BW, VGA and HDMI

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

May 30 2010 20:09 GMT

Seriously? Any of you guys using widescreen monitors with HDMI, can you play BW fullscreen without any problems at all (half of the HUD doesnt appear to me)?

My specs:
GeForce 8200
Monitor Samsung 20" LCD TV Monitor 10000:0 Aspect Ratio 16: 9

Edit: I forgot to let the VGA part off the title

RaGe

Belgium9953 Posts

May 30 2010 20:13 GMT

You need to change that aspect ratio setting in your nvidia driver, forgot which one it was. Something about when going to non native resolutions, that you want black bars instead of it stretching over your entire display.

Btw 16: 9 is not a resolution, it's an aspect ratio.

Coca Cola Classic

266 Posts

May 30 2010 20:14 GMT

I play brood war fullscreen with no black bars, and no problems at all. I've used both VGA and DVI, but not HDMI

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

May 30 2010 20:18 GMT

On May 31 2010 05:13 RaGe wrote:
You need to change that aspect ratio setting in your nvidia driver, forgot which one it was. Something about when going to non native resolutions, that you want black bars instead of it stretching over your entire display.

Btw 16: 9 is not a resolution, it's an aspect ratio.

Ok, edited to aspect ratio

Yeah, thats what I've been trying to do, but as you see in the picture, nVidia control panel doesnt let me do because my 'current signal', which is HDMI.

Ryps

Romania2740 Posts

May 30 2010 20:25 GMT

What are you trying to connect ? another monitor to your computer?

I've had no problems with HDMI to connect laptop to tv, stacraft worked fine. Just had to switch on the display from windows mobility center.

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

May 30 2010 20:29 GMT

No, its just the monitor that I use.

Dr. Tran

United States125 Posts

May 30 2010 21:01 GMT

Alright under the NVIDIA Control Panel, under the display tab, go to the "Adjust Desktop Size and Position", click "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed-aspect ratio." This will launch SC:BW in 800x600 res (and give you the black bars.)

Hope this helps?

wiesel

Germany727 Posts

May 30 2010 21:21 GMT

Sometimes you can change the aspect ratio in your integrated monitor menu too. Widescreen/Auto.

Caos2

United States1728 Posts

May 30 2010 21:35 GMT

It seems that Nvidia is configured to show no black bars, so it'll crop the top and the bottom of the screen. Somewhere in the drivers settings you can change the way your card will scale.

Look here: Nvidia Control Panel > Adjust desktop size and resolution

Personally, it never worked on my notebook with a GeForce 7800Go, so good luck there. Oh, doesn't your monitor has a 4:3 mode? I have a LG monitor and use it all the time.

T.O.P.

Hong Kong4685 Posts

May 30 2010 22:53 GMT

#10

It seems like if you use a HDMI cable, you need to configure the aspect ratio settings on your TV.

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

May 31 2010 00:39 GMT

#11

well, I appreciate your help guys, but nothing works. I've tried your tip T.O.P, it indeed let me configure the aspect ratio to 4:3 but a good portion of the left side is cropped out in-game, just like it did when it was 16: 9. Whats interesting is that it only crops off when i'm in game, or in the bnet chat rooms, its really weird....

if there was only some magical patch to fix the game to widescreen monitors

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

May 31 2010 01:34 GMT

#12

wow!!! I've found a way to fix it!! i'm gonna share here, in case someone else ends up in the same situation i was in.

I found the solution in this link: http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/showthread.php?t=99054

Apparently renaming this input 'PC' or 'DVI PC' disables all the post processing and puts it into some kind of PC mode. Maybe that willl help.

Seems like if you are using HDMI cable in your samsung monitor, you have to go to the monitor menu (OSD) and rename the Input HDMI to PC or DVI PC. I did rename it to DVI PC and got this working just fine. Ingame you can change the aspect ratio to 4:3 using the OSD so you get the black bars, or you can leave it 16: 9 so the screen stretches.

gg!!!

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