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windows x64 does not believe my monitor is 1680x1050 (with newest nvidia drivers)

lawfulfalafellawfulfalafel Registered User new member
edited September 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
For some reason windows x64 does not believe that my screen is 1680x1050. But maybe its nvidias fault. I have a 7900 gto with the newest drivers on x64 (obviously) and basically my monitor 'pans': as in it thinks the resolution is bigger than it actually is. As in I put my mouse on the rightmost side and the screen moves to the right. I know for damn sure that my monitor is 1680x1050. It is a vg2230wm viewsonic actually. Besides this incredibly annoying feature, not much is wrong. Right now the res is bumped down to 1440x900, and it seems pretty decent, but I would really really like to get it back to 1680x1050 if possible.

Has this happened to anyone? Is there anyway to fix it? Thanks!

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  • NarketNarket __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    I believe this same problem happened to a friend of mine. All he did was get a different (special) cord to run from the tower to the monitor. I am at work right now, but i'll try to get a hold of him and find out exactly what it was and let you know when i can.

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  • cfgausscfgauss Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Do you have the newest *monitor* drivers?

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  • meekermeeker Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    had the same problem with my Veiwsonic when I updated to the new drivers. They included a new Nvidia Control Panel that was really shitty, so I went back to the older drivers. Works fine, no panning and I can see my system tray again...

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  • pacbowlpacbowl Los AngelesRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    For some reason windows x64 does not believe that my screen is 1680x1050.

    A friend of mine has the exact same problem on his 7900. It has to do with the shoddy quality of nVidias latest batch of drivers. Rolling back to a couple versions ago fixed it but of course this will affect newer games; Bioshock, Crysis beta and possibly TF2.

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  • bbmartinibbmartini Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    i have that same monitor and had that same problem with a 7800gt, i rolled back the drivers the first time then updated to the beta drivers and now its fine.

    edit: beta drivers http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

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