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You want arcane, try doing the same thing in Windows when it can't detect your monitor properly and doesn't like your video card.
by jandrese 2y ago
You want arcane, try doing the same thing in Windows when it can't detect your monitor properly and doesn't like your video card.
- ssl-3 2y agoThanks. Now I'll have nightmares of the time I spent trying to help a friend get the 32" TV they won in a contest (back when an LCD of that size was still both unusual and expensive) to work at proper native resolution in Windows. Windows really wanted it to be 1080p, and the TV supported this input, but it was a blurry mess. It was advertised as 720p, and the TV supported this input as well, but that was also a blurry mess. It actually had a physical vertical resolution of something like 760 lines, which was not one of the modes that it offered up over DDC as an option for whatever was driving it to use. Fun times. (I did eventually get 1:1 pixel mapping, but IIRC I had to give him a different video card for this to happen.)
- derefr 2y agoWhat Linux solves through configuration, Windows solves by having everything you buy come with its own model-specific drivers that burn the needed configuration into the .INI + .DLL. Windows "not liking your video card" is presumably because you either aren't using the right driver, or because Windows doesn't like your driver — i.e. the monitor is old enough that there's no version of that driver for current Windows.