tVEC Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) I'm beginning to lose faith. This weekend I reinstalled skyrim and my mods AGAIN, but the results were great. Then last night I saw the ATI 12.2 driver was out, so I decided to try it. As usual I uninstalled 12.1, used driver sweeper in safe mode, then installed 12.2. I use a 24" monitor with 1920x1200 native resolution. I run skyrim at 1920x1080. Never had a problem doing that, but after the new driver Skyrim gets stretched to 1920x1200 while in 1920x1080 in full screen mode. the 1080 resolution displays fine in windowed mode only. First I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled 12.1 no dice. Turned off Radeon Pro and disabled its service. deleted the skyrim ini's and reset them in the launcher. I uninstalled the monitor driver and reinstalled. Nothing worked. New Vegas, on the same drive as Skyrim, opens in 1920x1080, so it must be a setting in Skyrim. I removed all the d3d9.dll's in my Skyrim root folder, thinking it could be enb- I had this issue before with the limiter, but no change. I tried turning v-sync on and off in the ini's and in radeon pro. No change If anyone has any ideas, please let me know..... Edited February 6, 2012 by tVEC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) The extra pixels can't have much of an impact on performance, can they? Your monitor is 1920x1200, so that's 2,304,000 pixels.Going from 1080 pixels to 1200 is only a difference of 34,500.That's 1.5% If you ran Skyrim at 31fps on 1920x1080, now you'd run it at roughly 30.5 fps at 1920x1200. I'm wondering why you don't play in 1920x1200 and save yourself the headache. Edited February 6, 2012 by Rennn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tVEC Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 The extra pixels can't have much of an impact on performance, can they? Your monitor is 1920x1200, so that's 2,304,000 pixels.Going from 1080 pixels to 1200 is only a difference of 34,500.That's 1.5% If you ran Skyrim at 31fps on 1920x1080, now you'd run it at roughly 30 fps at 1920x1200. I'm wondering why you don't play in 1920x1200 and save yourself the headache. Hi Yes I suppose that is true, I just seem to get better quality with the same performance at 1080. Could be a placebo. My main concern is to find out why this happened as to not be an issue in the future with other things. Simple Borderless Window works but the window does not expand. I will continue to tinker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) It's probably another Skyrim bug. :/ I guess it's possible that Skyrim is somehow optimized for better quality at 1080p. I think I'll wait for someone better-informed than me to comment on that. Edited February 6, 2012 by Rennn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tVEC Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 Actually Simple Borderless Window does TRY to expand, the borders disappear but the displayed image stays the same size. It's like something is interfering with the "black bars" you see when a 1080 resolution is on a 1920x1200 monitor. With SBW, its like the black bars are missing and the image is pushed up to the top edge of the screen. Without SBW the black bars get pushed out by the distorted image stretching from 1080 to 1200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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