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Can't save graphics card settings for resolution

TeaganP

TeaganP

TeaganP

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Hi there,

I'm having a problem at the moment. I've just built a new machine, everything seems to be working fine with it apart from a little problem with the display driver so it seems. I'm running a ATI Radeon HD 5670 card and I've tried installing the latest driver which is 11.8 on it and that all installed just fine but the resolution isn't saving for some reason when I change it in the catalyst control centre. Like for example I'm setting my desktop resolution to 1366 x 768 and everytime I reboot my machine it's reverting back to the resolution 1280 x 768 instead.

I've just tried going back to an earlier driver from ATI and I've just managed to install the 11.7 driver for it but when I rebooted after I'd changed it to 1366 x 768 it had gone back to the other setting again.

It's annoying because I don't want 1280 x 768 as my graphics card resolution, do you think I should go back yet again and try another earlier driver to see if it's something to do with that or maybe do you think there's another answer for this problem?

Any suggestions or help is very greatly appreciated!
 
I was just messing around with it again, I'm not sure now if it's got anything to do with the graphics driver and if I were changing it I don't think it would make any difference.

I managed to get it to save the setting for the resolution and I did this by disabling my TV as a clone device. I also have a TV connected to my graphics card via HDMI cable but when I don't have it enabled or cloned in the control centre it allows me to change the setting and when I reboot my machine it comes up working in the correct resolution.

The problem still stands though that when I have my TV cloned with my monitor it is coming up at 1280 x 720 which isn't the resolution that I want to use my monitor on.

Does anybody know why this is happening? All I want is to set my graphics card at 1366 x 768. It worked on my old AGP graphics card I was using so I don't see why it shouldn't work the same on this new one?
 
kedge said:
You can't have cloned mode with different resolutions, cloned also means duplicate. You have to set the screens up seperately. Your tv probably doesn't do 1366x768?.
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Yes but on my old setup I had an old AGP card, it was an Asus card actually and I had them both cloned at the same which was 1366 x 768 and it worked just fine. With this new card it's only allowing me to have 1280 x 720 and not anything else which doesn't seem right to me.
 
Please if somebody can offer some kind of decent answer to my problem? Nobody has replied to my thread, I've waited all day now. I just need to know how I can go about changing my resolution over to a slightly higher one than it keeps setting back to.

I know that it's the fault of having my TV connected to my graphics card also, I never had a problem on my old graphics card. Everytime now when I reboot it goes back to 1280 x 720 but it shouldn't be doing this? :mad:

It's a pain in the ass and it's annoying, this is not right, there's obviously something wrong with it. Like I said it worked fine on my old card, my TV can display that resolution no problem as I've already proved. What can I do to get around this, it's doing my head in :confused:
 
Presumably your TV is seen as 720p and that's why it won't let you change the resolution.

Right click on the desktop, select screen resolution, click on advanced settings, click on the monitor tab, untick the box for "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display".

You should now be able to select different resolutions and refresh rates. Be careful with this because if you select a mode the screen can't display it will go blank. If that happens then wait 30 seconds and hopefully the settings will revert back to the working settings.

If it buggers up completely switch off the PC, restart in safe mode and reset the resolution.
 
Surveyor said:
Presumably your TV is seen as 720p and that's why it won't let you change the resolution.

Right click on the desktop, select screen resolution, click on advanced settings, click on the monitor tab, untick the box for "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display".

You should now be able to select different resolutions and refresh rates. Be careful with this because if you select a mode the screen can't display it will go blank. If that happens then wait 30 seconds and hopefully the settings will revert back to the working settings.

If it buggers up completely switch off the PC, restart in safe mode and reset the resolution.
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Cheers mate, that worked. I changed that setting and it's actually saving the setting now.
 
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