How do I get 1366x768 VGA Output?

Domo · 2 Feb 2007 at 11:49

Is this possible - just got a 42" LCD and would like to get PC to display properly via VGA. PC display property settings are fixed at 1400x1050 (can't move the slider) and colour quality is fixed at medium 16 bit.

Any help or pointers would be great

Cuchulain · 2 Feb 2007 at 11:53

Domo said:
Is this possible - just got a 42" LCD and would like to get PC to display properly via VGA. PC display property settings are fixed at 1400x1050 (can't move the slider) and colour quality is fixed at medium 16 bit.

Any help or pointers would be great

Depending on your card there should be an option to "include HDTV resolutions" somewhere in your control panel.

Mud · 2 Feb 2007 at 11:58

Worth mentioning you won't get 1366x768 (at least not easily), 1360x768 is your best bet. What graphics card are you using?

jellybeard999 · 2 Feb 2007 at 12:31

From a review of my moderately cheap HDTV

Getting this to work at its native resolution via a PC was trickier than I was hoping. Both ATI and nVidia cards can only support resolutions that are divisible by eight, of which 1366 is not. So in order to get this resolution working, it required a little bit of fiddling that wasn't instantly obvious. On my 7800 GTX, this involved running 1,368 x 768 and then changing the front-end resolution in the advanced timings portion of the drivers to 1366 - this effectively chops of a pixel row on either side. In ATI drivers, this involves using PowerStrip. Hopefully both companies will sort out official support for this resolution in future drivers.