Resolution issue..

Hi Folks,

I play Path of Exile, have a QX9650 CPU with 6GB RAM (that I finished
building in 2009) running W7 64-bit and was using an HD5670 / 1GBDDR5.
However I was having to turn details down to keep a decent frame rate so
recently bought a lightly-used second-hand Sapphire HD7770.

I've been using CCC 13.12 for a while now with no problems. My monitor is an
oldie but a goodie - A Dell 4:3 20" UXGA (1600x1200) IPS. I don't like
short-screens for desktop use. However, when I play games I use 1600x900
resolution as games seem to be designed to work better in short-screen mode.
(They seem to set the size of the toon as a function of the vertical
resolution so to get a reasonable amount on-screen at any one time the wider
the better - within reason. This applies to the two games I play - Path of
Exile mainly but also a bit of Diablo III.) This was never a problem with
the HD5670, I'd just select 1600x900 / fullscreen in-game and away I went.
Nice crystal clear picture with small black bars above and below. (I like
playing full-screen mode and with the picture mapped pixel-to-pixel.)

However, with the same driver and the HD7770 I don't get an option of
1600x900 in Path of Exile (which is odd as wasn't that a fairly common
resolution for 19" short-screens?). I get the full 1600x1200 offered,
followed by 1280x720, 1280x768, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1360x768,
1360x1024, 1366x758 ad nauseam right down to 800x600. I can select any of
the lower res modes and have them blurry - or have it windowed and have it
clear but small.

When it's windowed I can drag the window out to the edges of the screen (or
duoble-click the titlebar) - but the biggest it goes is 1600x1178 (and has
(custom) after it) - it reserves the other 22 pixels for the window's
titlebar. However when I try to drop the vertical resolution down to 900 the
horizontal reduces to 1594!!!! (And it's still windowed which I'd rather not
have...)

Can anyone help please? At the moment it seems I have a choice of the old
HD5670 full-screen 1600x900 but with low details and frame-rate or the
HD7770 running much faster but either windowed or running an ugly
resolution.

Thanks in advance.
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Have you tried tech support for Path of Exile, and their forums?

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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Ed Light wrote:
Have you tried tech support for Path of Exile, and their forums?

Hi Ed,

Yes, I've asked in their tech support forums and as yet have no answers. :-/

I don't get why one card offers diiferent resolutions to another using the
same driver with the same maximum size panel - when they both *do* the
maximum size. It's not like 1600x900 is unheard-of - I saw it many, many
times while Googling for a fix. (No fix - nobody with my specific problem
that I could find but a *lot* of [19"] 1600x900 short-screen monitors out
there....)

Thanks for the reply,
--
/Shaun

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

Somewhere on teh intarwebs ~misfit~ wrote:
Somewhere on teh intarwebs Ed Light wrote:
Have you tried tech support for Path of Exile, and their forums?

Hi Ed,

Yes, I've asked in their tech support forums and as yet have no
answers. :-/
I don't get why one card offers diiferent resolutions to another
using the same driver with the same maximum size panel - when they
both *do* the maximum size. It's not like 1600x900 is unheard-of - I
saw it many, many times while Googling for a fix. (No fix - nobody
with my specific problem that I could find but a *lot* of [19"]
1600x900 short-screen monitors out there....)

Thanks for the reply,

Hmmm, I've had several suggestions from Grinding Gear Games (who make Path
of Exile) about this but nothing takes - so I installed Diablo 3 and find I
have exactly the same issue!

So I ask the original question again - and hope that someone can help me.
The HD7770 *was* second-hand but I'm assured that it was in excellent
condition and had no faults. The ~16 y/o who sold it just wanted a more
powerful gaming card as this one was 12 months old.

Help please?
--
/Shaun

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

AMD Tech Support may be able to help you. They've helped me.

Are you running the latest driver? Maybe uninstalling the current one,
rebooting, and putting in the newest might help. It could be a thing
that was fixed.

Also, maybe be sure you've installed the driver from the monitor
company, and reinstall it each time after changing video drivers.

Also, maybe in the control center under My VGA Displays (or Panels),
Properties, Monitor Attributes, try toggling the Use EDID and see what's
available each way.

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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Ed Light wrote:
AMD Tech Support may be able to help you. They've helped me.

Ok, thanks. I might try them - however I bought the card second-hand...

Are you running the latest driver? Maybe uninstalling the current one,
rebooting, and putting in the newest might help. It could be a thing
that was fixed.

Yes current. I've also tried an older one, then back again.

Also, maybe be sure you've installed the driver from the monitor
company, and reinstall it each time after changing video drivers.

It's a Dell and, although I can't seem to find a driver from Dell Windows 7
(64-bit) always finds the driver and knows the model of monitor.

Also, maybe in the control center under My VGA Displays (or Panels),
Properties, Monitor Attributes, try toggling the Use EDID and see
what's available each way.

That only applies to colour profiles, at least in the latest CCC.

Thanks for your help - I'm at a loss.
--
/Shaun

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).