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KnifeMissile · 11-16-2004, 03:57 PM

My cheap ass PCIex video card (ATI X300SE) claims to support 1600x1200 at 75Hz but this is a lie. The screen objects waver horizontally too much to be tolerable. As you can imagine, this pissed me off and I was expecting to go back to the computer store with my receipt, hoping to pay my restocking fee and get a refund. However, I try very hard to salvage the situation and figure out what's going on. Now, it still wavers at 70Hz but stops at 60Hz. Unfortunately, this is way too low to tolerate and I know this 'cause I have seriously tried to tolerate it in the past. So, I could go down to a lower resolution but the next one down is 1280x1024 which is intolerably too low. So, what can I do?
It turns out that my video card can support 1792x1344 at 75Hz. This is pretty close to my desired resolution and pretty much solves my problem. The resolution is a little high in that everything's a little on the small side but I do have more real estate, which is always good. So, this is my new resolution and, so far, it's okay. Even my media applications haven't complained, yet...

Has anyone else encountered bizarre failings and solutions to their hardware and tolerated it?

11-16-2004, 03:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
KnifeMissile Location: Waterloo, Ontario	Weird cheap video card quirk... My cheap ass PCIex video card (ATI X300SE) claims to support 1600x1200 at 75Hz but this is a lie. The screen objects waver horizontally too much to be tolerable. As you can imagine, this pissed me off and I was expecting to go back to the computer store with my receipt, hoping to pay my restocking fee and get a refund. However, I try very hard to salvage the situation and figure out what's going on. Now, it still wavers at 70Hz but stops at 60Hz. Unfortunately, this is way too low to tolerate and I know this 'cause I have seriously tried to tolerate it in the past. So, I could go down to a lower resolution but the next one down is 1280x1024 which is intolerably too low. So, what can I do? It turns out that my video card can support 1792x1344 at 75Hz. This is pretty close to my desired resolution and pretty much solves my problem. The resolution is a little high in that everything's a little on the small side but I do have more real estate, which is always good. So, this is my new resolution and, so far, it's okay. Even my media applications haven't complained, yet... Has anyone else encountered bizarre failings and solutions to their hardware and tolerated it?