New Widescreen Monitor on Old Graphics Card

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Hello,

I am attempting to get a new widescreen monitor (1440x900 native) to work on
an old graphics card that only has default settings for 4x3 based monitors.

Some tinkering in the graphics cards driver settings has enabled me to
select a 1376x800 widescreen mode using a "standard monitor types", but
because this is not quite the native resolution of the monitor the results
are less than ideal. A couple of other widescreen standard monitor types were
present, but this was the closest available.

This got me thinking though that I should be able to add a new "standard
monitor type" somehow, perhaps to the registry settings where I have found
all the display types listed under the graphics card settings.

My question therefore is, does anyone know how to add to the default XP list
of standard monitor modes?

Hope someone can help, thanks in advance.

Regards
Malcolm Dowers
 
Malcolm said:
Hello,

I am attempting to get a new widescreen monitor (1440x900 native) to work on
an old graphics card that only has default settings for 4x3 based monitors.

Some tinkering in the graphics cards driver settings has enabled me to
select a 1376x800 widescreen mode using a "standard monitor types", but
because this is not quite the native resolution of the monitor the results
are less than ideal. A couple of other widescreen standard monitor types were
present, but this was the closest available.

This got me thinking though that I should be able to add a new "standard
monitor type" somehow, perhaps to the registry settings where I have found
all the display types listed under the graphics card settings.

My question therefore is, does anyone know how to add to the default XP list
of standard monitor modes?

Hope someone can help, thanks in advance.

Regards
Malcolm Dowers
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A long, long time ago, it was possible to write simple driver programs.
But Windows XP is really too complicated to do it from scratch. If the
supporting software for the installed graphics card does not allow for
custom settings, then the onlyl viable option is to get a new video card
to suit the new widescreen monitor. This is merely the way of progress.
 
It is possible that there is an updated driver for your video card on the
manufacturers site, but most likely even a cheap current card will far
outperform an old one.
 
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