Planetary improvement screen not scaling?

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Just wondering if anyone else is playing in 1280x800 and noticed that the planet graphics are not stretching to fill the whole area.  There's a black border around the planet image.  Don't know if this is a feature or if it's a problem with my particular set-up.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Being at 1280x1024, i can say that mines are scaling quite well without a 'black border' around... this may be caused by your video-card driver or another "flaw" related to an OS issue; Vista? Full-sreen or windowed? PNG decoders? DirectX framework? etc.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmmm, it might be that galciv just doesn't like my "nonstandard" resolution. Cos it seems that only the horizontal axis is affected. 800 vs your 1024. Thanks for the reply, buddy, really appreciate it.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The planet view will only scale so much as it can while maintaining its aspect ratio.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh, but i thought this was about each individual tiles having a border... it seems that this is about the entire surface as a whole. Then, i also do have that normal "rescaling" border - but it isn't the only place where such things happen.

All (if not most) screens are basicly framed up & designed in a basic ratio of 1024x768 resolution and thus, simply re-adjust to whatever settings one may have active.
Just the panomaric wide monitors must show up a pretty nifty & immersive backdrop and would, in fact i guess, have a much wider black border for the planet surfaces.

My oldy Samsung-SyncMaster 16" does feel sooooo *compressed* at times!
While the NVidia 6200AGP could in fact spread it all out up to 2048x1536(85hz) on a flat LCD... but, i can't see it - yet.
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Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Wow thanks for the replies guys! Really cleared things up, I was wondering if it was something to do with my wonderful laptop drivers again.. Cheers!