General Help for Windows and Games
MisterWonka:
I'm having a little problem when I play The Sims 2, and almost every other game I own. =(
I recently bought a widescreen monitor, and so my games are all being streched horizontally to fit the new resolution. My video card is an Nvidia GeForce7600GT, and it's latest driver didn't solve the problem.
Does any one have any idea of what should I do?
Beosboxboy, maybe? :angel:
BeosBoxBoy:
MisterWonka - what you are facing here is a bit of a bear to solve. You will need to check in the different games for "widescreen" support. I know TS2 supports widescreens in the PC version, you can select the format and the refresh rate manually in the video options in-game. If you hit the righ combination, it works fine. This may require a trip into advanced DirectX settings to set the monitor refresh rate manually.
Your video card has a max resolution of 2560 x 1600 - but I can't find any details for it on widescreen format support; check your user manuals or product information papers. You don't name the monitor manufacturer and model number, there may be an issue in the monitor that it isn't properly communicating details of its supported resolution sizes and refresh rates to Windows and DirectX (a very common issue in El Cheapo Delux models you find for low prices), this would possibly result in what you describe. In instances like this you usually end up needing a "driver file" for the monitor that contains this information (FYI it isn't really a driver file, just a list of refresh rates and resolution sizes and colour-correcting information in Old High Geekish that Windows and DirectX can understand but would look like gibberish to us regular mortals)
IMPORTANT! IF YOU SET THE REFRESH RATE MANUALLY - make ding-dang-doggity sure you use a refresh rate that won't blow the monitor or video card to Kingdom Come!
You may have to turn on "use square pixels" - a requirement for some specific monitors - usually old and very crappy monitors.
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