Widescreen Gaming Forum

[quote]Works fine with DVI for me. I'm using a Radeon X1900XT and Viewsonic VX2025WM, BTW.
so in DVI mode you have three scaling options in your CCC?

1) "scale image to full panel size"
2) "centered timings"
3) "scale image - maintain aspect ratio"

How many/which options do you have ...

[quote]I'm playing around with the video card settings, but I have an ATI card. Anyone familiar with ATI's Catalyst Control Center?

I'll keep tinkering...

yes the ATI control panel has an option to center the screen on resolutions not native to the LCD

Hmm, Are you sure?
Since ...

:welcome Easiest way to use black bars is to get a screen that support scaling in OSD (on screen display). You can then choose there what to scale regardless of GFX card.
Its not true that some games doesn't work with black bars at all, though its true that avoiding stretching on some LCD's can ...

Hi. just joined the forums since Im thinking of buying a Wide Screen monitor for my computersystem that Ill be buying shortly...

If I buy a Wide Screen monitor I want to be able to use black bars instead of having the screen streched in games that does not support wide screen.

So Im going ...