I've tried this before, but it did not work. Now I was successful – Powerstrip 3.73 and SFFT Alpha 44 work together.

Greetings and thanks,
Raff

QuoteOriginally posted by Raff3DC

I've tried this before, but it did not work. Now I was successful – Powerstrip 3.73 and SFFT Alpha 44 work together.

Greetings and thanks,
Raff

details please

It's no big thing. Just install Powerstrip and open "Display profiles". On the right side you have to klick ond "Advanced timing options", then on "Custom resolutions". I chose 1680x1050, made a reboot and could set the resolution.

Greetings,
Raff

I did encounter the same problem, fortunately the solution was fairly simple.

I am running Win98 on a Voodoo 5500 PCI equipped PC connected to a Samsung 205B monitor which has a native resolution of 1680x1050 (20").

All it took was to edit the 3dfxvs.inf file included in the installation set by adding the following lines:

--->8---cut--- (under ; Modes)

HKR,"MODES\32\1680,1050"

--->8---cut---

and

--->8---cut--- (somewhere between the other similar lines)

HKR,"TIMINGS\1680,1050\60Hz",,,"GTF"
HKR,"TIMINGS\1680,1050\60Hz",Supported,,"BPP+8+16+32,DDRAW"

--->8---cut---

And then reinstalling the driver.

This worked with
- the last official 3dfx driver
- AmigaMerlin 2.9
- Raziel's Evolution Driver 1.01.16
(all for Win98 of course; no idea if this works with Win2000/XP)

It works and is a serious advantage over running the screen at any other interpolated resolution (the Samsung 205B does not offer a 1:1 mode).

There is however a small disadvantage: video overlays no longer work in the 1680x1050 resolution (every other res is unaffected), all video playback is crude and blocky. I tried three different video players (Classic Media Player, BSPlayer, Windows Media Player), three different V5500 drivers (see above), reinstalled DirectX 9, tried numerous 3dfxvs.inf changes (whatever I thought may help), applied a weird Netmeeting trick (see http://www.sebbi.de/archives/2005/01/07/overlay-directdraw-not-working-easy-fix/) and even more. To no avail.

Dxdiag.exe does not report any problems and all DirectDraw, as well as Direct3D tests run without a glitch.

Does anyone know any possible solution? (Apart from a complete Windows reinstall which probably wouldn't help anyway. It has to do with the resolution and the drivers.)

uhh,I dont really have a solution for the overlay,but could you get a shot of your screen when running in the 1680x1050 res? I would like to see if you got this resolution running without distortion (see second shot): http://forum.3dfx.cz/viewtopic.php?t=1666&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20#26560

There is no distortion or interpolation, everything is very clear and crisp (as expected).