User's Manual

User Guide for Chrome 500 Series Graphics
SG195-A.1 10/20/2008
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HDMI Mode
dropdown list
HDMI Mode is a dropdown list of available HDMI
Formats.
This list is dynamically generated information
processed by the driver from data specified in the
HDMI monitor’s information. The driver also prunes
the list to those formats which do not exceed the
graphic board’s available digital interface
bandwidth.
Note: If you have a 16:9 wide screen device, 4:3
formats will appear on your screen with black areas
on the left and the right of the screen. If you have a
4:3 standard screen, 16:9 format types will appear
on your screen in letter-box mode, i.e., with black
areas on the top and the bottom of the screen.
Display scaling
dropdown list
The Display scaling dropdown list allows you to let S3
Graphics software help set an optimized mode for your
HDMI output.
Preserve aspect ratio is the default setting. The S3
Graphics software will maintain the aspect ratio and up
scale the screen image as large as possible to the
device’s native resolution.
Note: Even if you have enabled the monitor’s built-in
scaling, the monitor’s scaling will not occur. The S3
Graphics driver does the expansion to the native display
resolution.
Select the Disabled list item to have S3 Graphics
software use the display resolution and refresh rate
requested you specify, without any GPU up scaling..
This setting is appropriate when you want to use the
monitor’s built-in scaling.
Select the Full screen list item to have S3 Graphics
software upscale the screen image to a full screen
image which matches the device’s native resolution. The
aspect ratio may not be maintained.