Monitor Size Problems

[Arakorn]

I have an annoying large problem.

My monitor is an Acer 17" LCD; AL 1711 (says in top right of the monitor) with 16ms. Native resolution is 1280x1024.

I year or so ago while playing Need for Speed Most Wanted I had my old GPU, which was really old, so I had to turn down the setting and put the resolution one step lower from my monitors native, to 1024x768. Now, one time when I played, I noticed that a part of the side got cut off, and it was either the left or the right side of the monitor.

Now, it seems that my monitor is so crappy that I can't scale it at all, just move the image to center. It was annoying, especially while playing Oblivion, I couldn't play on native cuz of lag, nor on 1024 cuz of image cut off, so I had to go with 800x600. I survived, but today, when for the first time playing the new 2.8 version of Americas Army, it happened again, with my native resolution!!!

I joined a server, and I noticed that a part of the text is missing. I auto-positioned the image with my monitors button, but it didn't help.

This is so much more annoying than the smaller res, cause it's the native resolution and the biggest allowed, and I'm very used to it.

Anyone had similar problems?


EDIT: Forgot to say that I have a Geforce 7600 GS (PNY).

I just went to the NVidia Control Panel and set the settings to 1280x1024, but improved the refresh rate and put it to 70hz. It worked, and it works for the lower res too, but whenever going back to 60hz the problem still remains.

I'm worried that I'm going to have problems with games where I can't set the refresh rate!