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GeForce 8600T: Issues with new Win7 installation
Hello,
I have just upgraded my computer from XP to Windows 7, and I am having a few problems with the display. I have an Nvidia GeForce 8600T graphics card, with the most current drivers I can find (9.18.13.2049), but I just can't seem to get the display looking right.
I started off at the native screen resolution of 1280x1024, but having been used to a resolution of 1024x768 for years with XP, I found that everything was simply too small on the higher resolution, and I could barely read most of the on screen text. I started fiddling with font sizes, but, as they do, some adjustments affected other things I didn't want them to affect, so I then had to fiddle with my browser fonts, as web pages weren't displaying correctly, and it all ended up a bit of a mess. I also noticed that the text, even with ClearType turned on, looked sort of 'blurry / fuzzy', when enlarged so that I could actually read it, so I ended up resetting all the fonts to default, and starting again.
I have a Xerox 4:3 monitor, which is perfectly suited to my needs, and I don't really have the room for a larger, or widescreen monitor on my computer desk, so I don't really want to change it. However, each of the other available screen resolutions crops the top and bottom of the screen, as they are presumably suited to widescreen displays, and that really isn't what I want. I have therefore, reverted to my old 1024x768 resolution, which is great, as I can read the text, and everything looks familiar again (is it just me, or do we all try to make a new operating system look like the old one? ), however, the aspect ratio of the display is no longer correct and true. What I mean is, a circle looks slightly vertically egg shaped, and a square looks slightly vertically rectangular.
I have been through the settings on my monitor, and although there are positional adjustments (move left, right, up and down), there is no 'height' adjustment, just one for 'width', which doesn't help, as stretching the width to make a circle correctly round, causes the sides of the display to overreach the edges of the screen. Needless to say, this is quite an irritating issue, because now I've noticed it, I keep looking for it.
I have to say, this has probably been the most challenging upgrade I have ever done, in about 14 years of using home computers. I have made self builds for myself, and other people, and have reinstalled, or upgraded operating systems many times, but with this one, well, I won't bore you with the list of things that have gone wrong, but nothing has seemed straightforward, and it's all taken far too long. This is the last of the issues I've been unable to solve, so I hope I've explained the situation clearly, and if anyone has any ideas on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Simon.