Widescreen Gaming Forum

Have you tried 191.07 drivers, plus the latest GXM and Firmware ?

Yes, and on a brand new Vista. I have tried every combination of drivers, GXM and firmware on my older rig, too.
Like I wrote in another thread, I suspect the monitors' model is a crucial part of the solution to the "driver issue". Along with karma.

I suspect the monitors' model is a crucial part of the solution to the "driver issue".

Mmm, that would explain why the new drivers work for just some ppl.

[quote]Ok, so I have the proper drivers mentioned; what is the step-by-step. Because when I try to install GXM after 191.07, it is not setting 5040x1050 resolution even though I tell it to.

Apply the 1680x1050 x 3 here m8 :


It's not listed there; which just makes it more confusing.

It also appears I don't have the GXM section on that page.

Does someone have a link to the PowerDesk version I'm suppose to be using? Maybe the one Matrox is giving me isn't the one you are using.

Does someone have a link to the PowerDesk version I'm suppose to be using? Maybe the one Matrox is giving me isn't the one you are using.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/download/?id=327

And this firmware :

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/download/?id=331

I just installed Win7 Ultimate x64, and this driver set isn't working for me either...

Then again, I've got scavv's monitor type, so I guess it wouldn't be surprising that it's not working for me either.

I'm going to try a driver reinstall just for shiggles, but I'm thinking I'm going to have to fall back to an older driver set.

EDIT: I also have the problem with the widescreen resolutions not checkable in the new Matrox PowerDesk... not sure what the deal is there.

I would just like to confirm this as a working solution.

1 Windows7 x64
1 XFX 8800GTX
2 Westinghouse LCM-22w2 (left and right screens)
1 Viewsonic X Series VX2262wm (center screen)

I was previously using 177.40 as it was the only driver set that would let me go 5040x1050 in either Vista or Win7 (x64, for what it's worth), but I couldn't do dx10 (aero and such). This was also with the gxm_2.04.00.011.

I installed the 2.05.00.020 first to see the way the new menus were set up and to verify that the 177.40 would work with it. Then I installed the 191.07 and went through the motions. Initially after installing the drivers, I was limited to my left and right screens showing my windows desktop, but after running the GXM wizard and setting it for 1440x900 over all 3, I could go into my resolution properties and select 5040x1050. Lo and behold, I have full aero and dx10 effects at 5040!

I know I don't really post here... I only did a while ago to help with the whole "monitors that work under 5040" bit. Props to Nvidia for making it work right, after all this time. Better late than never! (Now Far Cry 2 won't bitch at me about having video drivers that are "too old.")

Thankeees!

p.s. In the 177.40 set, I did have to create the custom rez for 5040. I don't know if it carried over or what, as I didn't run any driver cleaner or anything. I just installed the 191.07.

edit: FC2 wouldn't run in dx10 @5040 and Dead Space just wouldn't start up right. Maybe a reinstall will fix. Hmm.

Got it working too now. Used the wrong XGM for some reason.

Very nice, nVidia!

I wonder if somehow the fact that when I installed 191.07, it defaulted my albeit single screen to 59Hz (which my Hyundai W220D seems to like) is related to the recent successes in setting up multiscreen ...
What I mean is that all previous driver sets I used defaulted my screen to 60Hz (for some reason I always had two frequencies available when choosing resolution : 59Hz & 60Hz)

edit: FC2 wouldn't run in dx10 @5040 and Dead Space just wouldn't start up right. Maybe a reinstall will fix. Hmm.

Make sure you're running the games in windowed mode (not full screen), thats the way i got them working here at 5040x1050 + DX10. :P

Hummmm......

Alt-enter to get it out of widescreen worked fine, but even when I select DX10, I'm still limited to 3360x1050 and if it matters in windowed mode, I can't budge the refresh from 60.

Suggestions?