Resolution problems

[Solnx]

Hey guys I have a 17" Monitor, before on XP when i changed resolution it always fit my screen completely now that i have Windows 7, when i change my resolution APART from 1280x1024 which is RECOMENDED, the screen doesn't completely fit the monitor, on every other resolution there is black space on top and bottom and somtimes side of the screen that is unused- anyone know how to fix this problem?

I downloaded the latest drivers from NVIDIA for my 9400 GT graphics card but that didn't help. PLEASE HELP!

 

[edrik]

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[Asmodai]

Perhaps i should've posted here.
Im running A 7 & XP dual boot,i can't get 1024x768 resolution,whenever i switch to that,my picture goes and my monitor says out of signal range.
Im using an ATI Radeon HD2400 Pro.
I've downloaded the driver for it,but it's not working.

 

[Solnx]

Ok i posted some of the stuff I hope this can help u guys in helping me , appreciate it

 

[zigzag3143]

resolution prob

Hey guys I have a 17" Monitor, before on XP when i changed resolution it always fit my screen completely now that i have Windows 7, when i change my resolution APART from 1280x1024 which is RECOMENDED, the screen doesn't completely fit the monitor, on every other resolution there is black space on top and bottom and somtimes side of the screen that is unused- anyone know how to fix this problem?

I downloaded the latest drivers from NVIDIA for my 9400 GT graphics card but that didn't help. PLEASE HELP!

Hey Solnx

Is the monitor WS? what refresh rate are you running at? since 1280x1024 works have you tried something lower to see if it fits? could you tell us waht rates display what problems/ Like 1440x960gives you borders on top and bottom or on the sides or both.

Ken

 

[copernicus]

You monitor is set to 1:1 pixel mapping, and it's respecting it.

 

[zigzag3143]

res prob

Perhaps i should've posted here.
Im running A 7 & XP dual boot,i can't get 1024x768 resolution,whenever i switch to that,my picture goes and my monitor says out of signal range.
Im using an ATI Radeon HD2400 Pro.
I've downloaded the driver for it,but it's not working.

Of courseno driver not working. You have to get the right driver (give us your computer specs and we might be able to help) and install it for the monitor to work.

Waiting for info

Ken

 

[mushroomboy]

I'm guessing it's the refresh rate, a lot of the time higher resolutions lower the refresh rate which causes displacement of the screen. Though I'm just guessing, you could try forcing a res but it's not recommended. I've got a 22" and if I use 1600x1200 it locks at 75, though I know others are supported I don't complain because it looks fine, and every other res below supports 75hz but if i change it the borders become off. I would say get Nvidia, but that's my opinion not yours

 

[Solnx]

You monitor is set to 1:1 pixel mapping, and it's respecting it.



> yea i think that what it is, now i gota figure out how to set it to other pixel mapping, thnx for the help guys appreciate it, unfortunatly im gonna switch back to WIndows XP MCE, i like it better atm :c

 

[Solnx]

thnx

everyone thnx for trying to hep but I no longer need the help since i switched to XP :\

 

[Triplejolt]

I hope this thread isn't closed yet, as I wanted to make some input.

I have the same problem as the threadstarter. Whenever I select lower resolution than recommended (which is at 1920x1200), the black borders appear. I 1st noticed this when launching Fallout3. My laptop don't handle max resolution in games very well, so I wanted to lower it a bit. Which worked nicely in Vista, but apparently not so well in Windows 7. It doesn't matter where or in which game/app I lower the resolution. Black borders appears to fill out the screen whenever the resolution is lower than 1920x1200. Very annoying...

Any thoughts?

 

[Triplejolt]

Resolution problem solved

Solved the black border issue. Installed the Catalyst 8.12 for Vista, and set my desktop properties to "filled" instead of default "centered". Odd that this slipped under the radar of the ATI beta team

Cheers!

 

[fek]

Hi Guys!

I have the same problem but I could not solve it yet. Any res lower than native ends up with a black frame around the screen that annihilates my gaming I have my monitor plugged in through a DVI converter. Maybe my problem is with scaling, but in nVidia's control panel there is no flat panel scaling option furthermore I can't find any driver for my monitor too (because it is a generic PnP, no driver needed). I can't figure out how should I change the monitor's scaling settings. Until now there was no problem with it, these symptoms appeared yesterday so I have no idea what should I do to resolve it.

I would highly appreciate if someone clever helped me! Thanks in advance!

 

[Sassa]

Hi Guys!

I have the same problem but I could not solve it yet. Any res lower than native ends up with a black frame around the screen that annihilates my gaming I have my monitor plugged in through a DVI converter. Maybe my problem is with scaling, but in nVidia's control panel there is no flat panel scaling option furthermore I can't find any driver for my monitor too (because it is a generic PnP, no driver needed). I can't figure out how should I change the monitor's scaling settings. Until now there was no problem with it, these symptoms appeared yesterday so I have no idea what should I do to resolve it.

I would highly appreciate if someone clever helped me! Thanks in advance!

Try to press Ctrl+Alt+F11 while in game...
Screen change into 3 modes, 1 the resolution doesn't use the full screen, 2 the same of the first option and 3 the screen, with any resolution, is in fullscreen.
That worked for me...

 

[fek]

Ctrl+Alt+F11 has no effect on my computer unfortunalety :S Any ideas? If i could make the flat panel scaling tab visible in nvidia cp i think my problem could be solved.

 

[Asmodai]

I found this a little enlightening
Custom PC | The essential read for PC hardware, games and modding
The home page.

 

[Asmodai]

Of courseno driver not working. You have to get the right driver (give us your computer specs and we might be able to help) and install it for the monitor to work.

Waiting for info

Ken

Hi Ken sorry i didn't reply sooner,i've done a few installs of Windows 7 from the 7100 RC X86 to the 7600 RTM X64,which is what im running now.
My motherboard's a Foxconn P4M9007,im using a PCI Express graphics card.
A Radeon HD 2400 Pro,im using a Vista and Win 7 x64 ATI driver that was released yesterday.
I've disabled the driver in safe mode as i wasn't getting any signal to the monitor.
The taskbar looks kind of strange without the aero,but it runs.
I've changed back to XP as the default OS for now.

 

[Oddish]

Same problem here I'm afraid. I've got an Nvidia 8600 GT and my preferred resolution (on my CRT monitor) is 1280x960 but when I switch to that resolution, the resolution doesn't really change, but the viewport gets smaller and there are huge black borders around it. I've just installed the latest drivers (downloaded from Nvidia).

And I can't enlarge the viewport via the monitor controls because even if I max them out, it's not enough to reach the edges of the monitor.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I solved it by adding a custom resolution via the Nvidia Control Panel.

 

[stockhomer]

try this driver for vista 64 Forceware 182.46 - NVISION it solved the problem for me

 

[Triplejolt]

This is a problem in the latest ATI Catalyst 9.8 Beta, even though it has a "greyed" out option to choose between filled and centered screen aspect. Why ATI hasn't addressed this is beyond me, but it's a big annoyance. I'm still using the modified 8.12 Catalyst drivers for my HD2600 XT, to get a decent 1280x800 resolution on which to play games on.