Maybe somebody here knows (Video card help).
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A few weeks ago I was watching the TechTV channel and was watching one of their "live" shows call the The Screen Savers where they demonstrate stuff and give help tips and all that. They have a section on the show where they have viewers call in and ask for some off the wall tech help. Well, one of them was a good question asking about how to set an older video card to different resolution options for things like a widescreen monitor or something like that. Well, I was thinking I could use something like that. I have an old 16MB PCI video card that I had to slap into my system because I don't have a video card that fits the AGP 8X slot. The only current resolution choices I have are 800X600 and 1024X768. My old card used to be able to give the option of 960X680. I want to use that resolution again. On the show they mentioned some kind of utility that would set different resolutions for your video card or that there was actually some kind of file you could alter to set the different options. Anybody know about what I'm talking about? And no, this has nothing to do with monitor settings at all (somebody already tried suggesting that to be somewhere else). It wouldn't simply because I know my monitor can handle it as it is the same monitor I've used before and ti can handle up 1200 something resolution.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
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A few weeks ago I was watching the TechTV channel and was watching one of their "live" shows call the The Screen Savers where they demonstrate stuff and give help tips and all that. They have a section on the show where they have viewers call in and ask for some off the wall tech help. Well, one of them was a good question asking about how to set an older video card to different resolution options for things like a widescreen monitor or something like that. Well, I was thinking I could use something like that. I have an old 16MB PCI video card that I had to slap into my system because I don't have a video card that fits the AGP 8X slot. The only current resolution choices I have are 800X600 and 1024X768. My old card used to be able to give the option of 960X680. I want to use that resolution again. On the show they mentioned some kind of utility that would set different resolutions for your video card or that there was actually some kind of file you could alter to set the different options. Anybody know about what I'm talking about? And no, this has nothing to do with monitor settings at all (somebody already tried suggesting that to be somewhere else). It wouldn't simply because I know my monitor can handle it as it is the same monitor I've used before and ti can handle up 1200 something resolution.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
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