FIX: nvidia 8756 fullscreen not stretching in games

[thayerw]

Keywords: quake 3, quake 4, games, 8756, fullscreen, black borders, occupying, window, bottom left, scaling

Just thought I'd pass along this solution that worked for me... I'm a linux newbie running Fedora Core 5 with the latest nvidia driver (8756), and whenever I loaded games like Quake 3 in fullscreen, the window wouldn't fill my viewport. The 800x600 in-game resolution I normally run would only fill the bottom left corner of my screen which runs at 1280x1024 on the GNOME desktop.

I found a workaround by manually adding available resolutions to my X config:

su -
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Look for

Modes

under

Section "Screen"
SubSection "Display"

Make sure that the Modes section shows all of the standard resolutions that your monitor can support. Do this for each color-depth (16 and 24). For example, my original config only listed 1280x1024 as an available mode, so I changed my config to look like this:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "960x720" "800x600" "640x480" "512x384" "400x300" "320x240"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "960x720" "800x600" "640x480" "512x384" "400x300" "320x240"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Restart X or reboot to apply the new settings.

It works like a charm now... I hope this helps everyone else suffering from the same issue.

Cheers.