Hdtv

[sb19]

I recently bought a HDTV (1920 x 1080) and have is hook up to my computer. I am having problems viewing realflight in the 16:9 mode. The picture comes out stretched. Is this a real flight problem or a video card problem? I have a geforce 6800 video card. I have tried changing the resolution but the best I can get is 1280 x 1024.

[Adam Taylor]

It sounds like that video card can't output a resolution that your TV wants. You mentioned the highest resolution you can get is 1280x1024, which is a 5:4 resolution. Putting your TV in 16:9 mode while feeding it a 5:4 resolution signal will stretch the display horizontally.

My personal suggestion would be to get an awesome video card to match the max resolution of your awesome TV. If your video card can run RealFlight in a 16:9 resolution such as 1920x1080, the problem is essentially solved right there.

[opjose]

It's the video card... actually it's may also be the TV.

If you have hooked the TV to the PC via a digital HDMI/DVI interface the TV will let the card know what resolutions it can handle.

Assuming that you have it correctly hooked up the video card may not have enough memory to handle the added display resolution.

Or the video card is not detected what the TV is capable of.

Or because of the way you have it hooked up the card is defaulting to a mode it knows will work.

There is an override in the control panel that let's you select "unsupported" display resolutions, but be forwarned that you may loose display output.

This will let the card flip to resolutions that it thinks the monitor/tv is unable to cope with.... however the timing may not be acceptable to the TV and you end up with no picture until you change things back...

Oops no picture, so how do you change things back?

Well you could bring up the computer in safe mode ( F8 at the beep ) and set the display to 640x480 which causes it to revert on the next reboot to 800x600...

[Adam Taylor]

Originally Posted by opjose

...bring up the computer in safe mode ( F8 at the beep ) and set the display to 640x480 which causes it to revert on the next reboot to 800x600...

The F8 Windows XP boot menu (other incarnations of Windows may have this as well) also has an option called something along the lines of "Enable VGA mode", which solely resets your resolution to 640x480, without doing all the other nonsense that Safe Mode normally makes you deal with.

[opjose]

Yup doing either temporarily utilizes the VGA mode drivers.

It's important to "touch" the resolution settings though, by setting them down.

Upon the next reboot, the original drivers are used again but XP/Vista notices that the resolution was changed while it was in "safe" or VGA mode, so it reverts back to a much lower resolution, giving you a picture again.

[TomXP411]

Originally Posted by sb19

I recently bought a HDTV (1920 x 1080) and have is hook up to my computer. I am having problems viewing realflight in the 16:9 mode. The picture comes out stretched. Is this a real flight problem or a video card problem? I have a geforce 6800 video card. I have tried changing the resolution but the best I can get is 1280 x 1024.

How is the TV hooked up to the computer?

HDTV's can have several different types of video ports that may match different ports on your video card: Composite, S-Video, Component, HDMI, DVI, or VGA.

To get the correct resolution on your TV, you must be using DVI or HDMI. Do not use the S-Video TV-out on your video card. That won't work properly.

The best thing to do is go to a local electronics store and get a DVI-HDMI adapter cable. It should run you about $20-$30. This will plug in to the DVI port on your computer and the HDMI port on your TV. SHUT THE COMPUTER DOWN, plug the cable in, set your TV to the right input, and then start the computer. If you've done it right, the computer will POST on the TV, and you should see the correct resolutions after that.

It's also possible that the 6800's might not do HDTV. In that case, you'd need to get a better graphics card. My 7600GT works fine on HDMI or DVI monitors.

[David Robert Wright]

Another possibility may be that you are running in full screen mode, but have not yet changed the full screen resolution in the settings dialog box. In the settings dialog, go to "Graphics" and then to "Hardware" and you should see a drop-down menu that lists all of the available resolutions.

[Junkboy999]

Hey Sd19

I have the 6800 GForce and it was running and looking great untill I got a New 22" LCD monitor, every thing looked flattened in RF ( and me Windows fonts look bad and hard to read even making them bigger ). I got new driver for the 6800 2 day ago ( released 11/2007 I belive ) and Now I can Read my screen and RF looks great. This is not a HDTV but just a Monitor with HDMI inputs and I'm using my HDMI out puts from my V card, so it might fix you problem too


Hope this helps

[inky00]

I have a 6200 and run G3.5 on my 26" LCD HDTV,my TV has a component input so it takes the component output straight from the graphics card into the TV.I can run resolutions of 1360x768 with no problems.Certainly beats a 15" lcd monitor which is what i was using before.