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Resolution help please

DaWG

DaWG

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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
 
What type of monitor is it? The hanns-g 19" has a native res of 1280x1024, and the widescreen version has a native res of 1440x900. At least, the most common models do. What type of connection are you using also? Might be worth checking refresh rate too. I've seen some of these monitors go bad though, and look blurry even in the native res. Trying another monitor/monitor on another pc may help if it gets to that.
 
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?
 
What you say I mostly agree with. However, can you elaborate on what you mean by 'blurry'? I'd suggest as your next move, make sure all drivers are removed and related software. Install driver cleaner (google it) and remove ati gfx stuff. Then download the latest ATI drivers from their website and install (restart inbetween).

If you're using VGA to connect, make sure you've got the monitor to auto setup in it's native res, this may be the issue. Also, as I mentioned, check the refresh rate, and set it to 60hz.

If it's worth anything, i've seen that exact model of monitor (where I work) go bad over time, and produce a blurry image as well as all the buttons on it ceasing to work.

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

OCdude said:
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!)
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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.
 
Yeah I've just typed the model number into google clicked on images and all it's showing is a widescreen model, so the native res would be 1440x900. It's no wonder it looks blurry.
 
Pulled from google.

Hanns.G HW-191D 19" Widescreen TFT LCD Monitor

So yes it's 1440 x 900, all of this time you have been using the wrong res.
 
Surely it's not hard to look at a monitor and figure out if it's widescreen or not? lol

Or am I missing something? :P
 
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