Resolutions with my Samsung 2253BW

OK guys, here's another one. It's not really a problem. well sort of, but I'm not sure if it's just that this monitor is made different. or what. but here it goes.

My old Samsung 226BW played all my games great. looks great. and when I load a game it almost always, always loads at 1024x768 I think. or something like that. but not native.

either way, all the games were still at fullscreen. and I'd be able to play where it's at, or if needed I could go higher, and sometimes I'd just go native res.

But I'm now going to probably use this new 2253BW for my main monitor, and the 226BW as my second. But last night I loaded up HL2, and no matter what res it wasn't fullscreen. it had black bars about an inch and a half on both sides of screen. not sure why. Same with Crysis, the only way to get complete fullscreen on Crysis was go Native res of 1680x1050
then I had fullscreen, but that makes fps go down. so usually I drop it slightly and looks same with better FPS, we all know how crysis runs.
GRID loaded fulscreen tho. so not sure.

Anyone have any idea's as why the same settings that used to show fullscreen on my 226BW are now not. in HL2 and Crysis??

Let me know what you guys think.

thanks!

I actually think the Native Ratio setting is different in this monitor.. so it's screwed up when I start games.. just a idea?

Like the Aspect Ratio. Is the correct setting for widescreen 16:10 or 16:9??
I'm not sure. but I know I had to mess with those a bunch in order to get fullscreen on HL. and never had to on my other Samsung 226BW. so not sure.
but seems good now. I'll try that later with Crysis also.

Weird... :huh:

In theory all things should remain the same; however, you apparently didn't have all your games set to use 1680x1050 in the first place, except for a few?

I would try forcing all your games to run at 1680 first. Afterall, what's the point of having a flashy Samsung 22" and a GTX260 if you're still playing games at 1024x768?

This list details how to set screen res: Master Games List - A - WSGFWiki

If at the end of this you're still playing at 1024x768, you'd better send me your video card or I'll be forced to report you to Video Card Protected Services and lodge an abuse complaint; because that's like locking a kid in a room 24/7 and only feeding it bread.

I'll beat you to that report - and I 'll take the video card for a small week after I get my other GTX260 and bench at 3 way SLI- after which you're welcome to keep it Fumz.

I can't use 3 way SLI because my TV Tuner is in one of my PCIe16x slots because the double wide card in slot 1 covers the PCIe 1x slot.... Only thing I don't like about the design on the 780i eVGA board.

On second thought, why bother reporting? I say we just head to Vegas now and liberate all his gear. :D ROAD TRIP!@!#%$#$%

I'll take the card, after you have it for a week of course, and I could always use a second 226BW. Since you already have 2 monitors, you get the problematic 225. he he

Heh - if you let me bench with the tri GTX260s, you can have all the video stuff you want- give me the HDs (since they are the same as my own) and the CPU and RAM....

Deal...

Hey xguntherc... pm john and I your address... we're coming over to jack your rig... and you will like it. :eek:

Don't worry about gaming, I have a few old crt's and an athlon 64 or two laying around, you'll be fine... it's not like you go above 1024x768 anyway.

Heh - I'll even leave my old P4 3.2(E) GHz machine with the VisionTek Radeon x1650 Pro AGP card and 2 GB of RAM for him to play on....

whoah whoah! An x1650 might be too much card for him?

I'm pretty sure Mr. 1024 doesn't need anything more than this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814241057

I'd donate the 1650 to a much more worthy cause. I'm sure there are middle schools in your area?

Heh - what about my GeForce 4 MX 440 dual head card? :P

Now we're talking.

Gunther, hurry up with that addy man! I can't wait to get my new stuff up and running! :D

i just moved Gunther to a secure location under the...
''rig protections act 2008''

your 260 is safe for now ....but to avoid these kidnap attempts in the future please feed it a decent resolution!!

Sooner or later he must reveal himself, if for no other reason than to re-stock the supply of Doritos and beer. It is then we will snatch him.

lol. WOW.. that was intense there for a minute, Robbing people. John's talkin again about doing a B & E. (I love Dane Cook). thats some crazy stuff here, good luck. don't even try it.

first off I never ever said I played at 1024x768. I said the games always loaded at that setting. but i never said I PLAYED at that.. I almost always always play on my native settings of 1680x1050. yes did you hear that.....
N A T I V E !!!

I'll give you ladies my Address.. TRY IT.

Thanks to Skunk I'm all set up in this nice Castle (aka. My Room), and if you gurlies even try to come anywhere near it you'll get pwned with my Cannon's. and Archers, not to mention the rows and rows of Pawns I'll throw down at you. and if all else fails I pick-up my tower and everything and somehow both monitors and carry all of it with myself out the Secret Escape Tunnels I built just for this sort of thing. When Crazy's like you all attack over the laws of Screen Resolutions..

In the end I will escape. so Fumz, when you say he can have the problematic 2253BW, are you just saying that, or you really think that the res things are from the monitor.

So ya, not sure about that, as when I loaded HL2 with my old 226BW it was already fullscreen and ready to go, but today I played a good few hours of it. Good game, but I had to mess with the settings for a few minutes to get it to fullscreen. Not sure why. Grid was fine, and Crysis was all weird also. so I don't know.

and the ONLY time I ever played Crysis anything other than native was because at a lower setting with my 260 I could have it look amazing and use 4xAA or even 8xAA and at a lower res I get amazing fps and it looks great. something my 8800 GTS never could do. so thats why I'd even consider it, and thats ONLY Crysis.


anyways, go ahead and try and Raid my goods and see what happens, See Fumz Avatar. Thats what I'll do to you crazy Theifs!!

http://www.vistax64.com/avatars/fumz.gif?dateline=1218868408

you wont even get close. WAAAAAH!

Oh and It's Frito's and Beer, Get it right.. Frito's are the best!

I knew we'd be able to tempt you out of your lair with one form of munchie or another. It was either that or we'd just roll out our trusty castle-wrecking Ballista... we're fully prepared to get Medieval on you if that's what it takes to liberate our new toys. :D

xguntherc said:

... when I load a game it almost always, always loads at 1024x768 I think. or something like that. but not native... either way, all the games were still at fullscreen. and I'd be able to play where it's at, or if needed I could go higher, and sometimes I'd just go native res.

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This paragraph leads us to believe you aren't running games at 1680x1050.

Clearly "something" isn't right. It should not matter to your OS or your games that you switched one 1680x1050 monitor for another 1680x1050 monitor. Like I said, before I concluded the monitor was jacked I'd run through all my games and set them up to run at native using the widescreen gaming forums I linked earlier. Not sure why HL2 didn't work for you, it supports 16:10; thus, 1680x1050 screen resolutions. There should be no black bars, no starting up in another res, nothing, just straight to native and away you go.

uh oh, getting out the Ballista. I'm in trouble. I have my Medieval Catapult ready for ya, so good luck gettin close.



I play Crysis on something other than native to get better fps, and Counter-strike cuz on CS native everything is to small. Everything else I play at native.

and ya, on my old Monitor when I started HL2 it was in fullscreen, but this new one it started with the Bars. but I was able to change it to 16:10 and change it to 1680x1050. so I played HL2 last night at native. Now I've changed it once. it should always be there right? I'll try Crysis again right now and see what it does.

But ya, i wonder why it's not setting the games to native right away. it should right?

OK, so I just tried COD4, and it starts up in 1024, same with Bioshock. but since i changed HL2 last night, it started right today.

WTF.. I'm not sure why it's doing this. I changed both Bioshock and COD4 to native and the bars go away, Bioshock started weird with my 226BW tho, but COD4 never did. COD4 started fullscreen everytime back when I played it. and now it doesn't. in COD4 when i hit opptimize for best results based on my system button. it changes it to 1024. hmmmm

Ideas?

If you're getting bars, it's because you have the game set to the wrong aspect ratio; use 16:10, not 16:9. Once you set a game to use a certain res, it will always start up at that res if the game supports it. CoD and HL2 both support 1680 so you should always start up and play at 1680. There should never be any bars and you should never start up at anything else but this res.

For games that do not support widescreen resolutions natively, use whatever method, be it changing the config or editing the target line in the game icon to set the game to 1680. Again, this is the place to find out what the settings are for all your games that don't natively support widescreens: Master Games List - A - WSGFWiki

Sometimes, with the widescreen gaming settings, a game's splash or intro screen will be something other than 1680, but the game itself will play at the res you set it to. I've never had a problem with this. I run everything at 1680x1050 no matter how old it is or whether or not the game natively supports widescreen. There's always more than one way to skin a cat.

If you choose to optimize cod it will revert back to 1024, but I don't know why you would do that? A GTX260 is going to be able to run any game at 1680, so forget about CoD's optimizing.

Ya I started HL2 up again tonight after I wrote that and all was good. Played for a while. so thats good. I'll try COD and Bioshock again tomorrow and see if it stays on what I set it to.

I WILL PLAY ON NATIVE, I WILL PLAY ON NATIVE, I WILL PLAY ON NATIVE.
lol.

and the only reason I hit optimize on COD4 was to see what it did. don't worry. I have everything turned to max. including 16QxAA and 1680 on that game.. this 260 does it all.

So my monitor ok?

oh and tell me this. my brother just bought a 47" LCD TV for his home. It's a $2000 LG. the best model they had in that size.. it has a good 4-5 Inches on BOTH sides, and about 2 and a half inches on the bottom of TERRIBLE backlight bleeding. is bleeding just as big a problem on TV's as monitors.

I'm amazed a TV that was that expensive would have it that bad. at the end of a movie, when the screen goes black and it's showing credits. 5 inches on both sides are White and it's "Not at All" a black screen. it looks terrible. also when the intro to movies start. and it shows the Title to the movie for a second. then goes blank to start the Show, the Title Stays on the screen, Ghosting for a good 3 seconds.. No exaggeration. it looks horrible. is this a faulty TV, or are 47" LCD's just more prone to the same problems as our smaller Monitor LCD's for computers.. ?? I tried to tell him it looked wrong and he didn't wanna hear it, should I try and convince him to get a replacement.??