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porphy · 02-04-09, 10:10 AM

Seems like a good choice Sky. How are colours when flying a dark sky in dusk or dawn? My Samsung monitor is not always capable of displaying the ranges of dark to light colours without banding (clear lines where the transition from dark blue to lighter blue, for example, isn't smooth.) This is my only complaint about my monitor compared to the old crt one.

The feature with 4:3 aspect ratio on the monitor is neat indeed. Much better to have the hardware manage this scaling, especially as Nvidia never manages to fix this broken option in their drivers.

I'm a bit unsure though, how this works. Does it work even if I would choose 1680x1050 for resolution in the sim, because you say the 4:3 aspect ratio display is still in the monitors native resolution? It seems to me that the picture wouldn't come out right then. Don't you still have to pick a resolution in the game which is made for 4:3 aspect ratio, and then push the button when you run the game to enforce the right ratio?

cheers Porphy

02-04-09, 10:10 AM	#52
porphy Commodore Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 603 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Seems like a good choice Sky. How are colours when flying a dark sky in dusk or dawn? My Samsung monitor is not always capable of displaying the ranges of dark to light colours without banding (clear lines where the transition from dark blue to lighter blue, for example, isn't smooth.) This is my only complaint about my monitor compared to the old crt one. The feature with 4:3 aspect ratio on the monitor is neat indeed. Much better to have the hardware manage this scaling, especially as Nvidia never manages to fix this broken option in their drivers. I'm a bit unsure though, how this works. Does it work even if I would choose 1680x1050 for resolution in the sim, because you say the 4:3 aspect ratio display is still in the monitors native resolution? It seems to me that the picture wouldn't come out right then. Don't you still have to pick a resolution in the game which is made for 4:3 aspect ratio, and then push the button when you run the game to enforce the right ratio? cheers Porphy __________________ "The only remedy for madness is the innocence of facts." O. Mirbeu "A paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts." W. B.