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Can't get resolution beyond 1600x1200

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discopalace

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Hi all,

I posted this question the Video forum. Didn't get anything there, but perhaps this forum is the more appropriate place.

Basically my video card and monitor say they can go to 1920x1440 resolution, but Win2k doesn't give me the option! is there something I'm doing wrong?

Much appreciated.
 
It may be a windows limitation, sometimes there is nothing you can do about it. Why such a large resolution anyways?
 
Try upgrading to the latest video drivers. Exactly what kind of video card and monitor do you have? Its possible that at resolutions higher than 1600 by 1200, the frequency and color combination may not be supported by your monitor.
 
Try updating the driver for your monitor, if that doesn't work, remove the monitor from the device manager and restart, hopefully it will auto detect the correct settings.
 
Ensure that you have a specific driver for the monitor installed rather than "Plug & Play Monitor" wherever possible. Windows ME/2000 onwards has a feature to hide resolutions that it believes the monitor can't display....generally it predicts this right but not always.

Corm
 
Thanks for the replies. Yes, I've tried updating drivers for both the monitor and the video card. In the process, I've removed the components from the control panel and re-installed. Still nothing 🙁

As to the Windows limitation, another guy said the same thing. Do any of you run above 1600x1200? Maybe I need to get into video tweaking or something. Yet my impression is that some people don't have a problem going above 1600res in the standard Windows display->settings panel.

The reason for this is that I play an online game called Subspace (the particular version I play is called Powerball). It's a 2D massively multiplayer shoot-em-up game. Where the resolution comes in to play is how big of an area do you see on screen. The more you see, the more you can see weapon fire or enemies coming at you. At one time, 1600x1200 was a luxury. But now everyone plays it at that res. The leading edge is at 2048x1636!

 
I'm running mine at 1792X1344@85Hz right now(just to check) make sure you have the maximum resolution/refresh rate set in the "displays" tab of the advanced display properties (or wherever you can configure the DDC properties of your monitor display)
 
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