2 Monitors at different resolutions - How to properly create a custom resolution

[RaviP12]

So I have two monitors, one at 1920x1080 and the other at 1280x1024. I am trying to use NVIDIA custom resolutions to set the latter to a resolution of 1920x1080. However, whenever I do this, I get huge bars on the top and bottom. With the huge bars the settings are
- Display Mode:
Horizontal Pixels: 1920, Vertical Lines: 1080
Refresh Rate (Hz): 60, Colour Depth(bpp): 32
Scan type: Progressive

- Timing
Standard: Automatic
Horizontal Vertical
Active Pixels 1280 1024
Front Porch (pixels) 48 1
Sync Width (pixels) 112 3
Total Pixels 1688 1066
Polarity Positive(+) Positive (+)
Refresh Rate 63.96 KHz 60.000Hz

Pixel Clock: 107.9645 MHz


How do I set it so that I don't have black bars on the top and bottom. The size of the monitor I need to change is 20 inches. I know it's a Dell but no model number.

Thanks!

 

[k1114]

It's putting black bars to maintain aspect ratio. The smaller monitor is 4:3 (fullscreen, the old phased out standard) and the other is 16:9 (widescreen). This isn't really an issue with custom res settings.

There is a setting on the monitor to stretch/full screen but the picture is going to stretch if you really want to have no black bars. Or in ncp, go to adjust desktop size and position and select full screen. You may need to change scaling to gpu if the monitor's settings override and also override games and programs which sometimes doesn't work anyways.

 

[Math Geek]

you can't change it to true native 1080p since it is not a 1080p monitor. the change you are making is faking it but this shows with the black bars.

you want 1080p resolution, you need a 1080p or better monitor like the other one you have.