Hi,

I just bought a new Samsung 27" S27B550V monitor for a better FSX experience but am having trouble with the resolution. After hooking the monitor up and installing the monitor driver, the screen image takes up the center of the screen with a black border of several inches around it like a picture frame. I tried to stretch the image with the image size controls but that did not work.

 

I checked the settings in Windows Control Panel and it says I have the recommended resolution of 1920X1080 correctly set. I tried other settings in the pull down window and 1280/720 fits my whole screen, although a little fuzzy. I checked with a guy at Best Buy and he said it's probably that my GPU can't handle the monitor's resolution or the video driver. I checked some information on the specs of my card and it shows it can run at resolutions higher than mine. (NVIDIA GTX - 275 1792mb)

 

I know my driver is not up to date, but it was recommended to me in the Carenado forum for issues I was having with my instrument gauges overlapping and doubling up while using a more up to date driver. The 270.61 works fine and eliminates the graphics problem. 

 

Recently, Windows update updated the driver automatically without my knowing it, and I found out by the return of the graphics issues in FSX. Sure enough, that's when I checked and realized the driver had been changed. I was able to revert back to the old driver and the graphics issue in FSX went away again. It seems that with graphics drivers, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies.

 

Any ideas on whether this is a GPU issue or driver issue with the resolution? I'd hate to change the driver unless I'm pretty sure it's causing the resolution problem so it doesn't cause problems in FSX again.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  I have a GTX 275, 1792 mb card, Windows 7 64-bit, Driver ver. 270.61.   Thanks,  Tom

Have a look in the NVidia Control Panel Under Display > Adjust desktop size and position - and try the different scaling options.

It may well be a lot simpler than that...

 

You have changed the monitor to one with 1920X1080. Did you change the necessary resolution setting in FSX? What is FSX' setting?

 

By the way, the GTX275 will pump out 1920X1080, but your CPU might break into a sweat. What was the previous resolution you ran FSX?

 

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Look on your monitor settings and click P.Size until it fits the whole screen.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Cheers,

Plane_Freak101

Thanks for the help, guys.

First of all, I did set the FSX resolution to the same as the monitor and it also only covered part of the screen. My previous monitor which I still have attached to my other DVI video port on the card so I can use it for FSX subpanels and gauges is a Gateway 17" and is set at 1440X900.

Where do I find the "P size" setting?  Also, I use NVIDIA Inspector. Can I use it to change the settings? As far as my CPU breaking into a cold sweat, is this because the GTX 275 will be taxed too far?   I have the i7-920 overclocked to 4.0 ghz. and also have the video card overclocked too.  Thanks again,  Tom

Well guys, it looks like I solved the problem.  I went into NVIDIA controller and found the "Adjust Desktop Size and Resolution" and that seemed to do the trick. So far, things seem pretty good. I also cet the FSX res to the same 1900X1080.  Panel is nice and crisp although I took a bit of a frame hit   Thanks again.   Tom

Yeah shame no-one suggested that 4 days ago eh !!!