Resolution help please

[DaWG]

Hey

Just got a new ATI 4670 to replace my old x1900 as recommended here a few weeks back.

Have installed, and all seems okay, but...

on my old card, i was using 1280*1024, which was perfect, have got used to it over the past two years (LCD monitor, Hanns G, can't find a model number right now), but now after having installed this new card & drivers, the default res became 1440 * 900, which looks terrible, or at least, will take me a while to get used to, and when i revert back to 1280*1024, everything seems very blurry.

Do i have to settle for the resolution change? Or is there a way of fixing this?

Cheers in advance X

 

[DaWG]

It's the HW 191D, as you say, native res of 1280*1024.

Appreciate the replies but i think (or at least hope), you're both over-complicating the matter. Like i said, it was fine, but i upgraded from the x1900 to the 4670 in the hope of better graphics, and whilst that's turned out fine, 1280*1024 is now blurry and i have to go to 1380*900, which just looks odd, and more importantly, due to this change, my CSS skills have gone down the pan massively now i have to try getting used to this new resolution.

My point being that surely upgrading a gfx card shouldn't stop you using / change the appearance of a monitors native res? I can't get another monitor / pc. And whilst those tweak drivers look good, i don't really know what i'm doing with them, and surely i shouldn't have do rely on unofficial drivers for such a simple issue?

 

[DaWG]

I googled driver cleaner, but I begrudge paying for a program that I shouldn't have to use in the first place.

Not surprising that the non-native resolutions you're trying look blurry. Also to make matters most likely worse, they're a different aspect ratio, so as well as looking blurry they're going to look stretched/squashed as well. (unless you're running games in a window, but i'm assuming you're not!)

No, this is what's so weird, the non-native resolutions don't look blurry, just slightly stretched (which would be expected), it's solely the native resolution (1280*1024) that looks blurry - it's hard to describe - the edge's of everything are softened - everything lacks definiton.

I am using the latest ati drivers as well.