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Is 1600x1200 close enough?

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I have a 22" widescreen monitor and I have played a few games with 1680x1050 resolution. Now I am installing many of my old games but doesnt have a 1680x1050, but instead 1600x1200, much older games dont have both but I can window those. Is 1600x1200 close enought for best resolution? I really like the way Vista64 has been working on my games so far. I am currently using Evga 8800GT AKIMBO card. Thanks
 
It is highly doubtful that your monitor would be able to run at 1600x1200, unless your monitor has some secret scale-down mojo that every other 20/22" widescreen monitor doesn't have. Your next best bet would be to run them at 1280x1024 and, if you are using a DVI cable, select "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed-aspect ratio" in the flat panel scaling section of the NVIDIA control panel.
 
Mark_Warner said:
It is highly doubtful that your monitor would be able to run at 1600x1200, unless your monitor has some secret scale-down mojo that every other 20/22" widescreen monitor doesn't have. Your next best bet would be to run them at 1280x1024 and, if you are using a DVI cable, select "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed-aspect ratio" in the flat panel scaling section of the NVIDIA control panel.
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I've seen games offer 1600x1200 even though my monitor is 1680x1050. It just scales it, still looks like crap.
 
www.widescreengamingforum.com has a wiki for getting a whole bunch of older games to support your resolution, maybe the games you're playing will be there.

I've had to edit in my own resolution (1680x1050) into a bunch of games including Doom 3 + Exp, Sims 2 (dont laugh, for the gf haha), etc
 
i tried to run RTCW @ 16x12 on my native 1680x1050 LCD...big problems. the screen went black but the game was still active. i had to hard restart and then every time i tried to run RTCW i got an error and the game wouldn't load. ended up having to reinstall and select the next resolution that would work (1280x1024). might just be that game, so ymmv. i now avoid trying to run any resolution above 1050.
 
1680x1050 is the widescreen version of 1280x1024.
1920x1200 is the widescreen version of 1600x1200.
If you want closest 1:1 pixel ratio go with 1280x1024, displaying higher resolution than your equipment supports will make the image look really bad. Easiest way to test it out is to get a 1600x1200 wallpaper to see what it looks like on your screen.
 
Stop by widescreengamingforum and see if theres a widescreen fix for it, most of the time you can set custom resolutions in the cfg or ini files.

If not, the next best thing is to select a resolution which fits within 1680x1050, probably 1280x960 is the next 4:3 screensize down, and simply enable monitor scaling in the video drivers to scale to fit the screen but maintain aspect ratio so it doesn't stretch.
 
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