nVidia 162.18 and Viewsonic VA1912wb

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Alyosha

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I just installed the new forceware drivers on my machine and it threw the scaling off on my monitor. The image is now a couple hundred pixels too wide and I have to put the mouse to the edge of the screen to make the image scroll back and forth to see my entire dispay area. Changing the flat panel scaling in the control panel either does nothing or it makes the image both too short and too wide.

I'm running the afore mentioned VA1912wb on the DVI port of a 7900gs AGP.

Any suggestions...
 
Isn't there an adjusment setting on the bottom left of the nVidia control panel? i used that for my dual monitor lcd display and it worked alright.
 
I'm not sure what setting you mean.

But, upon looking through my monitor's settings its reporting that it's displaying at 1280x960 even though the nVidia control panel says I'm putting out 1440x900. Someone is not telling the truth.
 
Alyosha
I've got the same problem.
Finally switched drivers from 94's to new ones and this problem occurs
It seems like the drivers are trying to run my Acer 22" resolution at 1900x1600 not the native 1680x1050
I reinstalled the old drivers and all is well.
However I do want to run newer drivers so I may try them again.:mad:
 
i had the same problem guys. I ended up doing a system restore =\

Any clues as to whats up? I hear that these drivers are supposed to do very well for the 7 series cards.
 
Thanks for the reply hossdaddy,
I tried the 162.18's again with the same result, no good.
I used driver cleaner.net both times for clean installs= no luck.
If I have to format [ I don't use sys restore] I guess I'll wait till I need to.
 
just do a system restore man and go back to the day before you installed that driver.
 
hossdaddy said
just do a system restore man and go back to the day before you installed that driver.
Click to expand...

I don't use system restore. See my other post-man.
 
I'm assuming you mean that you just restore back to the old drivers, not that a system restore somehow tricks the new drivers into working right.

I just uninstalled new drivers and reinstalled the old ones. Hopefully a solution presents itself.
 
somewhat related, but I'm trying to run vista 64 on my q6600 n650sli-ds4 and with the 162.22 64 bit driver on my 7900GT KO, I get corrupt video if I enable the other monitor at their native resolutions (1680x1050). It's really irritating, seriously. I wish nvidia could produce a decent set of drivers... :(
 
the new driver does not show the video card temp. anymore... or is it hidden somewhere?


mike
 
You have to download a temperature utility from nvidia to see temps.
Says this in the new drivers control panel.
 
I had the same issues with the new drivers

The monitor wouldn't display my actual native resolution of 1440x900 and I had to scroll sideways as the whole display didn't fit the monitor width

I rolled back and the problem isn't there. Hopefully they fix it up.
 
same thing is happening here with my 7900GS PCI-E, VA1912wb and 162.18 drivers
windows resolution is set to 1440x990 (native) but the monitor shows it as 1280x960 so part of the desktop is off the screen
 
From the nVidia forums (this worked for me on my 7950GT with ForceWare v162.18 and VA1912WB on DVI):
1. NVIDIA Control Panel > Display > Manage custom timings.
2. Click both "Treat as HDTV" and "Allow modes not exposed by the display"
3. Click [Create...]
4. Under Custom display mode values:
Horizontal desktop pixels: 1440
Vertical desktop lines: 900
GDI Refresh rate: 60
Bits per pixel: 32
(don't have "Interlaced" checked)
5. Click [Advanced >>] (by the way this is where I didn't go when NVIDIA emailed me)
6. Under "Back-end parameters":
Timing standard: DMT
Desired refresh rate: 60
(the rest of the fields are grayed out)
7. Under "Front-end parameters"
Scaling type: Display (none)
8. Click [Test]
9. Click [OK]
Click to expand...

Original posting: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=21993&st=0
 
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