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[dstarfire]

Just upgraded my video card today from an nvidia 7800gt to a Radeon HD6950.

Now if I try to run dragon age in anything other than my monitors native resolution, it displays black bars at the top and bottom of the screen (aka letterboxing) even for resolutions that have the same 16:9 aspect ratio.

Can somebody give me an idea of what's going on and/or how to fix it before I end up destroying a perfectly good (and rather expensive) video card in frustration?

I've tried:
disabling aspect ratio correction in video options
updating video card drives
uninstalling and reinstalling video card drives (with system reboot in between each).
reinstalling physx
ensuring that graphics card isn't trying to do any scaling tricks
searching the web  for information about this issue
searching this form for similar issues (though I've never had much luck with forum search engines)

[Wil SilverHeart]

Hi Dstarfire,

You never said what your monitor res was???? Eg. Mine has HDMI capable, ergo HD 1080. However in windows res. The Native res is 1920x1200, this is what I have my desktop set to, my vid card, and my in game res as well.

If you look carefully you will see numerous resolutions in the in game pull down menu, for me there are 2 sets, 16:9 ( 1920 x 1080 ) or 16;10 ( 1920 x 1200 ).

When you start a game go into configuration and pick your res there first, then start a game and see your options from that menu and compare

I have the hd 4600 series and my menues read like:

Displays Proporties shows the default display and native res. color qulity and refresh rate.

My Display Options is as follows; Use manual Detection, 3D refrsh is same as desktop And only allow panning on limited res displays.

Digital Panel DVI reads: Graphics adapter info, Image Scaling, use cetered timings, DVI Settings, Alternate DVI Operational Mode

I never did anything within the secondary displays options for 720P and like settings that section is default.

Cheers! Wil SilverHeart

[Moondoggie]

You'll get letterboxing if you use a smaller resolution than your native resolution since the game display is smaller it won't fill the screen up. In many games it doesn't do that but i find in DAO it does. Always stick to your native resolution if you want a full screen display.

[dstarfire]

Thanks for the responses.

My monitor has a native resolution of 1920 x 1080, and is connected through it's DVI port. I run windows at that resolution, and use my various apps' built-in zooming features to display text and such at a comfortable size.

In games, however, it's a different story.If I run it at maximum resolution I lose a lot of the details, and suffer eyestrain after only a few hours of gameplay.

I could understand the letterboxing if I were using an aspect ratio that was different from my monitors native one, but I'm not. The wierd (ans particularly annoying thing) is that it stretches the width to fill the screen, but not the height, resulting in a wierdly squashed look.

I noticed this behavior when I first started it up after installing my new video card, before I'd changed any of DAO's video settings. Those same settings had caused it to fill the screen with my old geforce 7800, so why not with this one?

[Wil SilverHeart]

Hello Again,

Hm.... Is this zoom feature that you use selectable? Can you make a profile via your card that when you play games it will go to the native res for your monitor? Then when your not playing it reverts back to your desktop settings with the zoom feature enbled?

I have no need for using zoom so maybe somehow the game is getting magnified, not switching to native when in 3d mode?????

Cheers! Wil SilverHeart

[RaenImrahl]

dstarfire wrote...

Thanks for the responses.

My monitor has a native resolution of 1920 x 1080, and is connected through it's DVI port. I run windows at that resolution, and use my various apps' built-in zooming features to display text and such at a comfortable size.

I think the moral of the story is to try setting both your desktop and DAO to the same resolution.  So you can downgrade your desktop before launching the game... I know that will play havoc with your icons, if you have a lot of them, but you can try.

Since you're using a new video card with a different chipset, it's resonable to assume that it will handle scaling differently than the old Nvidia setup.  I am not familiar with the ATI Catalyst software, but there's a decent guide (it may not be updated to the latest version) at http://www.tweakguid...m/ATICAT_1.html

[dstarfire]

The 'zoom feature' I refer too is a functionality built into the vast majority of apps. It's that simple ctrl+scroll wheel. In Windows 7, it also adjusts the size of your desktop icons.

Thanks for the pointer Raen. Turns out that after I enable image scaling in the catalyst control panel, Dragon age looks like it did previously.

Now, if I can just fix that stupid crashing bug ... I'd be a hero to dozens of players. *L*