Weird situation with black bars on LCD

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dennisjai

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Alright guys, i'm puzzled at this myself, let's see if anyone can help me out.

I have a 21.5" eMachine E211H bmd LCD @ 1920x1080 native resolution.

This is obviously a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor. I'm going to be as detailed as possible so I'll lay out some facts below.

16:9 ratio, 1920/1080 = 1.77~
16:9 ratio, 1776/1000 = 1.77~
16:10 ratio, 1680/1050 = 1.6
16:10 ratio, 1280/800 = 1.6
16:9 ratio, 1280/720 = 1.77~

So whenever I try to scale my resolution down on desktop OR games using the 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions, I get black bars around my monitor on all 4 sides.

However, the weird thing is whenever I use a 16:10 aspect ratio resolution, desktop/games stretches out and has no black bars.

Keep in mind my native aspect ratio is 16:9, so this is why i'm so confused. Can anyone shed some light on this situation? Thanks.
 
You are doing 1:1 pixel mapping on the 16:9 resolutions, and not doing 1:1 pixel mapping on the 16:10 resolutions. What video card are you using? This is probably a setting you need to resolve in your video card drivers.
 
yeah the 16:9 resolutions should be stretched out. i'm using an ATi 4200 IGP, i've checked all settings.
 
In CCC, Desktop and Displays
Select the small monitor icon at the bottom and right click, configure.
You will now get a new menu that you probably havent seen before to set the scaling options.

In the first tab 'Attributes', tick the box to enable GPU scaling, that should do it.
In the 'Scaling' tab, make sure overscan is set to look as clear as possible and it fills the screen. Make sure you are running native res when you do this.
 
Nenu said:
In CCC, Desktop and Displays
Select the small monitor icon at the bottom and right click, configure.
You will now get a new menu that you probably havent seen before to set the scaling options.

In the first tab 'Attributes', tick the box to enable GPU scaling, that should do it.
In the 'Scaling' tab, make sure overscan is set to look as clear as possible and it fills the screen. Make sure you are running native res when you do this.
Click to expand...

Good info, but what happens when the "image scaling" section is grayed out?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/dennisjai/CCC.jpg

thanks for the help so far guys.
 
Yeah, I meant to add, GPU image scaling is only needed when not using native res (your problem), so it cant be set when using native res.
 
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