Wrong Native Res supported on 27" LCD

NeptuneUK

NeptuneUK

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I have a generic 27" LCD that I have been running at 1336x768 for about two weeks now. I assumed that this was the native res (even though it's ****) as it was the only one supported in windows (and via the nvidia control panel)
I recently upgraded the NVIDIA drivers and the monitor is now stuck at 1280x768.
When uninstalling the drivers and then reinstalling them I noticed (after the uninstallation, so using windows default drivers) I was able to set the resolution to 1600x1200.
1600x1200 looked slightly blurry though so I NOW believe the native resolution should be 1680x1250 even though it wasn't available before.
I have reinstalled the old drivers that worked with the 1366x786 res but I'm still stuck at 1280x786.
I am unable to force the correct res with the NVIDIA driver now either as when trying to add an unsupported res there are no options.
It says I can create a custom resolution, but that doesn't work either?

Any ideas? I have tried uninstalling the monitor drivers but that doesn't help, I am also unable to run any games in fullscreen mode as I either get an 'input not supported' or just a blank screen.

Edit: Windows says it is a n27xa22-2, but there is no information about this on the net.
 
Update: I managed to force a 1680x1250 res but it was far too skewed to the left hand side to use. 1600x1200 no longer works at all.
 
Im using DVI -> VGA.
I can see now how this might be causing my ballache.

I have it at a relatively low headache inducing res of 1440x900 now. Some of the text looks a little over truetype-fonted but I think it's the best I can do for now until I see a good B-grade monitor on offer in the shop.
Still hurts my eyes though.
 
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NeptuneUK said:
Im using DVI -> VGA.
I can see now how this might be causing my ballache.

I have it at a relatively low headache inducing res of 1440x900 now. Some of the text looks a little over truetype-fonted but I think it's the best I can do for now until I see a good B-grade monitor on offer in the shop.
Still hurts my eyes though.
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B Grade monitors are likely ones that somebody sent back.

Maybe they just didn't like it, maybe it had dead/faulty pixels.

You take your chances buying one.
 
Surveyor said:
Does the monitor only have a VGA connection?

What version of Windows are you using?

Edit

Are you sure this is a PC monitor and not a TV?
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Ok yeah it's a TV. Hence no proper driver support. I can't even find the correct native res for this thing. 1336x768 looks too low and 1650x1080 looks too high. I'll have to make do with this until fate allows me to purchase something proper.
I have a phenom black x6 and a GTX570 so I assume HD resolutions shouldn't be an issue with gaming in the future.
 
NeptuneUK said:
Ok yeah it's a TV. Hence no proper driver support. I can't even find the correct native res for this thing. 1336x768 looks too low and 1650x1080 looks too high. I'll have to make do with this until fate allows me to purchase something proper.
I have a phenom black x6 and a GTX570 so I assume HD resolutions shouldn't be an issue with gaming in the future.
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If it's described as a HD Ready TV then the native resolution will almost certainly be 1366x768 so that's what you should use.

If it's a full HD TV then it'll be 1920x1080.

I would say it's more likely to be 1366x768 if it's a few years old.
 
You can't run an lcd at a higher resolution than it's native one, I do believe that some displays can accept a higher resolution than they natively support but they will scale the picture down to their maximum native res to display it. The reason for this is the native resolution is the number of pixels the display has, you can't go beyond that.

I have also seen software that can allow a monitor to display an image greater than it's native resolution by forcing the image to scroll, so say if you were displaying a desktop at a higher than native resolution, then you wouldn't be able to see all of it on screen at any one time, and when the cursor reached the edge of the displayed image it would scroll.

But an lcd can not display more than it's total number of pixels, it's impossible.
 
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