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Title: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by elfuego on 12.01.09 at 00:28:47

How does V5 5500 cope with wide screen resolutions? As far as I can remember, 3dfx only supported normal 4:3 resolutions: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.

What about 1400x1050, or 1280x800 or similar? I went yesterday to Media Markt/Saturn to get a cheap new monitor and literally every single one was wide screen! :( Do new drivers allow custom resolutions?

Title: Re: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by ps47 on 12.01.09 at 02:16:18

it should be relatively easy to add custom resolutions,either with powerstrip or by some registry hacking (it has been done before)..note: the max supported dvi resolution is 1600*1200,that means 1680x1050 wont work..lower res on the dvi should be ok.

Title: Re: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by sigtau on 16.01.09 at 14:38:39

I have a V4 4500 running on XP connected to my new Sony 52" LCD via the VGA port. The drivers automatically detected the 1080 res and I was able to run 1920x1080. Problem is everything is super tiny and it's hard to read even text from 10 feet away. The start button was only 1 inch tall! 1360x768 ended up being a much better resolution to use. I used powerstrip to set it up.

But remember, this was all done using the VGA port. I once tried to use the DVI port on a V5 PCI MAC card and used a DVI - to - HDMI cable to connect it to my older HDTV. It was it was stuck at some super low res and really didn't work well at all. I even tried powerstrip, but I don't think it wanted to really work right.

Title: Re: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by Tim on 16.01.09 at 17:40:24

Can you not get a cheap monitor from eBay? I've got a CRT just for testing purposes.

Mine was only £10, and shipping was very cheap too. :)

Title: Re: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by elfuego on 16.01.09 at 18:54:35

The problem is that I really dont have enough space for a CRT monitor. As the matter affect, I dont even have enough place for a big TFT - I'm living in a 4x2.5m student room ;) Here I'm currently working on a 7" EeePC 8-)

I found in Media Markt some cheap viewsonic monitors (about 120-140e) with 1280x800 and a VGA connector - can powerstrip "strip" the V5 to this resolution? I only have VGA output on my new V5.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by ps47 on 17.01.09 at 01:51:05

should work ok.

Title: Re: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by elfuego on 17.01.09 at 05:24:02

Thanks. I'll try it out! :)

Title: Re: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by Narmounet on 17.01.09 at 11:48:36

It seems that VSA 100 is supporting natively non 4:3 resolution.
Look at the V4 box :
http://images.camarades-pc.fr/M0396399001232185546_600.jpg

Title: Re: Wide screen and V5 5500
Post by elfuego on 17.01.09 at 23:13:49

Thanks! Just in case I bought myself a used 17" 4:3 TFT over the Ebay. I hope it works... as the matter affect I hope the guy sends it eventually... :-/