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Looks like you have to do it Tanuki, enjoy :D

I turned off multi GPU and it made no difference, anyway, here is the screen caps
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I have the latest drivers for my card, running Windows XP
The gif that didn't work is just the rest of the options in the nVidia menu
I went into the graphics, and it fixes the black problem when I change it down to a colour depth of 16 bit and turn on Software Transparent BLT and/or Software ...

This is possibly in the wrong category, please move if it is
Anyway
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The gif's are the graphics settings that nVidia control panel lets you change
The png's below are the ...

Dude, Vista is shiiit
Keep XP but download the latest drivers from the nVidia website for your card, and the nVidia Control Panel it installs, will have these scaling options in it.

You can't not check a box, as it is the circular boxes, which means one of them MUST be checked, Do Not Scale, scales it to the correct aspect ratio, so does the nVidia fixed aspect ratio option, but on my screen anyway, the nVidia option causes it to blur around things that should be crisp like ...

AWESOME!!!
But for future reference, don't select "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed-aspect ratio", just select "Do not scale" the NVIDIA option causes it to go blurry for some reason, but Do not scale, shrinks it down so theres small black bars at the top as well, but its crisp
lol thanks :D

Oops, lol I posted it quickly, yeah the question is, how do I force the black bars on the sides of the screens?

Hey, I have the latest drivers for my 8800 GTS and people have been saying that with the latest nVidia control panel, you can force the screen to put in black bars at the side for 4:3 resolutions or something, like what happens on a widescreen TV when you watch different ratio movies.
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