BlueMak

I will try to lower my resolution to test it. I currently use 1920x1200.

Why do you play R6Vegas at 1600x900? and why black bars? The latest official patch fixes the widescreen support.

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slickric21

R6 VEGAS offically only supports up to 1600x900 as a widescreen resolution.

You can use the Squ1zzy patch from here Rainbow Six: Vegas - WSGFWiki
which allows any res to be used including 1680x1050, but there is some anomolies when zooming in, nightvison etc etc. Nothing drastic though.

So that is part of the reason,

the other is if I use 1600x900 and high settings I can force 2xAA & 8xAF - and play smoothly on any level.
If I use 1680x1050 I have to sacrifice the AA filtering otherwise I drop below 30fps in some areas.

As for BF2 there is no offical widescreen support to I use 1400x1050 and have black bars on the side (as opposed to stretching the screen).

PS I've just enabled the old control panel, using 163.44 and now even 1400x1050 centres correctly (after the regfix) !!!!

Good luck

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BlueMak

slickric21, do yourself a favour, go and download the latest OFFICIAL PATCH. I have a 1920x1200 and it supports it perfectly. Widescreen and all...

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BlueMak

Doesn't work.

In fact I just noticed something. It is two options that don't work no matter what. nvidia correct aspect scaling and no scaling.

I have tried several times the enable thingy exe that puts that line in the registry. I even checked the registry if it has created the key, and it has...
Oh well.

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"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,
You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis

slickric21

Sorry I should have been clearer - on my system the Official Patch v1.5 only allows me to use 1600x900, as my screen only goes up to 1680x1050 - which v1.5 doesn't support yet (probably being a console port).

Its a shame the registry.exe doesn't work for you, and frustrating aswell I bet.
Sorry to lead you on a goose chase.

Lets hope nvidia finally fix it at some point soon.

Back to the topic of theses drivers 163.44 - they seem to be running fine for me on XP in
BF2, Dirt, Graw & R6 Vegas.

I've enabled the old control panel and its working well - no issues yet.

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BlueMak

The are good drivers speed wise, no question about it.

How have you enabled toe old control panel? I read once about a registry "hack" to do it, but I prefer to do it only if I can change it easily back to normal.


And don't worry, you tried to help me, thank you.

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You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis

slickric21

By using these handy little reg tweaks - one to enable old, the other to enable the new one (eg revert back)
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Have to use rapidshare as I can't post attachments on here.

I originally got them from here.............
[TWEAK] Enable old NVIDIA Control Panel in new ForceWare drivers (>95 series?) - nVision

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BlueMak

Interesting, I used it for few min, but couldn't find any reason to not return to the new ones. Glad that people that like it can use it.

And yes, I did try to change the scaling options, same results.


Any idea when the next full version of drivers for XP will be out?

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You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis

Zardon

unfortunately not, I think most companies are concentrating on vista now however.

Chaos

That's sad since so few are taking the jump to Vista unless they are forced for one reason or another

BlueMak

I hope that is not the case. I can't afford to buy Vista here, they are way way way too expensive in Greece.

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"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,
You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis