1680 x 1050 with an nVidia GeForce 6800

Hi,
I recently bought a new monitor, a samsung syncmaster 206BW, with a native resolution of 1680 x 1050. When I plugged it in, installed drivers etc. my video card didn't seem to support this resolution: the highest resolution I could pick was 1600 x 900.
According to this page, that is correct. According to that page I need at least a 512 GeForce Ultra. My video card is a normal 6800 with 256 MB. (the rest of my system is a 3,0 GHz single core Pentium IV, 1024 MB RAM, 80GB 7200 RPM harddisk, PCI Express, XP home)
But then I found this page.
This page led me to belive that my card is not the problem, because they made a driver that makes cards as low as the GeForce 2 MX support this resolution (my card is in that list as well). However, the driver is created for windows 98/ME and I run XP. I tried the driver for 98/Me, but it doesn't work.
I have the latest official nVidia driver installed. Does anyone know a solution?

Thanks in advance.

Not sure if this will work, but try:
NVIDIA Control Panel (Advanced View) -> Display -> Appearance -> Manage custom timings -> Create...

The test failed.

Any other ideas?

EDIT: If you allow resolutions not supported by the display, you see my video card actually supports resolutions up to 2048 x 1536, so I really don't know what's the problem. hlep please

my dad has the same video card on his and it works fine although it is a little jumpy. have u considered a enw video card?


ati radeon x1650 512 MB gddr2 for roughly $115. i bought one and its great.framerates from 30-40 all the way to 50-80. press http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131041

i would suggest a nvidia 7950gt

The New NVIDIA control panel seems a bit buggy. Try switching to the Classic one and adding the custom resolution there (it's in the "Screen Resolutions & Refresh Rates" tab).

'The custom resolution cannot be added'

guess it's a new card then. Thanks for the help anyway

Uninstall and reinstall the latest NV drivers. And then look for a monitor driver for your screen. 6800 absolutely does support that resolution. I have a friend running one at 1680x1050 on a Dell 2005FPW.

I was running my old 5800 @1680 x 1050 on my new 22'' Acer widescreen monitor with out a problem. your card is newer than the 5800 so it should be able to hit that resolution.

try installing the latest NVIDIA GeForce that might help.

Try the Omega Drivers. http://www.omegadrivers.net/ Althugh I've got an ATI, 1680x1050 works flawlessly for me.

I'm running 1680x1050 with an nVidia 7600 GT / 256MB on my new system; I get 60fps with the eye candy turned on. I'm running the drivers release last week, I think they're version 158.18.

Backup your important data, reformat, install DX9, chipset drivers, and GPU drivers over. At the very least try more before you waste money.

Meh. Those are fine, but if you're going to spend $200 the Radeon x1950 Pro and the x1950xt are better GPUs. The GeForce 7XXX series is lacking in pixel shader power (important for future games) and is incomplete feature-wise (i.e., no FP16 blends when you have AA enabled, etc.) If you're not going to spring for a GeForce 8800 I'd go with an x1950. To the person that suggested the x1650: the OP's GeForce 6800 is just as powerful as the x1650, so that'd be a total waste.

None of this is relevant, though, because the 6800 should definitely support that resolution. There's something wrong with the way your drivers are set up. Are you sure you installed the right driver from Samsung for your monitor? Take a look in Device Manager and see what it says under the Monitors section. Does it show the right one, or does it just say, "Plug and Play Monitor"?

Dex beat me to it on this one. Definitely make sure that you have the drivers for your monitor installed - if done right, it'll say something other than Plug and Play Monitor.

Possible solution!

Download these 93.71's from Nvidia. Once downloaded nuke every reference to currently installed Nvidia drivers on your system. Once that's done, reboot into safe mode and install the 93.71's you downloaded.

Reboot, go to the control panel and select 1680x1050! I know it works with your card because my old 6600GT supports that resolution on one of my other PC's.

I tried the Omega drivers, but they didn't relly work. They were extremely slow (even in things like just scrolling a page) and didn't go above 1400 x 1050 or something. When I added a custom resolution, it said it would be applied the next time I restarted the computer or changed the screen mode, but when I did it was still 1400 x 1050.

Under device manager my monitor is listed as a SyncMaster 206BW(Digital), so I guess that means I have the drivers installed.

I had the 93.71 drivers installed from the start. I reinstalled them now.

Before I completely reformat my PC, I'll try the less drastic solution, but I have a few stupid questions.:
How does one nuke every reference to currently installed drivers out of one's system?
How does one start up in safe mode?

thanks

EDIT: figured it both out, but it doesn't work.

First off dont go nukin all your drivers, that just stupid. Second, safe mode is f8 at start up, just keep hitting it. I had the same problem you did, I had to update the driver of the monitor and let windows go out and find a new driver (only difference is mine is the 205BW not the 206BW), after this all was well.

Hope this helps.
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To nuke your nvidia driver, uninstall it via the control panel, then reboot it into safe mode and run dcp ( http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745 ) to get the remaining files and registry entry's from your previous driver cleaned out.
Specially when you are downgrading driver version, you can get problems with remaining driver slack.

i have a 7800 and its working fine for me after i DL'ed the drivers from their site

have u tried installing the updated drivers?? and nForce??

here is a step by step for ya =) (click the picture to go to the site wer this is at)

Ok, so I nuked all my drivers out of my system etc. but the 93.71 really doesn't seem to support it.
So I tried the Omega drivers again. Turns out I just downloaded a really old version last time. This time it all works flawless WITH the 1680 x 1050 resolution.
Screenshot for the sake of a screenshot:

Thanks a lot to all of you for all your time and effort!

EDIT: screenshot doesn't seem to work. wasn't that special anyway:P Thanks a lot.