Sanduleak
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Posted - 2008.01.26 09:19:00 -
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Edited by: Sanduleak on 26/01/2008 09:22:34
OK, for the nVidia 8800 Series on XP, I just figured my own out.  Yes, custom resolutions are possible!
Note: My instructions will read as if I'm a little gruff, but that's because I don't write operational orders to be poetic. Here's the salt:
Note: You will, from this moment forward, run EVE windowed, not full-screen.
Note: Only a cherry runs it full-screen anyway.
Note: What you're doing is fooling Windows into thinking that your monitor supports whatever resolution you're about to create.
Note: EVE is dumb. It simply interrogates Windows to find out what resolutions to offer you for EVE's client window.
Note: This is why you're going to tell Windows you have a custom size, so that that custom size will be available to the EVE client.
Note: DON'T EVER SELECT THAT CUSTOM RESOLUTION FOR WINDOWS ITSELF TO USE. YOU MIGHT IRREPARABLY DAMAGE YOUR MONITOR / GRAPHICS ADAPTER.
Note: What you're doing is telling THE EVE CLIENT WINDOW to use that resolution after you start EVE.
So, here goes:
1: Install the latest nVidia drivers from the site.
2: Install the nTune driver from the site.
3: Install Coolbits ForceWare registry modifications from guru3d.com.
4: Reboot now just because I said so.
5: Open the 'nVidia Control Panel \ Display \ Manage Custom Resolutions.'
6: If you have more than one monitor, pick one.
7: Click the 'Create' button, then the 'Advanced' button.
8: Drop the 'Timing Standard' droplist down and select 'Manual.'
9: Remember the current setting for the 'Desired Refresh Rate.' Change the 'Desired Refresh Rate' to something like 56.
10: Then change the 'Horizontal Desktop Pixels' and 'Vertical Desktop Lines' to the resolution you want the Window-Mode EVE Client to run.
11: Before step 12, know that you can potentially damage your monitor (unlikely) or see a black screen (not very likely) when you do step 12.
12: Click Test, and hopefully you will see a confirmation box whose 'OK' button you can quickly click so as to return your monitor to a proper refresh rate.
13: Now go return the 'Desired Refresh Rate' to whatever it was before you changed it.
14: Now click 'OK.'
15: You will be returned to the nVidia Control Panel and you should see your new resolution in the 'Custom Resolutions' for that monitor.
16: Rinse and repeat for any other monitor.
Note: I have two monitors, a 24" and a 22". I made my custom resolutions such that the EVE clients running on any given monitor have EXACTLY the dimensions that fit the available space remaining after the other things I want visible (such as my Windows taskbar).
SO THIS WORKS or I wouldn't be running 1914x1072 on the 24" or 1674x1022 on the 22" monitor.
Note: If you have more than one monitor, then you have more than one logical display adapter in Windows - one for each monitor. When you start EVE, go to the 'Display and Graphics' tab and drop the 'Display Adapter' droplist. Notice you have more than one logical display adapter. You will select, for the EVE client window you've just started, the proper logical adapter corresponding to the monitor upon which you'll be running that particular EVE client window. Once you do that, voila, you'll see the custom resolution(s) you defined available for EVE to use on that monitor. They'll be different for each logical adapter if you have different monitor sizes like I do.
OK, so now, to all the smart arses who answered people meanly about this process: If you had any dalls, you'd try to help people. Only an insecure, rubber-spined fartknocker tells people 'you should know how to do it.' I've been in IT for 15 years now and I had to figure this out with my new box. I guarantee I know more about Windows than you do. So next time you go to post, make sure you're not wasting forum space.
To those with the 8800 issue, I hope this helps you. I'm running three copies of the client concurrently at weird-arse resolutions as I type this. Rock on!
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