Voodoo5 screen resolution

[Raff3DC]

I've tried this before, but it did not work. Now I was successful – Powerstrip 3.73 and SFFT Alpha 44 work together.

Greetings and thanks,
Raff

[ps47]

Originally posted by Raff3DC

I've tried this before, but it did not work. Now I was successful – Powerstrip 3.73 and SFFT Alpha 44 work together.

Greetings and thanks,
Raff

details please

[Raff3DC]

It's no big thing. Just install Powerstrip and open "Display profiles". On the right side you have to klick ond "Advanced timing options", then on "Custom resolutions". I chose 1680x1050, made a reboot and could set the resolution.

Greetings,
Raff

[Agentbla]

I did encounter the same problem, fortunately the solution was fairly simple.

I am running Win98 on a Voodoo 5500 PCI equipped PC connected to a Samsung 205B monitor which has a native resolution of 1680x1050 (20").

All it took was to edit the 3dfxvs.inf file included in the installation set by adding the following lines:

--->8---cut--- (under ; Modes)

HKR,"MODES\32\1680,1050"

--->8---cut---

and

--->8---cut--- (somewhere between the other similar lines)

HKR,"TIMINGS\1680,1050\60Hz",,,"GTF"
HKR,"TIMINGS\1680,1050\60Hz",Supported,,"BPP+8+16+32,DDRAW"

--->8---cut---

And then reinstalling the driver.

This worked with
- the last official 3dfx driver
- AmigaMerlin 2.9
- Raziel's Evolution Driver 1.01.16
(all for Win98 of course; no idea if this works with Win2000/XP)

It works and is a serious advantage over running the screen at any other interpolated resolution (the Samsung 205B does not offer a 1:1 mode).

There is however a small disadvantage: video overlays no longer work in the 1680x1050 resolution (every other res is unaffected), all video playback is crude and blocky. I tried three different video players (Classic Media Player, BSPlayer, Windows Media Player), three different V5500 drivers (see above), reinstalled DirectX 9, tried numerous 3dfxvs.inf changes (whatever I thought may help), applied a weird Netmeeting trick (see http://www.sebbi.de/archives/2005/01/07/overlay-directdraw-not-working-easy-fix/) and even more. To no avail.

Dxdiag.exe does not report any problems and all DirectDraw, as well as Direct3D tests run without a glitch.

Does anyone know any possible solution? (Apart from a complete Windows reinstall which probably wouldn't help anyway. It has to do with the resolution and the drivers.)

[ps47]

uhh,I dont really have a solution for the overlay,but could you get a shot of your screen when running in the 1680x1050 res? I would like to see if you got this resolution running without distortion (see second shot): http://forum.3dfx.cz/viewtopic.php?t=1666&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20#26560

[Agentbla]

There is no distortion or interpolation, everything is very clear and crisp (as expected).