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02-18-2004, 10:53 PM
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Reconsidering XP
I know that I am on record as a bona-fide and registered dislike'er of XP.
 However, I am considering switching to XP to <hopefully) fix some of the resolution problems I am having with W2K. So, my question is this. Since XP is more graphically enhanced can I expect better resolution settings?
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02-18-2004, 11:05 PM
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It has the same resolution settings? And you can turn off all the eyecandy to make it look like W2k...
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02-19-2004, 12:04 AM
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Not positive about this, but I believe that the available resolutions are provided by the driver and merely presented by the operating system.
(If I am wrong, I'm sure others will enjoy setting me straight )
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02-19-2004, 09:34 AM
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Have you tried Powerstrip?
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Barring that, I would like to see 1080x480 with clearer definition of the text. In answer to a previous question, yes I use POWERSTRIP. But the settings never stay and I find myself re-setting some settings everytime the screen changes.
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02-19-2004, 12:27 PM
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I went through this with my current desktop when I purchesed a 23" Widescreen LCD monitor. Resolutions are controlled by the combination of what the driver supports for the card and, THIS VERY IMPORTANT, what monitor.inf file is used to spec what the monitor can handle.
My new monitor did not come with a monitor.inf file so it used the windows default and it only gave you the standard XGA resolutions. I mad my own and added the resolutions I wanted and that the monitor could support and it works flawlessly. I believe Powerstrip has the capability to create one for you as well as there are resources on the web to hand build one.
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02-19-2004, 01:44 PM
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I have been thinking of buying powerstrip for the sole purpose of setting my output to 720x480 (probably @ 60HZ I guess). So are you saying that I can build a monitor inf file and get the same results w/o buying powerstrip.
This would be good, powerstrip seemed a big of overkill to just make one setting. Anybody got more info on this ?
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