nvidia scaling or display scaling?

GMcDougal

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i picked up a samsung 220wm 22 inch monitor on BF. what would be the best scaling for this monitor? display or nvidia scaling? i have a bfg 7800gt videocard.
 
i picked up a samsung 220wm 22 inch monitor on BF. what would be the best scaling for this monitor? display or nvidia scaling? i have a bfg 7800gt videocard.

I turned scaling off. I'd much rather see stuff nice and sharp in exact pixels than stretched over the screen.
 
Try them both and see which you like better. Personally, I think the NVidia scaling works much better than the display scaling - partly because it looks much better (on my setup anyway) and also because you can fix the aspect ratio (which my monitor can't do).

Of course, it's best to run at native resolution whenever possible.
 
correct me if i'm wrong, but you're wondering if letting the video card do the stretching or letting the monitor do it is better - i'm sure you know that it can also scale it with keeping an aspect ratio as well as keeping the resolution so that you get a smaller picture on your native...

personally i can't find a difference between the nvidia scaling and the monitor scaling if the above is what you're referring to. just give them both a shot and see if you can find a difference, i can't.
 
unfortunately NVIDIA scaling doesn't work under Vista with recent drivers... lazy NVIDIA programmers!
 
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