Does Win 10 not support CRTs?

[EliteRetard]

Recently started playing with Win 10 and noticed a severe graphical issue. After a bit of futzing it seems my problem is any "non-native" resolution on my CRT. I prefer 1920x1440@80Hz and have been running that for I don't even know how long...but Win 10 looks like some ultra compressed 240p video that's been stretched onto a big widescreen TV or something. The text is so bad it's almost entirely unreadable. Swap to my CRT "recommended" 1600x1200@85hz and everything looks perfectly normal (though bigger than I like). I tried checking for scaling, but everything I can find seems to suggest it's turned off. I had no issues with a variety of older windows versions (including 7) and could even run 2048x1536 no problem (or 640x480 or 800x600 for my old games).

Don't suppose anybody here has an idea do they?

 

[mikeymikec]

Nope (idea). Can you test the monitor on another PC running another version of Windows?

 

[EliteRetard]

Yep works fine with 3 older PC's.

 

[mikeymikec]

I would have to wonder what MS could have done to Win10 to cause that though. My next line of inquiry would be the graphics drivers.

I had some wonderful times with nvidia cards and DVI (mostly the GeForce 7000 series), entirely driver related.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

I have used my CRT under 10 and it works fine @ 800x600 100hz and 1280x960 60hz. What graphics card are you using and with what drivers?

 

[EliteRetard]

Have an AMD HD 6950, driver 15.201.1151 pretty certain I am/was running the latest version.

Oddly enough I found my PC had restarted last night without my consent and the message center said it had done an update. CCC wasn't running so I just opened it. Seems everything is working fine today.

Thanks for the input.

 

[ViRGE]

Win 10 definitely supports CRTs. I can't say I have any idea why your 6950 wouldn't be willing to correctly drive one at alternative resolutions though.:|

 

[TheELF]

There are a lot of settings like clear type or advanced sizing that will easily mess up your display,happened to me as well.
On nvidia there is also the adjust size and position settings that will scale your display and will make it look very bad if it is on the wrong setting.
If it is set up corectly CRT work just fine in win 10.

 

[thilanliyan]

What's a CRT?

That would be odd if they removed support for them in Win10.

 

[TheELF]

What's a CRT?

That would be odd if they removed support for them in Win10.

They can't no matter how much they want to,CRTs only show up as plug and play display devices ,microsoft would have to create endless lists of hardware ids to block them,it's just not feasible.