Preview to Second Monitor Problem in Vista

MUTTLEY wrote on 3/13/2008, 11:50 AM

For some reason if I preview to a second monitor in Vista, unless "Scale output to fit display" is checked I get some pretty ugly aliasing on the second monitor when previewing. If I uncheck "Scale output to fit display" the video fills the whole monitor without any aliasing but is not letterboxed and therefor a little stretched. It doesn't do this when in Windows XP (dual boot). I've checked and unchecked just about every other option (or at least I think I have) and the only one that seems to make a difference is "Stretch output to fit display".

Anyone got a guess or seen this before?

- Ray
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Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/13/2008, 12:27 PM

What is the resolution of your second monitor? Video card set up?
I don't have a good second monitor on our Vista machine, so can't repro with any integrity.

MUTTLEY wrote on 3/13/2008, 12:53 PM

Eh Spot, second monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster set at 1680x1050. Video card is an 8600 GT.

And yea, just kinda weird how it does it right in XP with the same setup. Letterboxes it and no pixelization/aliasing.

- Ray

Some of my stuff on Vimeo
www.undergroundplanet.com

MH_Stevens wrote on 3/13/2008, 1:59 PM

Very similar thing. My laptop monitor is the common 1920x1200 (8700M XT) and when I hit the "preview monitor" switch in the preview window to monitor at full screen I would expect the 1920x1080 picture to be letter-boxed, but it is not. Is this the same issue? How does it spread the 1080 lines between 1200?

Mike