View Full Version : Scaling display resolution past native
06-19-2011, 04:46 PM This is a bit of a weird question.
Displays can stretch a smaller resolution to display on a higher
native resolution screen. For example, you can put 800x600 on a
1024x768 display and have it stretch to fill the whole screen.
Is there any way to perform the reverse of this? For example, to
have a graphics card (or Windows, or 3rd party software) scale
down a 1024x768 desktop resolution to an 800x600 signal before
sending it to the native 800x600 display?  These aren't the
specific resolutions I'm using, they are just to make the
examples simpler.  This is using Windows, a modern Nvidia
graphics card and LCD displays.  I'm aware that it doesn't
provide much of an advantage over just using the native
resolution and don't really care about the quality of the
picture, but I want to try some things out before I buy a higher
resolution second display.