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amlin

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hi everyone, I have a burning question to ask. I have a Hercules 3d prophet 8500 which has DVI output. I'm looking to buy a wide-format LCD screen. However, I'm not sure if my prophet 8500 will support the LCD resolution (1680 by 1050). is there any way I can check? also, are supported resolutions from the monitor or from the graphics card?

thanks
amerson
 
I could not find the specs for your card listed on Hercules' website, so since it's based on the ATi 8500, I figure it should be the same specs as a "Built by ATi" card. Here's what resolutions are supported:

http://mirror.ati.com/products/radeon8500/radeon8500128/specs.html

It doesn't appear the resolution is applicable. However, I remember people telling me about tweaks and such that could enable such resolutions on ATi products.

http://www.rage3d.com/r3dtweak/

Something like that.

However, I'm not totally sure if it's even possible at all to do so with your model/drivers.

I hope this helped and best of luck to you!
 
Apple's Cinema Display, innit?

The problem in Windows is, even though the VGA card detects the display's native resolution through PnP, Windows never ADDS resolutions to the list - it has a list of predefined ones (from the VGA card's BIOS, essentially), from which unsupported ones are deleted. But if the monitor reports an extra one, this doesn't get added.

Technically, any graphics chip is capable of producing pretty much every resolution and timing - it's just that in Windows, you can't tell them to. (In XFree as seen on Linux, you can.)
 
James Bond and Peter,

thanks for the replies. I check out the ATI site and yeah, ti doesn't support that resolution. The Rage3DTweak seems to be promising... I'll definitely give it a shot. Peter, you mentioned that any graphics card is capable of doing any resolution.. which is a good thing for me. (adn you're right, Apple 20" display.. sweet stuff), except that you can't tell Windows to add resolutions. Anyway to get around that? like meddle in the registry??

thanks all
amerson
 
No idea. I can make you a custom resolution for XFree in like five minutes, but in Windows, the only thing in that direction I've ever done was patch a VGA BIOS to support an odd-sized panel right from the start (I'm a BIOS engineer y'know 🙂)
 
The sledgehammer solution would be to use the larger Cinema Display. That one is 1920x1200, a resolution that is sort of common in the x86/Windows world.
 
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