As most of you already know, the Viewsonic vx2265wm is a widescreen monitor, meaning that if you wish to play Quake at 4:3, the image needs to be scaled down.
Usually this may be achieved either by the in-built monitor scaler (accessible through the monitor menu) or through the graphics card driver.
I can't really speak about ATI drivers, although I did come across a few horror stories, however nVidia drivers are a mess when it comes to scaling. Some work, most don't, you really don't know what's going to happen in the next update.
Well thank God for that in-built scale you'd say. No. The Viewsonic's in-built scaler DOESN'T work on 120hz. It works with any other refresh rate but not 120hz. The menu option is just greyed out, meaning that if you're not lucky with the nVidia drivers you're, well, fucked.
For your information, the last driver I've tried that had no scaling problems whatsoever was 174.x (too bad it wouldn't support my newer graphics card).
Usually this may be achieved either by the in-built monitor scaler (accessible through the monitor menu) or through the graphics card driver.
I can't really speak about ATI drivers, although I did come across a few horror stories, however nVidia drivers are a mess when it comes to scaling. Some work, most don't, you really don't know what's going to happen in the next update.
Well thank God for that in-built scale you'd say. No. The Viewsonic's in-built scaler DOESN'T work on 120hz. It works with any other refresh rate but not 120hz. The menu option is just greyed out, meaning that if you're not lucky with the nVidia drivers you're, well, fucked.
For your information, the last driver I've tried that had no scaling problems whatsoever was 174.x (too bad it wouldn't support my newer graphics card).
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