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| Nvidia 4:3 tweak for widescreen monitors[message #234451]
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Mon, 05 October 2009 12:14 
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 hal900x |
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Registered:August 2009 |
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Nvidia drivers used to have an option to force scaling to a fixed aspect ratio on the GPU, overriding the scaler in your widescreen monitor and letting you play your 4:3 games in their original aspect, with black bars on either side in fullscreen mode. This option was buggy as hell, rarely worked, and was finally removed in an acknowledgment of failure by Nvidia.
I searched and searched for tricks to make this driver option work, and failed miserably until now. I just found a set of strings, to be entered into the "Run" box on your Start Menu, which correspond to the four scaling options that used to exist. Now, I don't know if you need to run an older Nvidia driver (one that shows the aforementioned option) for this to work. Mine did have them, and I believe it's 182.08.
In the absence of a widescreen patch, I am overjoyed at finally playing Jagged Alliance 2 unstretched on my widescreen monitor. Here's the strings if you want to try it. I forget which string corresponds to which of the 4 scaling options, but I believe the last one (DA 5) worked for me. They are: Nvidia Scaling, Nvidia Scaling with Fixed Aspect (the one you want), Display Scaling, No Scaling.
rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll,dtcfg setscaling 0 DA 1
rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll,dtcfg setscaling 0 DA 2
rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll,dtcfg setscaling 0 DA 3
rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll,dtcfg setscaling 0 DA 5
I'd be interested to know if anyone else is able to get this to work.
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