CounterStrike:Source Resolution problem

[matt332]

before installing windows7 i was on xp and using the resolution Normal (4:3) on 800 x 600

now when i use 800 x 600 i get black strips up the side of the screen,

ive looked into this and found a few solutions with the flat panel scaling
although i dont have this in my nvidia control panel under display

i have the latest drivers for my card which is an 8600 GT

PLEASE HELP!!

 

[Sassa]

What is your display resolution?

 

[matt332]

1400 x 900

yet on xp this worked fine with 800 x 600 ingame :/

 

[TGSoldier]

And you don't want to raise the resolution up one becauuuuseeeee ?

 

[Sassa]

When you are in video settings choose widescreen 16:10 (on the right side) click apply, and then choose resolution (on the left)...
Something like that...

 

[matt332]

you dont understand i want to run in (4:3) 800x600 ingame thats what im used to and i play better in that resolution and i want to get that so its on full screen not with these black boarders making the screen smaller

 

[matt332]

And you don't want to raise the resolution up one becauuuuseeeee ?

read my question again i diddnt ask for opinions i just want to get it working on (4:3)

 

[TGSoldier]

You're on a wide screen monitor.. Running 4:3 ratio.. @ 800x600 resolution and complaining about black lines?

Only thing I could see is to run it 16:9

 

[TGSoldier]

read my question again i diddnt ask for opinions i just want to get it working on (4:3)

A simple answer to this would of been because that's what you are accustom too.. No need for all the attitude.. Kkthnx..

Good luck

 

[matt332]

You're on a wide screen monitor.. Running 4:3 ratio.. @ 800x600 resolution and complaining about black lines?

Only thing I could see is to run it 16:9

read again i said on xp i could run at 4:3 on my widescreen moniter im more comfortable with, so you either know how to fix or dont

 

[TGSoldier]

I don't.

Bye.

 

[matt332]

i hardly do have to live with that because i know people who have CS:S working on that res on the same size moniter as me just need a fix not other peoples opinions thanks

 

[Sassa]

you dont understand i want to run in (4:3) 800x600 ingame thats what im used to and i play better in that resolution and i want to get that so its on full screen not with these black boarders making the screen smaller

read my question again i diddnt ask for opinions i just want to get it working on (4:3)

read again i said on xp i could run at 4:3 on my widescreen moniter because thats what higher calibure players use on CS:S and im more comfortable with, so you either know how to fix or dont

This is not XP...
I think that you will have to live with black borders...

 

[matt332]

i mean i know people running under windows7 64bit like me with that res just want to fix

 

[TGSoldier]

Sassa.. Please stand by for flame.. He DOES NOT want your opinion! He wants you to fix it!

 

[TGSoldier]

i mean i know people running under windows7 64bit like me with that res just want to fix

Go ask them what they did


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[matt332]

i diddnt say that had a problem in the first place?

and im not flaming if i wanted opinions on this i could of asked the non experts

 

[Sassa]

Sassa.. Please stand by for flame.. He DOES NOT want your opinion! He wants you to fix it!

Go ask them what they did


edit! 500 posts

:roflmao:

 

[icoola77]

First of all, i see you didn't bother to fill in your computer specs so how do you expect people to help you solve your problems when we do not know which components you have.

Second, don't tell me you have a highr res monitor and you still insist on playing at such a low resoulution just because you heard that supposedly all the l33t kids play in that resolution?

Third, you should know that unless you actually have a really slow and old graphics card, when playing CSS at low resolutions, the game will rely more heavily on the CPU ( and may I remind you that CSS is still not optimised for multicore CPUs, so even though people have 2 or 4 core processors, the game only uses 1 core ) then on the graphics card. So if you have a good graphics card, playing in higher resolutions may actually give you better fps, not to mention that it will save your eyesight from looking at ugly pixelated images. LCD screens have a native resoultion, and the image is best at that resolution ( sharp,crisp and clear ) , if you lower the resolution from this native one, the image quality and sharpness will suffer the lower the resolution especially if it is stretched across the whole screen, the image becomes blurry.

This is where the black bars come into play.
Rather than stretching the low res image across the whole screen, it shows the image in its native resolution by covering the rest of the screen with black bars, thus everything still stays perfectly sharp and clear. This is practically the same as playing the game at that lower resolution but in windowed mode, only in windowed mode you also see the rest of windows interface around the game window, whereas with black bars you only see the game.

 

[matt332]

did i say i used it to boost fps? no i diddn't i use it because im comfortable with it being using it for over 2 years so why would i change :sarc: personal preference not a fan boy

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40Ghz

Installed Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB

System type : 64bit

GfxCard : XFX 8600GT 512MB:<

MotherBoard : XFX nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard

something which may help im not sure my graphics driver cd doesnt work on windows 7 it just says this is not an xfx official product or something along the lines of that, and im not sure if its that :?

would appreciate any advice sorry for flamewars