Deleting unnecessary display modes from Windows XP
godzilla525
Western Pennsylvania Member
Not sure whether to stick this under software or video, but since it's more of a Windows thing than my GFX DDR clock rate, I'm putting it in software...
Does anyone know of a way to get rid of many of the odd resolutions such as 848x480, 1360x768, etc. from Windows XP SP1?
Basically what's happening is that the roughly 2 dozen 16-bit modes are clogging up the menu system on some of my games which leaves me just with the lower 3 resolutions (640x480, 800x600, 848x480) in 32-bit color before the list is truncated. :bawling:
Issues like this don't show up in typical hardware configurations, but when you have a monitor capable of 1920x1440...
Currently using Detonator 43.45 on an ASUS V8200 T2 Deluxe (GF3 Ti200 64MB).
I've noticed this primarily with NFS: High Stakes and NFS: Porsche Unleashed, but the listing might overrun other games as well.
I found the listing in the registry, but it's stored in a different manner than it was in Win9x, and I'm not sure what I can change and what I can't without hosing it. Also, I'm not certain if those entries apply to DirectX at all, since I have noticed in the past that different drivers had different list contents in the programs while the Windows desktop properties always had the same ones.
I did install powerstrip, but I don't see anything on how to delete resolutions... it seems that older versions IIRC had better support for that. :sad2:
Does anyone know of a way to get rid of many of the odd resolutions such as 848x480, 1360x768, etc. from Windows XP SP1?
Basically what's happening is that the roughly 2 dozen 16-bit modes are clogging up the menu system on some of my games which leaves me just with the lower 3 resolutions (640x480, 800x600, 848x480) in 32-bit color before the list is truncated. :bawling:
Issues like this don't show up in typical hardware configurations, but when you have a monitor capable of 1920x1440...
Currently using Detonator 43.45 on an ASUS V8200 T2 Deluxe (GF3 Ti200 64MB).
I've noticed this primarily with NFS: High Stakes and NFS: Porsche Unleashed, but the listing might overrun other games as well.
I found the listing in the registry, but it's stored in a different manner than it was in Win9x, and I'm not sure what I can change and what I can't without hosing it. Also, I'm not certain if those entries apply to DirectX at all, since I have noticed in the past that different drivers had different list contents in the programs while the Windows desktop properties always had the same ones.
I did install powerstrip, but I don't see anything on how to delete resolutions... it seems that older versions IIRC had better support for that. :sad2:
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Do a google after a proggy called Reforce. Very simple and free. Takes care of all the resolution/refresh rate issues on both Nvidia and Ati based videocards.
ReForce did make changes and applied them (double-checked after a reboot just to make sure), but the oddball settings didn't disappear from the Desktop Properties slider, nor did they disappear from the games' listings.
Incidentally, the official links to ReForce are here:
http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/ (HTTP 403)
http://www.geocities.com/greggersuk/refreshforce/ (HTTP 404)
I think my next move will be to try different (hopefully newer) drivers until I find one that doesn't trigger Electronic Arts' "oops-we-never-thought-of-that" bugs. :rolleyes2
Just a thought.
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