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Keeping 4:3 aspect ratio in games on wide resolutions?

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xXDracoXx   06-29-2008 at 04:41:02 AM

Hello,

I would like to play an older game(Warcraft 3) on a widescreen monitor, but the image gets stretched. I have seen the option on nVidia cards to keep a game's native aspect ratio. This makes appropriate black borders on either side of the game to keep it 4:3 on a 16:10 monitor.

Now here is my question: How do you do this with ATI cards? I can't seem to find an option for it.

Thanks.

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Asian PingPong   06-29-2008 at 05:09:06 AM
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Also, I found the option in my nvidia card's driver menu, but it doesn't work. My vx1940w monitor keeps stretching it no matter what I set in the drivers. Any way to make this work without having to use my monitor's osd options every time I want to play WC3.

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thogrom   06-29-2008 at 05:10:36 AM
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my question is how do you do it on nvidia cards?

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Asian PingPong   06-29-2008 at 05:23:16 AM
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Nvidia control panel->display->change flat panel scaling

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Bronze Graphics badge EXT64   06-29-2008 at 01:11:38 PM
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On my widescreen laptop I've done it and it works. Go to:

CCC>>Notebook Panel Properties>>Attributes>>Panel Settings>>Scale Image - Maintain Aspect Ratio

That works for me. Though, because this is a laptop it has a weird version of CCC, so I don't know if that will work for everyone.

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