Widescreen resolutions

Does anyone know how to add widescreen resolutions to Windows vista home
premium X64. I am using an AMD athlon Dual core 3800+ and a geforce 7600GT
graphics card with the latest drivers

"sephy666" wrote:

> Does anyone know how to add widescreen resolutions to Windows vista home
> premium X64. I am using an AMD athlon Dual core 3800+ and a geforce 7600GT
> graphics card with the latest drivers

By the way My monitor is an ACER AL1916w and runs at 1440x900

"sephy666" wrote:

> Does anyone know how to add widescreen resolutions to Windows vista home
> premium X64. I am using an AMD athlon Dual core 3800+ and a geforce 7600GT
> graphics card with the latest drivers

I want My ACER AL1916w to run at 1440x900 resolution

/sephy666/ said:

> Does anyone know how to add widescreen resolutions to Windows vista home
> premium X64. I am using an AMD athlon Dual core 3800+ and a geforce 7600GT
> graphics card with the latest drivers

Normally a function of the video adapter's drivers and capabilities.
Visit the chip or card maker's WEBsite for the appropriate driver.

"dev" wrote:

> /sephy666/ said:
>
> > Does anyone know how to add widescreen resolutions to Windows vista home
> > premium X64. I am using an AMD athlon Dual core 3800+ and a geforce 7600GT
> > graphics card with the latest drivers
>
> Normally a function of the video adapter's drivers and capabilities.
> Visit the chip or card maker's WEBsite for the appropriate driver.
>
It was working before with windows XP.

I had to load up the Nvidia classic control panel and insert the new
resolution in the resolutions section but Vista has no section for that.

"sephy666" wrote
> "dev" wrote:
>
>> /sephy666/ said:
>>
>> > Does anyone know how to add widescreen resolutions to Windows vista
>> > home
>> > premium X64. I am using an AMD athlon Dual core 3800+ and a geforce
>> > 7600GT
>> > graphics card with the latest drivers
>>
>> Normally a function of the video adapter's drivers and capabilities.
>> Visit the chip or card maker's WEBsite for the appropriate driver.
>>
> It was working before with windows XP.
>
> I had to load up the Nvidia classic control panel and insert the new
> resolution in the resolutions section but Vista has no section for that.

As dev said it's a function of the driver.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

"sephy666" <sephy666@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to add widescreen resolutions to Windows vista home
> premium X64. I am using an AMD athlon Dual core 3800+ and a geforce 7600GT
> graphics card with the latest drivers

I am using Vista Home Premium with an AMD athlon Dual core 4200 + geforce
7600GS (with a passive heat sink but probably otherwise similar to yours),
with Samsung SyncMaster 205BW as monitor #1 at its native 1680 x 1050 pixels
(in digital mode) and an older Samsung SyncMaster 172N as monitor #2 at its
native 1280 x 1024 (in analogue mode). Windows update has been finding a lot
of new Nvidia drivers in the last few weeks and each time it gets better.
Nvidia has its own control panel and everything adjusts easily. Autoruns has
these Nvidia items running from Vista Logon:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
+ NvCplDaemon NVIDIA Display Properties Extension NVIDIA Corporation
c:\windows\system32\nvcpl.dll
+ NvMediaCenter NVIDIA Media Center Library NVIDIA Corporation
c:\windows\system32\nvmctray.dll
+ NvSvc NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 158.18 NVIDIA Corporation
c:\windows\system32\nvsvc.dll
So it is generally capable of working once you find the right drivers on
Nvidia's website. Once you get somewhere near it Windows Update should look
after it automatically - I guess that is via the NVIDIA Driver Helper
Service listed above.

The download I used came from somewhere like:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/forceware_geforce.html

and was named:
158.18_forceware_winvista_32bit_international_whql .exe
though that might have been three weeks ago and so I guess is a little out
of date now.
Hope this helps a bit - at least you will see that you have a very good
chance of getting it working - Doug

What Doug said.

Another option is to set a custom resolution in the software provided by your graphics card manufacturer.(Example.. NVidia control panel). If the card is capable of supporting higher resolutions than 1600 x 1050, you should be able to set a custom resolution (for 1600x1050) without a problem.

For NVIDIA cards, here is the info (from NVIDIA support) to set a custom resolution:

<quote>
Please follow the steps below to customize the resolution:

1) Right click on the Desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel.

2) Once the control panel opens, click on Display

3) Under Appearance, select "Manage custom timings"

4) On the Manage custom timings page click on Create

5) On the Custom Timings page, under Custom display mode values please type in the required resolution.

6) Once the required resolution is added, click on test button and add the required resolution.

7) Then click on the NVIDIA Icon on the Taskbar of the Desktop and select the added resolution fro the screen resolution tab.

Please feel free to contact us, if you have any further questions.

Regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care.

</quote>


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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


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"sephy666" <sephy666@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to add widescreen resolutions to Windows vista home
> premium X64. I am using an AMD athlon Dual core 3800+ and a geforce 7600GT
> graphics card with the latest drivers

I am using Vista Home Premium with an AMD athlon Dual core 4200 + geforce
7600GS (with a passive heat sink but probably otherwise similar to yours),
with Samsung SyncMaster 205BW as monitor #1 at its native 1680 x 1050 pixels
(in digital mode) and an older Samsung SyncMaster 172N as monitor #2 at its
native 1280 x 1024 (in analogue mode). Windows update has been finding a lot
of new Nvidia drivers in the last few weeks and each time it gets better.
Nvidia has its own control panel and everything adjusts easily. Autoruns has
these Nvidia items running from Vista Logon:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
+ NvCplDaemon NVIDIA Display Properties Extension NVIDIA Corporation
c:\windows\system32\nvcpl.dll
+ NvMediaCenter NVIDIA Media Center Library NVIDIA Corporation
c:\windows\system32\nvmctray.dll
+ NvSvc NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 158.18 NVIDIA Corporation
c:\windows\system32\nvsvc.dll
So it is generally capable of working once you find the right drivers on
Nvidia's website. Once you get somewhere near it Windows Update should look
after it automatically - I guess that is via the NVIDIA Driver Helper
Service listed above.

The download I used came from somewhere like:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/forceware_geforce.html

and was named:
158.18_forceware_winvista_32bit_international_whql .exe
though that might have been three weeks ago and so I guess is a little out
of date now.
Hope this helps a bit - at least you will see that you have a very good
chance of getting it working - Doug