Force resolutions on a 30" monitor.

[ZmaxDP]

Out of curiosity, I'm trying to force a higher resolution on to a dell 3007 monitor. Let's presume I've only got a single link connection and I wanted to run a 30" monitor at 1920x1200 temporarily. Now, I know this monitor won't do that on it's own. But, if I turned off scaling in the driver and could somehow force the card to pipe out a 1920x1200 signal to the monitor, would it:

a) basically show me the 1920 by 1200 pixels native and have a black space around the screen?

b) Show me nothing at all...


And, is there a tool I can use to set custom resolutions and then send those out to the monitor? The Nvidia drivers will only let me send out a 1280by800 to this monitor (1/4) resolution.

I know you could do this in XP with some downloaded tools, though I never tried it with this monitor before.

Thanks,

 

[ZmaxDP]

Just FYI, this is on a computer running Vista 64bit

 

[Jax Omen]

Assuming the driver works, if you choose no scaling you should get a 1920x1200 native image with black space all around it.

I've had very bad luck with driver-based scaling and will never buy another monitor that doesn't scale on it's own.

 

[ZmaxDP]

That's what I'd assume as well. However, I'm completely unfamiliar with any tools that will let me force that image to this monitor. I would have used Rivatuner in XP a few years ago, but I've been a bit out of touch with this stuff since then. I've got an Nvidia card and Vista 64. What can I download to give me a bit more control over my settings?

 

[n7]

I'm pretty sure you won't get anything higher than 1280x800 with a single link DVI connection on that display regardless of what you try.

Under dual link, you can run basically any resolution you want, either 1:1 pixel scaled or set to fill the display.

 

[ZmaxDP]

I'm finding that out. There seems to be no way to override what Vista reports as "max resolution" at 1280x800. So, I can't trick it into displaying 1600by1200 or 1920by1040. Just for fun I'm going to try this with an XP machine tomorrow. Bet I can get a 1600by1200 1:1 on it.