Radeon 9000 pro with widescreen LCD

[Geoff]

I'm researching what LCD monitor to buy, and am considering a couple of
widescreen ones. However, I can't find out if my graphics card will
support them or not (despite a lot of Googling). I have an ATI Radeon
9000 Pro (64MB). The monitors I'm looking at are either 19" or 20" wide,
so that's 1440 by 900 or 1,680 by 1,050. I'm aware that the card can do
higher resolutions but I don't know about those ratios. I have read a
few clues on forums that the card will be ok but nothing definate for my
particular model. So I'd appreciate any definate answer to this please.

Thanks,
Geoff.

 

[Man-wai Chang]

I'm researching what LCD monitor to buy, and am considering a couple of
widescreen ones. However, I can't find out if my graphics card will
support them or not (despite a lot of Googling). I have an ATI Radeon
9000 Pro (64MB). The monitors I'm looking at are either 19" or 20" wide,
so that's 1440 by 900 or 1,680 by 1,050. I'm aware that the card can do
higher resolutions but I don't know about those ratios. I have read a
few clues on forums that the card will be ok but nothing definate for my
particular model. So I'd appreciate any definate answer to this please.

You can see a complete list of video modes by
right-click desktop, properties, settings,
advanced, adaptor, list all modes

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[Rusty]

I'm researching what LCD monitor to buy, and am considering a couple of
widescreen ones. However, I can't find out if my graphics card will
support them or not (despite a lot of Googling). I have an ATI Radeon
9000 Pro (64MB). The monitors I'm looking at are either 19" or 20" wide,
so that's 1440 by 900 or 1,680 by 1,050. I'm aware that the card can do
higher resolutions but I don't know about those ratios. I have read a
few clues on forums that the card will be ok but nothing definate for my
particular model. So I'd appreciate any definate answer to this please.

Thanks,
Geoff.

http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9000/radeon9000pro/specs.html

The only 16x9 mode listed is 1920x1080, but you will want to check
using the "List all modes" method mentioned previously as driver
upgrades sometimes enable new resolutions.

 

[Geoff]

Thanks for both those replies. I wasn't sure if 'list all modes' showed
modes just for my connected monitor or all possible modes. It doesn't
list the widescreen resolutions I need so I guess I'll just have to go
for a non-wide monitor. I could maybe get a cheap graphics card, but the
cheap ones have noisy fans which will be a real annoyance for me -
Unless anyone can suggest a way around this? Whatever I do it's more
money that I don't have. From the monitors I've seen though, some of the
wide ones are cheaper than 5:3's that have worse reviews! So I'm not
sure what to do.

Thanks for your help guys,
Geoff.

 

[Bob Huntley]

Have a look at my "Maybe OT..." thread - started a couple of days ago. Not
getting many replies yet, but you may get some useful feedback from the
experts out there.

I've got a Radeon X1800XL, and using Powerstrip have managed to get it
working at 1680 * 1050 on my new widescreen monitor. For some reason, it
failed to correctly detect the screen's resolution on its own. I've now
confirmed that it works in GL games (Doom 3 etc.) - and its now working in
Direct X games as well (bit of a kludge here - have to go into the game, use
a Powerstrip hot key to select the correct resolution - which the game
ignores but then allows me to choose it from the Display Options menu).

Suggest that you experiment with Powerstrip - its shareware, so it doesn't
cost anything until you've decided to keep it. The demo is fully functional,
just a nag screen on boot-up that you can't prevent without registering.

 

[Geoff]

Have a look at my "Maybe OT..." thread - started a couple of days ago. Not
getting many replies yet, but you may get some useful feedback from the
experts out there.

I've got a Radeon X1800XL, and using Powerstrip have managed to get it
working at 1680 * 1050 on my new widescreen monitor. For some reason, it
failed to correctly detect the screen's resolution on its own. I've now
confirmed that it works in GL games (Doom 3 etc.) - and its now working in
Direct X games as well (bit of a kludge here - have to go into the game, use
a Powerstrip hot key to select the correct resolution - which the game
ignores but then allows me to choose it from the Display Options menu).

Suggest that you experiment with Powerstrip - its shareware, so it doesn't
cost anything until you've decided to keep it. The demo is fully functional,
just a nag screen on boot-up that you can't prevent without registering.

Hi Bob. I was wondering about getting a cheapo Radeon X1300 to solve
this (noise dependant) but if your X1800XL won't do that resolution, the
X1300 won't either. I read about Powerstrip and it is one of my options.
I have a few worries about various issues relating to it but I'll
definately find that other thread of yours and have a read. I'm itching
to say more about the various monitors I'm looking at but I guess I
should do that in another group. Thanks for your comments,
Geoff.

 

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F.Y.I.

The resolutions you are looking for ~won't~ show up unless you have
installed a widescreen monitor file. My x800xl didn't have 10:6 res's until
I installed the inf for my TFT.

P.S. - your 9000 should do 9:6 10:6 fine in 2d.... but don't think it would
hold up under 3d requirements.

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[Geoff]

F.Y.I.

The resolutions you are looking for ~won't~ show up unless you have
installed a widescreen monitor file. My x800xl didn't have 10:6 res's until
I installed the inf for my TFT.

P.S. - your 9000 should do 9:6 10:6 fine in 2d.... but don't think it would
hold up under 3d requirements.

Thanks for that. I think that as long as it did ok for now in 2D then
I'd still get the widescreen monitor and upgrade the graphics card when
I could afford it. So it looks like I'll have to upgrade my video card
sometime then anyway, so my next mission is to research that.