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Name: mortee
Date: April 19, 2002 at 05:38:28 Pacific
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Does anyone know a way to set the resolution of my screen to a custom value? What I need is to set it to be vertical (e.g. 480x640 or 600x800 or something similar), but no such option is listed in the resolution menu on the display settings panel, and I couldn't find a way to set it by hand either.

BTW, the card is an ATi Radeon VE dualhead one.

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mortee



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Name: Lee
Date: April 19, 2002 at 06:35:54 Pacific
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On monitors that support portrait layout instead of the typical landscape layout, there is a program that comes with the monitor that will rotate the screen so that it fits properly. I've seen one called "rotate" or something like that. The resolutions are not going to be available natively.


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Name: mortee
Date: April 19, 2002 at 14:08:18 Pacific
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Mine isn't a rotatable monitor, it's natively vertical, so I don't need software to rotate the image, but to set a vertical resolution.

Add to it that this is a very old VGA monitor, made by RIC (Royal International Electronics Co.), I don't have any specs, manuals or software for it, and it can't be found on the internet in any form. My only chance is to find a utility that enables me to set it to 480x640 or something similar.


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Name: fred
Date: April 20, 2002 at 16:57:14 Pacific
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You can try this but do it at your own risk:

Change your video resolution to anything you want using regedit. It's recommended you back up your regestry befor tweaking it. Also, dont Go over your video cards min/max resolution.

1. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VIDEO\{3A2C2EBE-ECDB-4A7B-99EC-58117AFDC5E2}\0000\Mon22446688

2. Find 'DefaultSettings.XResolution'. That is your y axis. Edit as a Decimal to what you want it to be. IE 1152.

2. Find 'DefaultSettings.YResolution'. That is your x axis. Edit as a deciaml to waht you want it to be. IE 863.

3. Restart, and your done.


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Response Number 4
Name: mortee
Date: April 21, 2002 at 01:58:38 Pacific
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Thx, this is the kind of info I was looking for! Anyway, can you tell where the mode list is stored? I mean, the contents of the list accessed from Display properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Adapter -> List all modes.


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Response Number 5
Name: mortee
Date: April 21, 2002 at 02:41:07 Pacific
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Again... I tried to modify the above keys, but windos doesn't eat the new values (480x640), it reset it to a minimum-VGA setting. Other ideas?


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