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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: 1Way> on June 11, 2007, 03:55:50 PM
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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>:cool:
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This should be a sticky IMO
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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?! :t
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My 84.66 drivers for XP have this. Is this a feature that wasn't available for Vista users or something?
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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