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Hi everyone,
I bought a Samsung 275T monitor recently and drive it through a 8800GTX (163.44 drivers). So far everything plays fine at 1920x1200. I know there will come a day when I'll have lower the resolution (and soon after that have to get a new graphic card
) This monitor's default resolutions besides 1920x1200 are mainly 4:3 resolutions like 1600x1200, 1280x1024 etc. The only other widescreen resolution is 1600x900. I was thinking of adding another for the future like 1680x1050.
My initial attempts using the nVidia drivers didn't work. Powerstrip didn't seem to support GF 8series cards. After some searching through various forums I got 1680x1050 to work via 2 methods. Everything seems fine and the perspectives look correct. But I have two questions.
1. The monitor seems to register 1680x1050 by the graphic card as 1400x1050 through its menu. As I wrote, the graphics look fine, albeit slightly blurry relative to 1920x1200. Whether I set scaling as off, letting the display's built in scaling work, or using nVidia scaling work, the monitor always reports 1400x1050. Does this incorrect reporting matter? Is there a way to get the monitor to also report 1680x1050?
2. Can a LCD monitor be damaged with custom resolutions if the timing parameters ( describe this below in the P.S.) are not quite right? Or if it displays things fine, should I assume everything is fine? I'm not actually planning on using 1680x1050 much but I was just experimenting for the future when I'll likely need it before an upgrade?
Thanks for any advice.
TZL.
P.S. I'll describe what I did to get 1680x1050 to work.
I went into the "Manage custom resolutions" using the Advanced settings tab in the nV control panel. Although some posts in different forums mention clicking on the "Treat as HDTV" and "Allow modes not exposed by the display" to on, I found for me I could keep them off or on and no difference was noticed.
I clicked on "Create" and under "Custom display mode values", entered 1680, 1050, 60 and 32-bit/pixel. Interlaced was off. Just doing that alone always caused a failure with the "test" button.
So under advanced I changed the timing standard to "DMT" and desired refresh to "60". Under front end parameters I left scaling type to "Display (none)". That worked fine, though my monitor reports 1400x1050. But all my apps and drivers do see 1680x1050 and not 1400x1050.
I also got the same results by using "CVT reduced blank" under Timing standard. Any other timing mode resulted in a failure when testing. That method also resulted in my monitor reporting 1400x1050 though everything seems to work.
Is there a problem with either mode?
P.S.S.
Under "Change flat panel scaling". If I let nVidia control the scaling or the display device, I always get 1400x1050. However, if I pick one of the regular resolutions like say 1280x1024, then if I let the monitor handle the scaling it reports 1280x1024. If I let nVidia handle the scaling, my monitor reports 1920x1200 since I guess the 8800GTX is handling the scaling. But with the custom resolution I would assume the monitor is doing the scaling regardless of which setting I use. This wasn't a question but an observation. Sorry for the long post.
I bought a Samsung 275T monitor recently and drive it through a 8800GTX (163.44 drivers). So far everything plays fine at 1920x1200. I know there will come a day when I'll have lower the resolution (and soon after that have to get a new graphic card
) This monitor's default resolutions besides 1920x1200 are mainly 4:3 resolutions like 1600x1200, 1280x1024 etc. The only other widescreen resolution is 1600x900. I was thinking of adding another for the future like 1680x1050. My initial attempts using the nVidia drivers didn't work. Powerstrip didn't seem to support GF 8series cards. After some searching through various forums I got 1680x1050 to work via 2 methods. Everything seems fine and the perspectives look correct. But I have two questions.
1. The monitor seems to register 1680x1050 by the graphic card as 1400x1050 through its menu. As I wrote, the graphics look fine, albeit slightly blurry relative to 1920x1200. Whether I set scaling as off, letting the display's built in scaling work, or using nVidia scaling work, the monitor always reports 1400x1050. Does this incorrect reporting matter? Is there a way to get the monitor to also report 1680x1050?
2. Can a LCD monitor be damaged with custom resolutions if the timing parameters ( describe this below in the P.S.) are not quite right? Or if it displays things fine, should I assume everything is fine? I'm not actually planning on using 1680x1050 much but I was just experimenting for the future when I'll likely need it before an upgrade?
Thanks for any advice.
TZL.
P.S. I'll describe what I did to get 1680x1050 to work.
I went into the "Manage custom resolutions" using the Advanced settings tab in the nV control panel. Although some posts in different forums mention clicking on the "Treat as HDTV" and "Allow modes not exposed by the display" to on, I found for me I could keep them off or on and no difference was noticed.
I clicked on "Create" and under "Custom display mode values", entered 1680, 1050, 60 and 32-bit/pixel. Interlaced was off. Just doing that alone always caused a failure with the "test" button.
So under advanced I changed the timing standard to "DMT" and desired refresh to "60". Under front end parameters I left scaling type to "Display (none)". That worked fine, though my monitor reports 1400x1050. But all my apps and drivers do see 1680x1050 and not 1400x1050.
I also got the same results by using "CVT reduced blank" under Timing standard. Any other timing mode resulted in a failure when testing. That method also resulted in my monitor reporting 1400x1050 though everything seems to work.
Is there a problem with either mode?
P.S.S.
Under "Change flat panel scaling". If I let nVidia control the scaling or the display device, I always get 1400x1050. However, if I pick one of the regular resolutions like say 1280x1024, then if I let the monitor handle the scaling it reports 1280x1024. If I let nVidia handle the scaling, my monitor reports 1920x1200 since I guess the 8800GTX is handling the scaling. But with the custom resolution I would assume the monitor is doing the scaling regardless of which setting I use. This wasn't a question but an observation. Sorry for the long post.