works superb now.

oneway