Playing adventures in their original resolution

[Wouter]

hi!

I've got a little question. I have an ATI Radeon X800 card. My monitor is a 19inch tft monitor.

I play all my games in the resolution of my monitor (1280*1024) but games like Paradise and Syberia are actually meant to be played at 800*600, the resolution that they were created in.

The image is thus stretched across the entire screen. While this isn't bad at all, i have been told that it is possible to set the graphics card in such a way that it will show the game in 800*600 with black borders around them.

I have searched everywhere in the ATI Control Center (6.5 version catalyst drivers) but haven't found any place where to change this. Can somebody give me a hint.

Also, what way do you prefer: play in the original resolution or the resolution of your tft monitor.

thanks for any help :D

[Wouter]

bump... anyone?

[Grey]

Couldn't you just adjust the vertical display on your monitor so 800x600 shows at its intended size?

You'd have to manually reset your resolution each time you play the game, but that's not a major inconvenience.

[VoodooFX]

If the game was designed to run in resoulution 800*600 it will do so, regardless of what you have set for desktop resolution.

To achieve border effect, you would actually have to run the game in higher resolution then it was intended by the developers, thus creating black border around the game window, but I've never heard of such option before, unless it was a game played through Dosbox, or emulators in general, where this is quite common thing.

[Grey]

Maybe I misunderstood the question. I thought Wouter was telling us that the game wasn't being displayed at a 4:3 aspect ratio.

In any case, you can still achieve the border effect by adjusting the monitor - not the graphics card settings.

[Gordon Bennett]

There might be a way to do it. I have a laptop with an ATI card in it which can shrink the screen.

Go to the display settings, and click the advanced button. I don't remember the exact panel to choose from the window, I believe it should be marked as "displays". In the panel are pictures of the various displays available, each with a button on top. Select panel. This should open a window with a checkbox to scale the display. Uncheck the button.

I don't have it in front of me as reference, so this is going from memory. Nonetheless, if it is there it will be somewhere in the advanced settings avalable through display settings.

[RLacey]

I belive that there's an equivalent option in the nVidia display options, too.