Glenn Stuart Morrissey wrote:

Hello All

Hey I have a Radeon HD 3450 Graphics Card and a Acer 22" LCD Screen.

When I enable the Radeon restricted driver, the desktop area is now larger than my screen are abut most of it is not my background image but black screen. I wanted to enable the driver to run flightgear, but its just so damn ugly with big black bands of solid black that I can stand it no longer and disable the Radeon driver. When I do that I get my normal desktop back that does not scroll beyond the limits of the screen, but flightgear becomes completely unrunable due to it becoming agonisingly slow.

Is there anything that i can do without having to replace this graphics card?

Are you sure this isn't just a case of the output from your graphics card not being correctly synced to the LCD output? EG, have you tried adjusting the display on the LCD itself to correct this? (most LCDs have an "auto" adjust feature which should do a pretty good job of it). Otherwise, make sure you're actually setting the output to a resolution that is supported - preferably the native resolution - of the LCD screen.