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My monitor is capable of displaying 1600x1200 resolution. However, Windows XP and every game I play says it can only go up to 1280x1024. Is there something I can do to make Windows detect a 1600x1200 capable resolution on my monitor?
Note: The drivers say I can only go up to 1280x1024, so that won't work.
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What video card do you have? Do you have the latest drivers for it? The higher you set the resolution, the more your framerates will drop, so if you don't have a decent gaming card, you shouldn't be running max resolution anway. Plus you're not gonna get great gaming results with only 512MB RAM.
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I'm getting another 512MB of RAM later, I know 512MB isn't a lot. I know my video card very well supports 1600x1200, I'm using an ATI Radeon X1600 PRO.
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Have you installed the lastest Catalyst drivers? version 7.1?
What monitor do you have? If it's an LCD, you may need to install drivers for that as well.
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Yes, I have the 7.1 drivers. Oh yeah, if I untick "Hide Modes Monitor Cannot Display" and set it to 1600x1200, it works! But, when I'm playing games, it only goes up to 1280x1024 and forcing it brings me to 640x480. I have a Dell 783s (non LCD) monitor. The specs say I can only go to 1280x1024, but I can go as high as 1600x1200. Is there a workaround or hack that allows me to force Windows XP, PlugnPlay, or Bios so everything detects that I can go up to 1600x1200?
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"What monitor do you have? If it's an LCD, you may need to install drivers for that as well."
Windows will default to showing you only the settings both the monitor drivers and the monitor model can do.
If you are presently using Plug and Play Monitor drivers, those were put together way back for the first release of XP and I don't think they've changed since - it has no 1600x1200 resolution because it didn't exist when the Plug and Play Monitor driver in XP was made up. And Plug and Play Monitor monitor settings were designed primarily for CRT monitors, not LCD displays or LCD monitors.
Load the drivers that came with the monitor - if your video card is capable of 1600x1200 in it's drivers, the setting will be there by default.
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Oops.
Windows will default to showing you only the settings both the VIDEO drivers and the monitor DRIVERS can do.
If you have the proper drivers for your monitor model loaded:
Windows will default to showing you only the settings both the VIDEO drivers and that monitor model can do.
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Even if your 17" M783s (16" viewable) CRT could display 1600 x 1200, which according to Dell - it COULD NOT. I am sure a 1600 x 1200 resolution on that monitor is going to be too small for almost anything anyway.
I have a 21" LCD from Dell & as is, its native 1600 X 1200 (my preference), when friends & families come over, majority of them complain about the resolution being too small for them.
From that link the only thing Dell says about the 1600 x 1200 resolution is that it is the "Highest addressable resolution", unfortunately this doesn't imply that your 17" CRT is capable of actually displaying it. The highest supported resolution is VESA - 1280 x 1024. If you want anything more - you need to get a bigger monitor & if you are going to be looking at a new one as a replacement, you might as well go with an LCD.
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I agree with Sabertooth.
And even if you can force the monitor to display 1600 x 1200, Dell obviously felt it was not wise to do that, your vertical refresh rate will be lower than the lowest specs on the page he pointed to, you will probably get fewer frames per second than all the lower resolutions, both of those things will make video and games not perform as well as with lower resolutions, and your monitor will probably not last as long.
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