Many thanks for the pointers! CRU does not seem to work here, it quits with an error. VBEMP would work, but does not offer any improvements over the 6.2 ATI package. The missing options in VBEMP let me suspect that the display does not report its correct capabilities in W98SE. A (wrongly) recognized square panel with 1680x1680 dots would not need wide screen settings, obviously. That said, I´m afraid its rather a hardware/firmware issue than driver related. The Omega package does not offer widescreen either, BTW. Tinkering with the drivers somehow enabled the scaling option in the monitor´s settings. As it is, I can have correct aspect ratio in W98 and thus in Fusion_PC 3.0 (which is the main reason for setting up W98) so I can live with what I got. Lets hope things remain as they are after cold start. I´ll try another wide screen display the next days, to see how I fare.