Click the down arrow next to Application and select System Enhanced from the drop-down. Tap on Apply and OK to save changes. Step 1: Right-click on the desktop and choose Display settings. Step 2: Under Display tab, locate Scale and layout section. You can change the size of text, apps, and other items.
Those games require high configuration computer, keyboard, and mouse. Update monitor driver with created inf. Allow and accept any driver warning messages. William Great tutorial I tried it and it allowed me to add another resolution to my flat panel monitor.
LCDs usually should be run at 60 Hz anyways Wanted to thank you for this article. I have another scenerio where this is a solution. We had an LCD monitor and projector connected through a Y connector. When we switched to Win 7 the system would only put a "ghosted" image on the projector. Using this modified cable allowed us to set the compatible resolution for the widescreen projectors and the LCD worked at that resolution OK.
Bill Glad it worked for you. On a side note, are you a developer for BeCubed? I remember using some BeCubed common dialog control back in the good old VB6 days, though I ended up just subclassing the standard Win32 dialog in the end it can be seen in NPS 2. BeCubed not too active now, there mostly for support of those old tools. Alastair Walker. Just wanted to say a BIG thanks I was getting desperate until I read this article.
Thanks again from someone who can now enjoy a decent sized screen! So, there isn't any other solution? Sorry for my English. Mafian Did you try forcing the refresh rate in Catalyst Control Center?
Also, uncheck the "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display" checkbox. That might be affecting it, because every single monitor with a VGA connection is required to support 60 Hz refresh rates. Yes, I tried this firstly I tried Advanced Tweaks, RefreshForce utils registry modification William Will your the man, thanks for that info.
Your tutorial hit the spot. Thanks man, you save me a lot of headaches. It's a hardware-level modification. It doesn't hurt to try William's method since it's not permanent. If it doesn't work, you can always revert it and try my method.
Hi, I removed the pin and put in enable VGA mode on windows 7 64 bit. All modes are showing not hidden. I still keep getting out of range message.
I have an ATI video card. HP laptop. Gwhiz Did your monitor support x 75 Hz before the pin mod? Most monitors can only handle 60 Hz at their highest resolution If that's the case, you're probably getting the "Out Of Range" message because your video driver is defaulting to the maximum refresh rate of the video card which could be 75 Hz, 85 Hz, or more.
Force your refresh rate to 60 Hz and see if it works. If your monitor officially supports x but you modified the cable and now see x, then it obviously has a very low chance of working. There's a reason they set its EDID that way at the factory -- the monitor only has X physical pixels and you're trying to feed it more pixels than it physically has. My modification isn't intended for increasing maximum resolution; it's intended for allowing officially-supported modes to be enabled if Windows is being uncooperative.
I made my freedom cable, it works perfectly. I think i screwed up my EDID in my monitor, help!! The "out of range" message happens when the pixel clock frequency can't properly be handled by the monitor; increasing either resolution or refresh rate will increase the pixel clock. Horizontal and vertical refresh rate make a difference too. Which video card do you have? NVIDIA cards have extensive options for custom resolutions, where you can specify all of the details and get it to work again.
The workaround with the cable and installing the newest drivers from AMD Again: Thanks!! Thanks for this post! I have three monitors between two computers.
The middle screen is the extended desktop for computer 1 AND the main desktop for computer 2. By pulling out pin 12 in the monitor's VGA cable, I successfully use a KVM switcher to change the middle monitor between the two with no problems. Computer 1 is Windows XP and computer 2 is Windows 7. It works like a charm! Thanks so much for this tip! Use either the system font for menus and toolbars or, if you are using custom fonts, count in the scale factor.
Images in toolbars and in menu if you are using them should be scaled as well. The problem with toolbar and menu images is similar to the one with window caption icons read below. What size to use and how to avoid quality loss due to scaling? My solution was to design toolbar and menu graphics in three sizes and pick the closest one based on current resolution:. Vista Explorer is keen on high-resolution icons and can rescales them quite nicely.
Your application should have its main icon available in x format. The small versions of your icon used in start menu or window captions are important too. For optimal look and feel under 96, , and DPI consider creating your main icon in these sizes: 16, 20, 22, 24, 26, 32, 48, and Why so many? Otherwise, they will be stretched and quality will suffer.
There are several ways, but none of them is optimal:. If you choose the last solution as did I , you may find this function useful. Given an icon, it creates another icon suitable for use in window caption. The original icon is destroyed or returned if it already has the correct size or if the original icon did not have bit color depth. You can then set caption icons using this code:. The following screenshot shows an application running in 96, and DPI. Note the scaled toolbar and menu graphics, caption icons and fonts.
Application running in 96, , and DPI. Modifying applications for high DPI modes is a time consuming job, but the result is worth the effort. If you plan to make the next version of your software compatible with high DPI modes, be ready to allocate enough resources to testing, graphic design and programming.
Great article on High DPI! Nice overview. Small point: non-square screen pixels date back to pre-VGA video adapters and could come back to haunt us any day. This is why there are separate x and y resolutions and it is good practice to treat them separately.
Tutorials , App developer , Research , Online services , Web design. Click on "Adjust font size DPI ". Select one of the recently used resolutions. Logical coordinates are important, because they make the behavior of the operating system and applications consistent regardless of the dpi setting. For example, System. Position normally returns the logical coordinates. If you move the cursor over an element in a dialog box, the same coordinates are returned regardless of the dpi setting.
If you draw a control at , , it is drawn to those logical coordinates, and will occupy the same relative position at any dpi setting. Microsoft Active Accessibility does not use logical coordinates. The following methods and functions either return physical coordinates or take them as parameters. By default, an Microsoft Active Accessibility client application running in a nondpi environment will not be able to obtain correct results from these calls. For example, because the cursor position is in logical coordinates, the client cannot simply pass these coordinates to AccessibleObjectFromPoint to obtain the element that is under the cursor.
In addition, an application that creates a window outside its client area, such as an accessibility application that highlights focused UI elements, will not create the window at the correct screen location, because the window will be placed at the logical coordinates, not the physical coordinates returned by IAccessible::accLocation.
If your application performs direct cross-process communication with non-dpi-aware applications, you may have convert between logical and physical coordinates by using the PhysicalToLogicalPoint and LogicalToPhysicalPoint functions.
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