Displaying jpgs in Vizard

[Feuereissen]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to display an jpg file (3968x2048) in vizard and am using a display with 2560x1600 and I still need to scale down the images tho its native resolution. I was playing around with mapping the jpg as a texture on a model but the image appears to be stretched along the y axis and the resolution looks poor. Vizard seems to scale down the image which I don't want. The main concern is the time it takes vizard to load this 3.x MB jpg file. Is there a way to
1) make vizard display the image faster
2) do so without changing the image aspect ratio/quality?
Maybe there is a way around the whole texture mapping thing...
Any insight is greatly appreciated

Thanks to all of you,

Dan