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If you have a working 5040 display, do not "upgrade" to the new Powerdesk software (2_05_00_020)

Yes, i tried it yesterday , back to the beta (working perfectly at 5040x1050 with 182.50 drivers).

The new version still works fine with me, with the 182.50 drivers. We still have the beta hosted if anyone needs it.

Mattsimis, the problem is in the nVidia drivers, not Powerdesk-SE. 182.50 is the answer. :wink:

Mmm, gonna try tonight the new powerdesk + 182.50. :P

Mattsimis, the problem is in the nVidia drivers, not Powerdesk-SE. 182.50 is the answer. :wink:

Problem is both Nvidia and Matrox not working together (software and product support)! 182.50 has woeful performance in certain games (Mirrors Edge for one IRC) and doesnt support Ambient Occlusion, thats hardly a solution.

Im currently running 186.24 with the old PowerDesk. The new one is hard coded to disable itself if it fails to insert the Custom Resolution, which it does each and every time because nVidia made it obsolete even before Matrox put it up on their site. What a waste of resources, all that QA, programming, web hosting, site editing!

Unlike the old Powerdesk, when the Wizard fails you have no Bezel, no Window management etc. Its a huge step backwards.

For the purposes of the resolution support, Matrox's Powerdesk is a glorified Macro. If they stopped condescending customers with these well intentioned though flawed automated processes, we would all be in a better position.

Mattsimis, the problem is in the nVidia drivers, not Powerdesk-SE. 182.50 is the answer. :wink:

I have to agree with mattsimis :
182.50 + "old" Beta PD = 5040x1050@57 right out of the Wizard in my Vista64.
182.50 + new PowerDesk = no-go. :?

182.50+New PD works for me. Once I complete my benchmarking (want to stay consistent on the driver), I'll try the old one with 186.24 (or whatever seems to work at that point).

i tried to install the new powerdesk and got this "Installation ended prematurely because of an error" which is weird, im running at 9800 gtx with 182.50 drivers at 4098x768, when i go up drivers i cant get that resolution anymore. from the latest patch it seems that ati is cooperating with matrox and are actually trying to help the ever growing community of multi monitor users. Nvidia on the other hand isn't? continuous crap drivers which is making me look to amd for graphic cards come next generation, maybe mark b can enlighten us on the cooperation between the companies if at all any, if they are or not and maybe if anything is being done for nvidia cards :(