• Setting games to run with borders instead of stretching.
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I'm trying to run a game at a lower resolution so that I can record with fraps, but I hate having to play with the game scaled up to fill the screen. I'm sure that there used to be an option in the nVidia Control Panel (using an 8800 GT) that let you change this but I can't find it anywhere. I've also looked in the Windows (7) Display settings. Could someone please advise me?
do you mean windowed? create a shortcut to the .exe you're using, right click the shortcut, click properties, go to target path and type -win after the quotes
Many games, for instance Borderlands, let you go into windowed mode simply by pressing Alt+Enter. Others, like Source games (HL2, GMod, CSS) have it in the video settings. But a few games require you to enter console commands to do it. For COD4, type "r_fullscreen 0" then "vid_restart" to go into windowed mode. I'm not sure of other games. You can probably just use Google for them.
No, I mean fullscreen, but with borders to compensate for the lower resolution. I know how to do windowed, but some games seem to run slower in windowed mode. I'm sure I've done it before.
I don't think you can unless you have a laptop that allows you to disable screen stretching in the BIOS.
Come to think of it, I think that every time I've used this feature has been on a laptop... damn. Thanks anyway.
It needs to be in the nvidia control panel, i'm not exactly sure but it's probably under display options, try looking around a bit. When i had a 7900gs i know there were 4 different settings: display's built in scaling, no scaling, standard scaling on the gpu, scaling on the gpu with original aspect ratio. What the hell, it's gone from my catalyst control center too, i just checked it. :tinfoil: Why the hell did they have to change the layout, the old one was better. edit: nevermind, found it
I think OP is reffering to 1:1 pixel mapping?
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