Widescreen Gaming Forum

You can still do it without the latest drivers. The old drivers can do aspect ratio scaling, you just have to find the option differently.


Right click the desktop and click on "Properties." Then click on the tab labeled "Settings" (where you change resolution). If you look down you will see a button labeled "Advanced" so click on that. Another window will open... one of the tabs should be your nvidia Geforce settings tab. Click on that tab and a list of settings should appear. Click on where it says "flat panel settings" or something similar (can't remember correctly) and there should be a bunch of options. You should select "nvidia aspect ratio scaling."

Also, you may not need to do any of this. You may have buttons on your monitor itself that lets you get into a menu and change scaling options. Since this is an entertainment PC at 1280x800 I'm assuming they programmed aspect scaling into to the monitor itself so that 16:9 movies display correctly (but then again, if you use a software media player the software will maintain the aspect ratio anyway)...

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

The only options I have are as follows:

Color Correction
Overlay Controls

There are no buttons on the monitior at all :cry:

Guess I can't change it after all.

Thanks for all the help anyway guys.

Lea