Keyclone,

Thanks for the quick feedback. I took a look at all your example layouts. It looks like my first configuration was just fine - all I needed to do was change the in-game resolution from 800x600 (a 1:1.33 ratio) to 1024x800 (a 1:1.28 ratio that matches my region's ratios). I did this and things look slightly cleaner - I guess I've been looking at things slightly skewed from normal for the past 8 months.

Playing around for 15 minutes or so, performance doesn't seem to be affected. One of my worries was that the higher the in-game resolution was set, the harder the video card would have to work, but it looks like settings of 800x600, 400x300, or even 4x3 would produce exactly the same result.

So the bottom line on in-game resoultion is that it is simply a way to match the region ratios and has nothing to do with the actual number of pixels displayed (let me know if that's not right).

Thanks again!