Screen Resolution Problem

[Olurum]

Alright, I've been search and reading around for a while now and can't seem to find a solution for this problem: I have a 1920x1200 (16:10) monitor and use nvidia's driver options 'Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed aspect ratio'. This will correctly stretch an image as much as it can while preserving the aspect ratio, whether it be 4:3, 16:9 or 16:10.

 

Eg: A resolution of 1280x1024 will be stretched to 1600x1200 (the biggest possible on my screen as I my monitor y value is 1200).

Also I choose to run Oblivion in 1600x900 which gets stretched to 1920x1080 (my monitor's biggest x value is 1920).

 

Both times, the aspect ratio is correctly preserved and black bars are added to the image as it should be while using as much of my screen as it can.

 

But, with Fallout 3 no matter what I choose, anything below my native resolution of 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 will be letterboxed without being stretched. So I get huge amounts of black bars on the sides and top and bottom and a fairly small image depending on how small the resolution is. It displays it pixel by pixel basically.

 

I tried changing some settings by setting the nvidia scaling options to just 'Use NVIDIA scaling' without the aspect ratio preserving part and even more strange things happen. Usually when selecting that option it should stretch ANY resolution to 1920x1200 to use the entirety of your screen, irrelevant of preserving the aspect ratio. But this doesn't happen... the images do get stretched, but their aspect ratio becomes even stranger. A 16:10 resolution of 1280x800 should clearly scale up perfectly to 1920x1200 without any black bars... but it does not; it gets stretched into 1920x940 for some reason with black bars at the top and bottom.

 

The only thing I can deduct from that is that the game displayes the 16:10 resolution over 1600x1200 (a 4:3 resolution) and then just stretches it along the x axis to fit 1920x1200, resulting in this skewed 1920x940 resolution.

 

Has anyone had any similar problems or have I missed some important settings somewhere in the INI that specify my default aspect ratio or something?

 

I have tried searching around on google and so forth and fear that I'm the only one with this problem. I've tried all the usual updating drivers and so on.