Make widescreen not widescreen?

[PhantomFelix]

How do I make older games that don't support widescreen res not look like crap on a widescreen monitor? I wouldn't mind some black bars down the side...

 

[WhiteZero]

Check your monitor settings for a 4:3 or dot-by-dot setting.

 

[Trombe]

Should be something similar in the control panel if you have Nvidia.

 

[phide]

For NVIDIA, it's under the Display 'tab', Change Flat Panel Scaling. Set to "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed-aspect ratio" if your monitor doesn't support advanced scaling.

 

[RavenX]

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/index.php that is also a start.

 

[TomGreen321]

Check your monitor. My monitor does it, and it's 100% reliable, where as in driver has issues sometimes(doesn't work, new drivers disable it or screw it up, etc).