ScorpiusX Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 Hi there. Today I Installed a brand new graphics card, XFX Radeon R9 280, and a brand new 22" widescreen monitor, (previous monitor 17" TFT no widescreen, previous card XFX Radeon HD 7700). I've spent most of the day making sure my games were running well with my new parts, and until I started Skyrim up I have had no issues whatsoever. With Skyrim the issue is that my characters are now twice as wide as before.. I set my desktop resolution to 1920x1080 (the monitors max and also the recomended resolution), and set Skyrim to this resolution as well. Now Skyrim is actually running fine with no issues with regards to stability etc, its just that the game seems to have either stretched my screen horizontally or shrunk it vertically. Whilst the game is still playable it just looks odd and is offputting, this stretching or squashing changed the way my girls look, yesterday they were stunning, today they are shocking. Ive tried changing the resolution and at any resolution above 1280x1024 (my old resolution) I am getting the same thing, although at 1600x1200 things were not as pronounced as at other resolutions. I have no idea asto why this is happening, and I hope someone on here has come across this before and can tell me what the hell I've done wrong. With thx in advance Scorp.
Shadowhawk827 Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Well, my first guess here would have been that Skyrim didn't support your resolution, but 1920 x 1080 is my resolution in-game and desktop also. I say it would have been my guess because I used to have this issue with City of Heroes. IIRC, my fix there was actually to install the drivers for the monitor instead of relying on the generic display drivers for windows. After that my heroes were no longer square, lol. For whatever reason, COH just was able to work with the specific monitor drivers better than the generic ones.
Mercenary666 Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 What your describing sounds like your video drivers are trying to stretch your old game resolution to fit your new monitor. The first place I'd check if I were you was my SkyrimPrefs.ini file. If you ever previously set this file to "read only", the game would be unable to edit the file with your new resolution, and what you're seeing would be the result. Open the file and look for the header [Display]. Somewhere in there you will see the following two lines: iSize H=nnnn <--------------the n's represent your screen Height, in your case 1080 iSize W=nnnn <--------------the n's represent your screen Width, in your case 1920 Hopefully this will help.
ScorpiusX Posted June 13, 2014 Author Posted June 13, 2014 Thank you for the replies. @Shadowhawk My monitor is a BenQ DL2215 and there aren't any drivers for it according BenQ. @Mercenary Checked my .ini's and all the relevant information was there. As it happens though I did stumble across the solution. Windows 7 says that my monitor is a Generic non plug and play monitor and that it only has a refresh rate of 60 hertz. However Catalyst control center correctly identified the monitor and reports that it has a top refresh rate of 75 hertz. Setting the refresh rate to 75 in Catalyst and running the game in windowed mode, sorted it out. Had to do both though as the refresh rate and windowed mode by themselves didn't do it , but combined it worked.
Shadowhawk827 Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 LOL, so I was partially right. I've seen that Generic Plug and Play Monitor setting cause trouble more than once. Really odd that your monitor didn't have any specific drivers though. Well, the main thing is you got it fixed. Enjoy the game now. After playing on a wide screen monitor, there's just no way I could go back to an old width monitor. Most games give your character a much better field of vision with a wide screen.
ScorpiusX Posted June 13, 2014 Author Posted June 13, 2014 Theres no way I'll be going back to a non widescreen monitor. Way too many of my games seem to have been created with widescreen as a standard template so to speak. The amount of screenspace taken up by various HUD items in different games makes playing on a normal monitor frustrating, as you barely have any screen left for playing the damn game. Having Widescreen solved that straight off. Now all I need is a new MoBoard, CPU and some more memory and maybe the 230+ mods i'm using will grow
CeeTeeDee Posted June 13, 2014 Posted June 13, 2014 i have a 16:10 1680x1050 tv which runs at all manners of f*cked up refresh rates. 1680 x 1050 60hz or 1280 x 1024 70hz or 1280x720 29hz interlaced or whatever... point is, that when the shit doesn't work properly (like after upgrading drivers) i uninstall the monitor profiles and restart windows, then things work. windows has monitor profiles saved, uninstalling the monitor in device manager and rebooting can help. 2cents.
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