This has to do with display port and DVI, HDMI passing digital signal and the monitor scales wrong.

Get a adapter cable that converts to monitor's analog VGA port from the DVI-D port. This will get around this problem.

Cheers,

So it might be the 4200 is running an analog DVI connection and the 780 is running a DVI-D connection and that is the difference? If this is the case how come when I set it to 75hz it does scale correctly? Is that just something to do with the monitor?

Pretty sure, NV control panel has monitor scaling option, just put that to "no scaling" or "fixed ratio" and you should be good.

The 780ti should support analog out. Try a cheap DVI to VGA adapter and use the VGA port. It is probably the display that is doing it.

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Pretty sure, NV control panel has monitor scaling option, just put that to "no scaling" or "fixed ratio" and you should be good.

I don't seem to have that option in V368.81 which is the latest driver for XP. Do you think there is a better choice for driver version for the 780ti?

Thanks to everyone else for the suggestion to try the VGA display but I'm looking for a solution to fix this using DVI not by running it through the VGA input. I'll do that at a later date if I have to though.

I know you'd like to see me try this and it will probably work, but it changes the parameters of the question and the nature of the fix I'm looking for. Besides, its a last resort to dig through the rats nest of cables into my switchbox to do this and I'm not going to do that if I don't have to.

Try using the monitor's OSD to see what resolution it is detecting. That should tell you whether it is the monitor or the video card that is rescaling.

My bet is that the 780ti is doing the rescaling from 640x480 to the monitor's native resolution and that's why the aspect ratio is incorrect. Whereas the 4200 doesn't rescale and in that the case the monitor maintains the correct aspect ratio.

Interesting the OSD says 656X496 when its 60Hz and 640X480 when at 75Hz.

While the 4200 says 640X480 for both 60 & 75Hz.

Any ideas why its doing that or what it means? Seems like a problem with the profile for that resolution, I'm going to try a previous version.

EDIT X3 : Found a way around this, using 347.88 (Recommended drivers for 780ti by consensus), I can create a custom resolution for 640X480 then when the program runs it is in the correct aspect ratio. However, It will not let me build a custom profile for 32, 16, and 8 bit , it makes me choose a single one, it doesn't take into account bit depth it seems so I can't build the profiles I need to each bit depth....still trying to figure out if im missing something here.

Fun with DVI. You never know what to expect. Cards, monitors, OS and drivers all affect the results.

I picked up an EDID emulator in order to be able to force different monitor profiles. It allows old single link cards to work with my dual link 1440p monitor for example. But it's extraordinarily annoying to try to get the results you want from the scaling of different resolutions. VGA is so much easier.

swaaye wrote:

Fun with DVI. You never know what to expect. Cards, monitors, OS and drivers all affect the results.

I picked up an EDID emulator in order to be able to force different monitor profiles. It allows old single link cards to work with my dual link 1440p monitor for example. But it's extraordinarily annoying to try to get the results you want from the scaling of different resolutions. VGA is so much easier.

Which one you are using, also what looks like? "EDID emulator"

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote:

Which one you are using, also what looks like? "EDID emulator"

Cheers,

https://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/ … -Copy~VSEDIDDVI

swaaye wrote:

I picked up an EDID emulator in order to be able to force different monitor profiles. It allows old single link cards to work with my dual link 1440p monitor for example.

It might be possible to fix this entirely using software. By extracting the EDID information from the monitor and patching it, or creating an entirely new EDID blob and forcing it to be used. If a good EDID configuration can be found, it may even be possible to modify the EDID in the monitor permanently.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hard … g-monitor-edids