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Need a video card that supports custom/16:10 resolutions

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First post, by dada

Posted on 2012-02-25, 19:03

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Hi there. I'm currently setting up a retro PC with a widescreen monitor. I'm going to run Windows 98 on it, which doesn't seem to support widescreen resolutions so easily.

So I installed PowerStrip 3.90 to try and use a custom screen mode, but it doesn't seem to like my display adapter very much:

http://wedemandhtml.com/tmp/powerstrip_error_S3_Virge.png

So it seems that this S3 Virge doesn't support custom modes. (Or perhaps that's not what that particular highlighted item means, but at least I can't seem to make any changes whatsoever. The "advanced timings" button is grayed out. I also tried PowerStrip 2.78, and it also tells me custom modes aren't supported on my hardware.)

Does anybody have a potential solution for me? I guess I could buy a new video card (actually I wouldn't mind having a bit of extra VRAM, iirc right now it's only 4MB). Anybody have a suggestion? Thanks 😀

Reply 1 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-02-25, 23:02

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You could experiment and modify the driver's .inf file itself to add them in. At your own risk, though.

I've done it to add 720x480.

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Reply 2 of 3, by jaqie

Posted on 2012-02-25, 23:58

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I have a PCI radeon 7000 which has DVI and VGA and does widescreen fine, if that helps.

Reply 3 of 3, by dada

Posted on 2012-02-26, 14:00

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leileilol wrote:
You could experiment and modify the driver's .inf file itself to add them in. At your own risk, though.

I've done it to add 720x480.

I once tried that, actually. But it's difficult to get the right modelines. I screwed up and got something like this:

http://wedemandhtml.com/tmp/IMAG0873.jpg

(also this and this happened at some point, but that's irrelevant. Just posting because they're neat pics 😀 )

jaqie wrote:
I have a PCI radeon 7000 which has DVI and VGA and does widescreen fine, if that helps.

Under Windows 9x, too? Also, would that be this one or this one?

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