Stretch Monitor
 

I've just bought a 22" wide screen monitor. How do I get the picture to fit the screen - it's bigger than the screen and so I have to scoll left and right to see it all. Also, the picture is stretched.

I've adjusted the resolution as required by the manual i.e. 1680 x 1050.

Thanks.

There is something amiss here but can't think what, I have a 22" and its set to the same as yours 1680-1050 it could be down to the graphics card thats fitted into the machine.

There is something amiss here but can't think what, I have a 22" and its set to the same as yours 1680-1050 it could be down to the graphics card thats fitted into the machine.

I don't have a graphics card.

When you say you do not have a graphics card I assume you mean you're using the onboard graphics (built into the motherboard)
That could well be your problem, I guess you now need to buy a new card.
http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Componen...s-Nvidia?hp=pc

Thanks Wolfie. I'll go and see the shop that sold it to me.

buccaneer, did you ever get your monitor sorted.

If the resolution is higher than the screen in pixels then the image will be bigger than the screen. The sofware will have fit screen function somewhere, You are looking at a 100% image which on most cameras is way above 1680X1050. Unless your PC is very old or very cheap it will have a graphics card.

I've installed a graphics card; it solved the "stretch" problem and significantly improved the quality of my pictures. However, I have a new problem - the pictures do not fill the left and right sides of the screen i.e. there's a centimetre wide black margin on either side. I've not been back to the dealer as I got fed up with all the to-ing and fro-ing with the first problem.

buccaneer, you should be able to adjust the fit of the picture to the monitor using the harware buttons on the front of the screen, there's no need to either take it back to the dealer, or to put up with this problem.

Re wide monitor
 

Is it photgraphs that do not fit the screen or the computer image? If you get lines down the side on full screen images of photographs they are not the same shape as the screen. Wide screen is 1.6:1, Photographs are 1.5:1 or 1.3:1 unless you tell the computer to crop to fill the screen it will only fill to the top edges.

Your new graphics card should have an HDMI output to go to your new monitor. This becomes totally digital so these fit problems should disappear.

If you go to control panel click on the change screen saver and then i comes up yo should be able to click on a box at the bottom ,one is for normal pics the next is for a tile picture and the third for making the pic as big as the screen .the reason your pics do not fit your screen is you camera shoots in 3-2 ratio and you wide screen is bigger my older pics i had were edited on a square screen and were cropped to fit that screen i know crop to fit my new wide screen so my pics fit ,Hope this helps and wasn;t too rambling