Monitor troubles - sq is not sq

[Juli in Kona]

My old monitor died and I got a new one. It is an LCD. When I digitize an exact square as determined by the numbers (as opposed to eyeball), the monitor shows it as not square. This is very confusing when digitizing from scratch! I there any way that I can get my monitor to show square images as square?

Juli in Kona

[Body Cover]

My guess is that the new mopnitor is probably a wide screen, since most of them are, and the old monitor wasn't, My guess is that your screen resolution is set at 1280 X 1024 and it should be a wide screen setting like 1400 X 900 now.
Right click anywhere on an unused portion of the screen and then hit properties, then go to the settings tab and slide the screen resolution slider probably up one or two notches until you get a setting that works for you. If your eyes don't like the small detail at this high resolution try some smaller numers until you find a workable solution.

Good luck

Ron

[Steve]

1280 x 720 or 1280 x 800 setting should fix it if it is a wide screen monitor

[Juli in Kona]

Update on monitor problem.

Changing the screen resolution did not seem to work. Squares still did not show as squares.

I have s monitor adjustment (I actually read the instruction book!) called Monitor Ratio. There are only two possible settings 16:9 and 4:3. It was set to 16:9, so I changed it to 4:x3. And My screen resolution is 1280 X 960. This setting shortens my visible screen 2.5" on BOTH sides - so I am only looking at the center portion. But in DS a square is a square.

On the program Embird, there is a screen calibration. It shows you a square and it is described by numbers. You take a ruler and actually measure it and enter your new numbers. This then will make a sq show as a sq. Wouldn't it be nice to have this feature on DS. Most of the newe monitors are flat/wide screens now. Right?

Juli in Kona

[Steve]

I can only speak for Dell monitors because I support several thousand of them at my day job. The smaller monitors (under 20 inch) are square. Larger monitors (above 17 inch) are available in widescreen. Many new HDTV's have inputs for computers so if you buy a 70 inch TV, you can hook your computer to the back of it and have a 70 inch monitor. It's great for playing games on it

[Oregonian1a]

I had this exact same problem on my 29" Viewsonic Plasma wide screen. The solution is to find out what the "Native Resolution" of the screen is at and set Windows to that resolution.

I did this by going to my NVIDIA GeForce (video card) control panel. Under the heading "Change Flat Panel Scaling" the control panel displayed what the "native resolution" of the monitor was and what the "current resolution" was set at. I changed the current resolution to match the native resolution and the problem was fixed.

On that screen it did offer that I could scale things to correct for the error introduced by having the two resolutions at different settings, but seemed easier just to make them the same.

Not sure where you would find the native resolution for your monitor, but likely it would be in the documentation that came with your monitor.