Geforce 6600GT = no widescreen ?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:10 am

i set out today to get a 6600 for my media center, and they ended up upgrading me to a 6600GT instead..So i poped this in to replace my old 9800 PRO on my main computer..

Getting ready to play a few rounds, i noticed that all of the widescreen resolutions are gone, i used play Bf2, and Hl2 at 1280X720 before, but now there is just standard 4:3 resolutions.

Now all i have to choose from between both apps and windows are the usuall, 800X600, 1024X768, 1152X864, 1280X1024, 1600X1200, and then the native res of my screen 1920X1200..

i have the latest Nvidia drivers installed ( 91.31 ) and i have reinstalled the driver for the monitor, and also have tryed removing the driver and leaving it at PnPmonitor, still nill...

can you think of anything before i go insane?

ohh, the monitor is a dell 2405FPW btw

Post by **zolborg** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:33 am

Odd. My 9800 Pro just died for the purposes of Quake playing and I just bought a 6600GT. I have a 19" widescreen [Acer] and it works fine. I have it set to 1280X720 right now, but there are many different resolution settings.

And, I just used the drivers provided on the CD. Haven't had time to check the web to get the updates.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:54 am

is that your monitor's native resolution?

as i said, it would do my TFT's native ( 1920X1200 ) that is 16:10 but it wont do anything lower..

Post by **zolborg** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:35 am

I can't remember what the native res was as I changed it immediatley, but I have 12 resolutions available to me ranging from 800x600 to 1440x900.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:20 am

Hummm, 1140X900 would be the native res

so there has to be a diffrence between our setups..

Post by **zolborg** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:31 am

Really. I haven't quite kept up-to-date on this stuff. I find 1440x900 a bit small for my liking.

Yours goes to 1920x1200?? That's quite a lot higher than mine will go.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:46 am

mine is also a 24" Wide, not a 19"

i have been able to tell Nvidia's drivers NOT to Hide the resolutions, but that also shows the ones that the monitor dosent support..

i am running out of things to try here

Post by **SoM** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:08 pm

amidah, your monitor is defective, send it to me :icon32:

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:53 pm

I'm sure you've properly uninstalle all of the ATI drivers before you installed the Nvidia driver. It sound to me like you've got some kind of driver conflict.

Post by **dzjepp** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:43 pm

Sounds like nvidia didn't register the resolutions you want... I take monitor driver is installed? You could possibly reg hack those extra resolutions in there, but there's no guarantee all the games would recognize it still etc.

Did you try refreshforce and put them in maually?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:53 am

there is the option of putting them in manually in the Nvidia Pannel, but i dont know all of them and etc, so it would be a little hard

and the Monitor's driver is installed Via windows update and manually ( from dell ) still nothing..

Gramps: yea man, i used ATi's utility that kills EVERYTHING to do with there product ( or so it says ), i am not experancing the usuall things that come with the Ati Vs NVidia Driver conflict ( Slow performance, Video error's/crashes, etc )

On a side note, i also enabled the HDTV resolutions in the Nvidia pannel, i'm going to reboot to see if that will get some of them back, who knows? it might just work

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:56 am

You have got the latest GeForce drivers yeh? the 91's? did a reinstall on mine and i have loads and loads of rez options!

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:15 pm

i have tryed reinstalling, and i just installed the latest BETA's and still nothing...

it looks like that formatting would be the best chance...

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:13 am

I'm going to suggest the "Your Uninstaller' program again, sorry. But this proggy kills everything, registry entries and all. I'd try that and then reinstall the Nvidia drivers.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:53 am

so you want me to pay 29.99 to download this?

http://www.ursoftware.com/

when there are TONS of Free Catalyst killers out there for free?

i thank you for the suggestion, but i will need to decline

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:37 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:so you want me to pay 29.99 to download this?

http://www.ursoftware.com/

when there are TONS of Free Catalyst killers out there for free?

i thank you for the suggestion, but i will need to decline

Paying for it is up to you.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:16 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:i have been able to tell Nvidia's drivers NOT to Hide the resolutions, but that also shows

the ones that the monitor dosent support.

How do you do that?

AmIdYfReAk wrote:there is the option of putting them in manually in the Nvidia Pannel,

And this?
Is this done with Refreshforce?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:27 pm

Self explanatory.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:33 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:

Self explanatory.

I don't have this option, is it cause I only have a Vanta? Or do I just need newer graphics card drivers?

Also, does this make the resolutions available in other applications or is it just a desktop thing?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:34 pm

this has nothing to do with the thing that you are posting about.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:38 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:this has nothing to do with the thing that you are posting about.

I don't understand. Sorry, I just don't understand. What thing? What has nothing to do with it? (I was just laughing it off.)

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:44 pm

DTS wrote:
AmIdYfReAk wrote:this has nothing to do with the thing that you are posting about.
I don't understand. Sorry, I just don't understand. What thing? What has nothing to do with it? (I was just laughing it off.)

You're talking about using an ancient Vanta card so I'm not surprised at all that you don't see those options. Thats what he's talking about. Btw, its years past time for an upgrade.

Post by **Captain** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:22 pm

Hmm, widescreen works fine for me on my 6600GT