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03-04-2012, 08:23 PM
About an hour ago I unplugged my old (secondary) monitor and plugged in a newer one. The old one was 17", with a native resolution of 1280x1024. The new screen is 19" but for some reason, won't let me select a resolution above 1280x1024 and it looks a little stretched.

I've installed the screens drivers and rebooted etc. but it's still not letting me select a higher resolution.
Any ideas on how?
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03-05-2012, 07:18 AM
Are your video card drivers also up to date?
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03-05-2012, 05:01 PM
I kinda wanted to save that as a last resort, I've had experience with newer graphics drivers not working with some of my older games before. But it's worth a try, I'll download it now and say whether it worked.
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03-05-2012, 05:21 PM
Did you select widescreen in the settings?
EDIT: Oops I thought you meant ingame.
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03-05-2012, 06:48 PM
Knowing what gfx card you are using might be useful, and I don't think updating your drivers wont make your older games work ;)
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03-05-2012, 10:25 PM
Graphics drivers didn't help anyway :X
The card is an ATI Radeon HD 4850 1gb
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03-06-2012, 07:30 AM
http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards...post926345

Maybe try that?
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03-06-2012, 11:00 AM
That worked, thanks :)
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03-06-2012, 07:38 PM
You're welcome :).
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[20:38:30] <WindowsNT> i just said hello to a friend and instead of "long time" i wrote "unsigned long time"
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03-07-2012, 10:04 AM
(03-05-2012, 10:25 PM)Danny link Wrote: Graphics drivers didn't help anyway :X
The card is an ATI Radeon HD 4850 1gb
hoo, nice. same here.

my monitor is a 1440x900, though :p
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