Anyone using a widescreen lcd monitor?

[DieMan44]

Yesterday we upgraded to HP 24" LCD widescreen monitors. Is anyone using wide screen monitors? And if so, how do you adjust the aspect ratio? Currently, my circles look somewhat eliptical. My current monitor setttings are 1600 x 1200, and we are using NX 3.0.5.3. Thanks.

 

[cowski]

John gives the answer near the end of this thread: thread561-180561

 

[DieMan44]

Thanks Cowski. Too bad NX doesn't adjust the image based on the resolution settings. I can see more people using widscreens in the future.

 

[MSPBenson]

Dieman,

We recently had some Benq monitors and had the same problem.
The fix was to make sure the resolution was set to 1920x1200.
We are running NX4 but I believe they had some of them befroe we upgraded.
We don't have to do the manual "fudge" in the visualisation.
It may be different for your monitor but I would suggest playing with different resolutions and make sure your drivers are installed for the monitor.

Mark Benson
Aerodynamic Model Designer

 

[DieMan44]

I tried 1920 X 1200 however my video card is older (Fire GL 8800) and only supports up to 1600 x 1200. My co-working has his working at 1920 x 1200 and his seems fine. It seems I have the incorrect resolution.

 

[cbrn]

Hi,
1600x1200 resolution is for an aspect ratio of 4:3 (try to divide 1600 by 1200... ;-) )
A widescreen monitor has an aspect ratio of 16:9 or similar (there exist lots of variations on this theme...): one of the possible combinations is 1920x1200 as suggested, though it's not the most usual.
Any ratio between columns and rows different than the aspect ratio of the screen surface will give "non-square" pixels, and thus call for the need of the software calibration in NX.

Regards

 

[cowski]

Look up the native resolution of your LCD monitor and use that (if your video card can handle it) as it will give the best picture (not fuzzy or distorted).

 

[acciardi]

Try the 1680 X 1050 settings, this should get you back to square pixels.

Ed

 

[DieMan44]

1600 X 1024 is the closest I am able to get to 16:9. Time to request a new vid card