Second monitor resolution messed up
I finally have the desk space to have a second small monitor on my desk. The issue is that I have only hdmi and DP ports on my graphics card, but the second old monitor I have is only VGA.
I bought a DP to VGA adapter and connected the monitor but its resolution is messed up. The monitor is telling me its optimal resolution is 1280x1024, but I am unable to set such a resolution in windows. It's giving me "1024x768 (native)" and some 16:9 resolutions, none of which are appropriate.
I tried using the NVidia control panel to set a custom resolution of 1280x1024 but the picture appears stretched and I cannot see like 20% of the screen on the left and the bottom. I tried all 4 "scaling" options in Nvidia but none produce a correct picture.
The only way I see a prope picture with no black bars or stretching is the "1024x768" one, but that is obviously a smaller resolution than I would like. Surely if it's able to produce that ratio with a smaller resolution it should support other similar ratios?
The monitor supports 1280x1024 definitely cause I know I used it before with the resolution and also it's yelling at me that it's not in optimal resolution.
Does anyone have any ideas?