Vista + Nvidia + WS resolutions

Pants · Post by **Pants** » 31 Aug 2007, 22:22

Hi,

After installing my brothers monitor drivers we still can't get 1680 x 1050 to show itself in Vista x64. It's a belenia 22" widescreen on analogue.

I have tried modifying an inf file but windows seems to ignore it!

In the old driver you used to be able to set a custom resolution and we have done this in windows XP before but Vista doesn't seem to have the option.

Is there any software or registry hacks I can do to enable 1680 x 1050 for him?

Many thanks,

Pants.

packerfan · Post by **packerfan** » 31 Aug 2007, 22:34

Are you sure your video card drivers are up to date with the latest update... my dad had this same issue and it turned out he needed a driver update

Pants · Post by **Pants** » 31 Aug 2007, 22:45

Yeah it's the very latest beta 163.xx drivers from Nvidia...

HE has had this problem before though in XP. But with XP you can just create a custom resolution.

Very strange, I think it's the monitor because it's a TFT with analogue input.

With my 1920 x 1200 DELL monitor vista just installed and changed the resolution to native, by itself. The monitor communicates with Vista via the data channel on the DVI.

At the end of the day I think it's worth spending more to get DVI for this reason.

Anyway... powerstrip seems to have cured the problem.

So if anyone else has this problem it might be worth installing powerstrip!

Cheers.

P.S. Hello i'm a n00b here, but will stay around i think. Nice forum. 8)

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