Widescreen Gaming Forum

I've just recently formated/installed today and ran in to some problems using various drivers such as 182.50 and 190.62 where neither would work properly when being setup through the GXM, and my monitors would display the OCD telling me the res wasn't supported.

So I tried the v191.03 which works well for me under Windows 7 x64 with the latest Matrox GXM software (2.05.00.020). No problems installing at all.

So it appears there's still no consensus as to what definitely does or does not work... There even seems to be differences between Vista & 7, and among users of each OS... What a mess. At least some of us have found a way to get 5040x1050 working on their GT200s - enjoy ! Hopefully the next driver release will not ruin your efforts. :?

All I know is that neither the new firmware, new nvidia drivers (190.56, 190.57, 191.03), new GXM or the various tips posted here and there were of any help to me. To get 5040x1050 working in Vista I *still* need the "old beta" GXM and the 182.50 nv drivers. Guess migrating to 7 is the next smart thing to try.

At least some of us have found a way to get 5040x1050 working on their GT200s - enjoy !

Yes, but still limited to DX9, thats annoying :evil:

[quote]At least some of us have found a way to get 5040x1050 working on their GT200s - enjoy !

Yes, but still limited to DX9, thats annoying :evil:

Yah, I couldn't get Crysis running in DX10 with my GTX280 under win7 x64 with the older drivers, haven't tried with 191.03 though.

On that note, prior to formatting, the 182.5 drivers worked for me, so *shrug*, I don't know.

Playing Aion and Majesty 2 at the moment, and both runs as I'd expect any game to.

Well, it looks like I got 5040X1050 to work with 190.56 and the latest PowerDesk on Win7. However, my games aren't recognizing the resolution. The highest they detect is still 3840x1024.

Did I miss a step somewhere for games to detect the new resolution?

Which games ? DX 10 ?
There shouldn't be anything you need to do for 5040 to be available in games if your desktop works at that res.

Well, that didn't last. A couple restarts later and I'm back to 3840x1024 and no sign of my Added Resolution.

I followed the guidelines to prevent PowerDesk from removing it, but it doesn't look like it worked.

It's not a monitor issue because I can add the 5040x1050 resolution at 57hz and it changes just fine and lasts all day. Games won't pick it up though.

Well I have got myself a copy of Win7 Pro, and no joy on all the things here. Tried about 5 different drivers, 3 GXMs and 2 different firmwares!
When I hit test, no matter what I have tried, it says '5040x1050 is not supported by your display' and that is it.
Ah well back to XP then :(

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you know guys it might be rather question when to hard reset th2go unit than changing drivers

i did forced drivers to set 5040x1050 rez all 3 monitors hang up - off sync
than i hard reset th2go without powering down pc , than image come up in some strange resolution ,than 5040x1050 resolution showed up in power desk i did folow steps and and restart and vuala i had 5040x1050