08-14-2009, 04:57 AM
Quote:Any LCD can be set to use fixed aspect ratios with nVidia drivers, as long as you are connected using a DVI or HDMI cable. You have to go into the nVidia control panel and set the display as "digital", then you can use whatever fixed ratio you want. If you are connected with a VGA cable, you cannot do this.
My 22" LCD does not natively support anything of the sort, but I can play Diablo 2 at 800x600 with the black bars.
What you say is precisely what has me puzzled. That Viewsonic VA1912wb (once my wife's) referenced above has a digital display and I hooked it to my computer with a DVI cable, went into the nvidia control panel and selected fixed aspect ratio but it just distorted the display of Diablo 2 even more. Same with the Hewlitt Packard I bought to replace the broken Samsung. I found a thread where many others were having the same sort of problems with that particular Viewsonic. Some blamed the monitor and some the Nvidia drivers but no one had a solution which would work for me, including some involved workaround using the custom resolution feature. The Hewlitt packard monitor would produce black bars but they were so narrow as to be useless. Therefore, before buying another monitor I figured I should try to be certain it would produce the pillard effect I want. In the meantime, it is back to my old Nokia monitor (which I think was made circa 1996).
I am going to navigate through the site Wyrm suggested and see what I can find.
Thanks to both of you for your input.