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I'm be surprised if Matrox didn't have one high-end setup running Vista64 with 8GB, Tril-SLI, etc.

I mean - to use these resolutions, you really need a monster rig anyway to push all those pixels. That's pretty much their target market.

Anyway, are there any performance advantages from the 180.43's, aside from Physx?

Please look at http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/9684#comment-178759 and see if you can replicate. If so this thread should be renamed as its very misleading!

Regarding the 180 series, lots of SLI fixes, games optimisations and part of the new generation of NV drivers, so yeah, lots of advantages!

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Anyway, are there any performance advantages from the 180.43's, aside from Physx?

Lots if SLI improvements in many games, esp FC2

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Bit sad Matrox support didnt advise this or post it here TBH.

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I've got 5040x1050 working on my desktop but:

1. GXM zaps my custom res (the 5040x1050 one) upon every bootup. Deleting GXM fixes it, but then I lose my bezel mgmt. :(

2. 5040x1050 is still not selectable as a res in games :(

3. 5040x1050 still does not appear in the Modes List of GXM. :(

If *anyone* has been able to solve these glitches, then please post up what you did!

Well, just got my new system setup, and things appear to be going good.

I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, Nvidia GTX 280 with 180.48 Drivers.

Installed PowerDesk, and of course 5040x1050 is not available, but I can easily add it as a custom res as stated in other threads.
Updated my monitor driver to be 'Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition'.
To stop PowerDesk from deleting my custom res after every bootup, I modified
1) C:Program Files (x86)Matrox Graphics IncPowerDesk SEDeviceInfo.ini (Search for CUST_MODE, replace with CUST_MODE_2)
2) C:Program Files (x86)Matrox Graphics IncPowerDesk SEGXM.inf
Add semi-colons in front of the following lines, as so:
;[TH2GODE.AddReg]
;HKR,,MaxResolution,,"5040,1200"
;HKR,"MODES4320,900",Mode1,,"30.0-120.0,30.0-120.0,-,+"
;HKR,"MODES5040,1050",Mode1,,"30.0-120.0,30.0-120.0,-,+"
;HKR,"MODES4800,1200",Mode1,,"30.0-120.0,30.0-120.0,+,-"
;HKR,,DPMS,0x00010001,1

Now as a disclaimer, not sure which edit is actually doing the work, and I'm not going to screw with it too much more since everything seems to be working good and I can select 5040x1050 in games just fine (at least the few that I tested). Just thought I'd let you guys know it is possible.

Check the first post..an updated GXM/PowerDesk has successfully worked for some people, give it a try

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I have finally dived into the Vista pool, with new hardware as of today. i7/920, 6G ram, EVGA x58 board, GTX280/dTH2G.

Brand new install of Vista Ultimate x64. Downloaded the 180.48 drivers from NVIDIA and the 2.04.00.011 GXM from Matrox.

The Matrox install created six new modes in the custom resolutions section of the NVIDIA control panel, but three appeared to be duplicates of the original three. The 5040x1050 was at 16bpp tho, and had weird settings - I have three Samsung 2253LW monitors, and they were reporting a rate of 51Hz, although the res in the CPL was indicating 57Hz. It would switch to that mode, and the monitors would display it, but after a few seconds they would each randomly lose the picture and display the Samsung "optimal at 60Hz" box, with it moving around the screen - as if it were redrawing it over and over. If I hit the source button on the monitor it would bring the pic back for a few seconds (switching to analog then back to digital) then back to the dialog box.

I took the info from the other thread on setting up custom resolutions, deleted all the resolutions in the CPL and started with that info. The CVT reduced blank idea with the pixel clock was crucial, thanks to whomever posted that info.

Setting up with manual parameters my monitors are now reporting 59.4kHz 56Hz and appear to be stable. This is a great great GREAT site, and thanks for all the info posted here. :)

Setting up with manual parameters my monitors are now reporting 59.4kHz 56Hz and appear to be stable. This is a great great GREAT site, and thanks for all the info posted here. :)

I assume you also still have the OSD message but it goes away now right?

I'm hoping to tweak those settings more to get 59.9 or 60.0 kHz and get rid of that OSD message :-)

Tim

[quote]Setting up with manual parameters my monitors are now reporting 59.4kHz 56Hz and appear to be stable. This is a great great GREAT site, and thanks for all the info posted here. :)

I assume you also still have the OSD message but it goes away now right?

I'm hoping to tweak those settings more to get 59.9 or 60.0 kHz and get rid of that OSD message :-)

Tim

Correct, I get the OSD message. It's not a big deal to me but it's still there.

Correct, I get the OSD message. It's not a big deal to me but it's still there.

Nigel solved my issue with this, here are the steps to resolve:

***WARNING: PERFORM THE BELOW AT YOUR OWN RISK.***
(We have no idea what might happen if you enter wrong values etc so be carefull!).

Samsung 2253BW 5040x1040 no OSD warning message settings:

Note: This was performed using 180.48 Nvidia drivers and 2.4.0.11 Matrox GXM (PowerDesk-SE). Video cards are 3 x Nvidia 8800GTX's running in Tri-SLI on Vista64.

1. Right Click on Desktop and select 'NVidia Control Panel'.
2. Under the Display drop down mention on the Left, select 'Manage Custom Resolutions'.
3. Select 'Create', put in 5040 (on the Horizontal value) and 1050 (Vertical).
4. Change GDI Refresh to 60 (this is the big change thanks to Nigel, used to be 57 as per other threads), bits per pixel 32.
5. Then click on 'Advanced'.
6. In the Back-end Parameters, Timing Standard drop-down box and change it to 'CVT Reduced Blank'.
7. Then select 'Manual' from the Timing Standard drop-down box.
Setup the Manual timing as per below:

Horizontal Front Porch: 64
Vertical Front Porch: 3
Active Horizontal Pixels: 5040
Active Vertical Lines: 1050
Horizontal Total: 5376
Vertical Total: 1068
Horizontal Sync width: 64
Vertical Sync width: 4
Horizontal Sync polarity: +
Vertical Sync polarity: -
Horizontal Scan Rate will likely show 60.88
Pixel Clock will likely show 319.7500

8. Click on 'Test' and you should get perfect 5040x1050 video with no OSD message.
9. Click on OK to save those settings.
10. You may need to go back into Nvidia Control Panel and change to this newly created custom resolution (5040x1050 60hz).

Your Samsung 2253BW should show the following on the Menu OSD:

Digital
62.7kHz 59Hz NN
1680x1050

Enjoy! No more "Not Optimal" message.

Cheers
Tim



(Edited to remove mistaken paste from other thread at the bottom)