07-22-2011, 11:58 PM
Quote:Can't you achieve the same just by setting the appropriate compatibility settings for each game?Apparently cannot achieve exactly the same. That’s because of updating settings for direct draw by other applications. Usually it is explorer. Also alt-tabbing is changing setting, which was set previously to 256 by compatibility setting (to a messy one).
I got even an interesting story about it.
My monitor is 16:9, so it was ok for me to just adjust ratio to 4:3 on my monitor settings (signal from card was not changed) just to play with correct aspect ratio, because I do not like unnaturally distended video, however, a new NVidia drivers which I installed introduced automatically detecting aspect ratio of full screen application, so I no longer had to readjust it on my monitor, but also some bad 'feature' came with that: it also updated compatibility color settings I used for a game (to a messy one). Every time game was run.
So I restored old drivers back, to have possibility to play with compatibility settings on. And I didn't upgraded drivers until this wonderful solution came from Blizzard.
So again - answer is - not. Compatibility settings (from properties) do not work the same way. First - those settings could be easily updated by other applications (mostly by explorer but also or other ones). Second - alt-tab is giving mess again. Third - it’s not even working at all with some graphic card drivers which are adjusting aspect ratio to game's ratio.