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The NVIDIA control panel seems to be pretty worthless here.

The monitor in question is a 22" Acer AL2223W 5ms DVI, 1680x1050 @ 60Hz.
I want to be able to run a game at 1024x768 and have it centered on the screen as opposed to stretched.

The options in the NVIDIA control panel under "Digital Flat Panel Settings" are:
[*:22053cb927]Display adapter scaling
[*:22053cb927]Centered output
[*:22053cb927]Monitor scaling
[*:22053cb927]Fixed aspect ratio scaling

I imagine "Centered output" is what I want, however I cannot choose anything other than Monitor Scaling.

I'm using ForceWare version: 93.71 on a BFG NVIDIA 7600GT.

Any help?

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Well I don't have an answer for ya.. but I got a 23" wide-screen and I'm playing a lot of games stretched out as well.. Best of luck finding an answer

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I really don't think there's a fix for this. I found posts on forums from January 2006 that were complaining about this same thing.

I ordered a $143 X1950Pro off Newegg and will eBay the 7600GT.

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I'm not sure thats the answer. I have a 17" dell 1280x1024 Widescreen lcd hdtv, with dvi. I used as my pc monitor through college. (Aside, I jumped on the widescreen thing a bit before it became totally mainstream and have loved it ever since.)

Whenever non-native resolution came through (ie 1024x768) it would letterbox it, trimming the edges preserving the aspect ratio.

Now I got a 22" viewsonic and it stretches non-native res to fill the screen. Just like yours. Its my belief its a monitor thing. Maybe play around with the monitor settings?

Oh yea, this was with x850xt, and previously 9600xt, and previously gf440mx.

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I don't have wide screen regularly hooked up, since that is a projector. I vaguely remember having the option on 4:3 resolutions available for output from the Display settings. I did have to change the settings on the projector to keep it from stretching it to wide screen. There might be a monitor setting.

I had a previous widesceen projector that also had an RGB input. This automatically displayed 4:3 correctly, and IMO converted the the resolution differences better via RGB than if it was the card tried to do those resolutions via DVI, ie any text was much more readable.

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Yeah I heard people with widescreen Viewsonic monitors had no issue as they could use the monitor controls to display 1024x768 w/o stretching. I'll check out the Acer controls, but I'm not very hopeful.

It seems the more expensive widescreens have less issues in this category.
But at $289 for a 22", you can't go wrong.

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I would also give the RGB a try. At 1024 x 768 there is no bandwidth issue, and any D/A-A/D conversion shouldn't really effect it. Even on some lower end LCD monitors (all 4:3) I have seen a better non native image via RGB than with DVI for both Nvidia and ATI cards.

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