5punk

I've got a new shiny display, it's fast, beautiful, huge, and... only supports up to 1280x1024. Who the fuck designed that, I mean it looks like as if it was 640x480 on my old display. Anyway, is there a tweaky program thing that can go higher than that? Anything I tried so far stubbornly settled down at the highest "officially supported" by the display.

(Note: I'm not a techy. If not being able to do that is because of real world technology, feel free to abuse.)

Er.

No.

friznit wrote:Er.

No.

If it only has 1280 pixels across its width, then that's pretty much a limiting factor.

No, because of the way lcd's work, you really do have 1280x1024 pixels sitting infront of you.

A you can make a crapper resolution scale to fit more than one lcd pixel, but not the other way around (eg using half or 1/4 of an pixel, it's impossible).

not quite the techy i used to be...but do you have the right video driver?

I see. Move along, nothing to see here.

Baliame wrote:I see. Move along, nothing to see here.

Valid enough question though. Odd a monitor only supporting that resolution.

got a link to the monitor?

it's possible it has more supported resolutions that your drivers aren't seeing, but it's pretty unlikely.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:got a link to the monitor?

it's possible it has more supported resolutions that your drivers aren't seeing, but it's pretty unlikely.

Driver cleaning and reinstalling seems to have made 1600x1200 available.

Woo yay etc. Sadly my two 21" monitors really do only go as far as 1280x1024. Probably about time I upgraded. In fact I really should upgrade the whole thing given it's nearly 2 years old. But then, I really cba right now

Baliame wrote:Driver cleaning and reinstalling seems to have made 1600x1200 available.

woot! i guessed right....i am a techy....i am a techy!