Ian Criag Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Can CMBO, CMBB, and CMAK play on a wide screen TFT monitor. Has anyone tried this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 People did that. Keep in mind that CM seems to be hardcoded to never do more than 1600 pixels horizontally 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Kulin Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 Agreed. I have a widescreen out to 1920 pixels. CMAK/CMBB only allow me up to 1600x1200 and though you can set the monitor to stretch the screen I prefer to run at 1600x1200 with black side bars. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunwinglow Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 How do you change the picture resolution in CMAK? I seem to remember a video preferences page on the first instalation, but cannot find any similar controls now it is fully installed. I just bought a new monitor and wanted to adjust it. Thanks in advance, Tim P 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 You need to delete the Prefs file that is located in the same directory as the CMAK executable. Once this file is deleted the next time you launch CMAK you will automatically go through the resolution selection process, starting with your current desktop resolution (but at a possibly higher vertical refresh rate). CM will also go through the resolution selection process automatically if it detects that its resolution setting is higher than that of the current desktop resolution. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunwinglow Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Schrullenhaft, many thanks, that worked perfectly. Appreciate that! Tim P 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFJaykey Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 I just got a new widescreen laptop myself...how do you configure it to run CM with the black bars? Mine stretches CM to fill the full screen, no matter what resolution I set it at. This is in WinXP home with Nvidia 6800 and latrest drivers. Thanks much, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 Having your display truncate the horizontal resolution for the "black bar" effect is dependent on the video drivers, video BIOS and the video chipset itself. In your case the default operating mode is to stretch the pixels across the entire screen to fill the display. There might be an option in the drivers or the CMOS/BIOS setup to disable the 'stretching', but I don't know where it would be at. You can check around in the Display control panel: Settings tab > Advanced button > GeForce 6800 tab > look through the popup menu for anything that may allow you to change the 'pixel stretching' feature (though I don't know what Nvidia may call it). The other option may be to go through the CMOS/BIOS setup and see if 'display scaling' or 'stretch screen' settings exist anywhere and disable them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFJaykey Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 Thanks! Found it under the nVidia tab right where you suggested. 3 options are available for display of lower resolutions: "Display adapter scaling" [stretched to fill screen] "Centered output" [stretched to screen aspect ratio but centered, with border all around] "Fixed aspect ratio scaling" [bingo! with that setting CMAK fills the screen top to bottom with black side borders and no distortion.] Thanks for the pointer - My ACs have round wheels again! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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