LCD monitor resolution scaling?

[Laughing Mechanicus]

Someone pointed out in a thread a while ago that Nvidia's drivers apparently have the functionality to display a custom resolution to an LCD monitor, but retaining a 1-to-1 pixel mapping i.e. If my LCDs native resolution is 1680*1050, this function makes it output an image at 1280*1024 without scaling (so the unused parts of the monitor just have black bars).

This would be very useful for running older games, or the modern games that don't support wide screen modes. However the functionality in the Nvidia drivers is broken at present, it will let me setup the screens in the way that I would want (1280*1024 displayed on a 1680*1050 native screen), but when I try to apply the settings it just goes back to the standard native resolution. Some internet searching appears to suggest that quite a few people have this same problem but it's just a bug with the current drivers.

So now I'm looking for some software that would provide a similar function. My search didn't turn up any results, but that may have just been because googling variations of "LCD scaling" just brings up loads of hits to do with non-native resolution stretching. Does anyone know of any software that might offer those same functions, or similar?

My LCD is hooked up via a DVI cable, if that makes any difference at all.

[Xon]

For cases like this; I run VirtualPC or VMWare in a window.

DirectX7 and modern CPU's make ancient games run quite snappy even under virtual machines.

[Baka^Ni]

Is that bug STILL in the XP drivers? Geeze.

If you're using XP, try downloading nvidias overscan patch, should fix the lack of 1-1 pixel mapping.

That was one of the reasons that drove me to vista, a working implementation of pixel mapping.

[Laughing Mechanicus]

Is that bug STILL in the XP drivers? Geeze.

If you're using XP, try downloading nvidias overscan patch, should fix the lack of 1-1 pixel mapping.

Superb, sir. That worked a charm, many thanks.