[scottwin]

I tried on the weekend to get EA Sports Tiger Woods 2003 to display properly on my widescreen HDTV with no success. Does anyone have a fix for this game? If not how about a fix for another EA Sports game that needs to display at 800x600 (note the game doesn't allow 640x480) that I could explore. BTW this game looks fantastic from what I've seen so far.


I tried to run the game in 4x3 resolution on my 16x9 WS but it doesn't accept 640x480 and I couldn't get my Radeon 9000 to run at 800x600 (or higher 4x3 resolutions). [I thought I'd do this since it seemed to work pretty good for Papyrus's Nascar 2003, albeit I had the black panels on the side, but the great game physics more than made up for it. However with Tiger Woods, all I could get is a 720x480 windows resolution with the option in TW 2003 set for 800x600. This naturally results in about 20% cut from the bottom and 10% from the right side. Anything else I seemed to try made it worse.]


Has anyone got an 800x600 powerstrip setting to work using Karnis's timings in his great thread "Custom Resolution Guide for HDTV HTPC POWERSTRIP RADEON". If so how did you do it? I can't get it to work without getting a virtual desktop.


I'd be extremely happy to get this 800x600 working as it would fix a couple of resolution problems I have with some other games including the latest Need For Speed as well.


Thanks anyone,


Scott

 

[scottwin]




If this post belongs somewhere else please let me know ...


Or if you need more info, my system consists of the following:

Radeon 9000Pro

using DVI output

HDTV is Hitachi 57SWX20B

Powerstrip 3 (monitor configured to display max res of 1920x1200, if memory serves, or close to it)

Win98SE

 

[Ashley Saldanha]

Try the PowerStrip predefined timings for "800x600p (DVI/HDCP derived)" - those were taken directly off a 16:9 RPTV connected to a Radeon 8500 via DVI-D.

 

[scottwin]

Hi Ashley, thanks for responding. So are you able to get 800x600 on your set-up? Is it similar to mine?


I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong but that's what I did. Whenever I select this setting my TV accepts it and then switches to it, but the resolution automatically goes to 792x480 (or something crazy like that, I'm at work so I can't verify exact numbers) and I get the dreaded virtual desktop problem. For some reason I can't get the 800x600 to stick.


The reason I ask is I thought I read somewhere that the 800x600 wasn't possible but I wasn't sure if the post was in relation to someone elses particular set-up (ie. with a transcoder or using VGA inputs) or to Powerstrip, Radeon and 16:9 HDTV sets in general . So I just need to verify before I keep spinning my wheels and try to do something that can't be done.


Maybe I just need to clear all my settings and start from scratch. Has anyone had any success with clearing your settings and starting at it again?


Thanks,


Scott

 

[Karnis]

If the DVi port thinks this rez is beyond your sets capabilities, it will go virtual. Try selecting a high-resolution monitor driver.

 

[scottwin]

Thanks Karnis. As stated previously though my monitor is configured to display max res of 1920x1200. I used your tip on creating a customized one. Shouldn't that suffice to get the 800x600 to stick? What else could cause my problem?


I've disabled the "detect plug and play" in the device advanced settings page.


So when I copy and paste your settings:

800x600i=800,279,56,329,600,250,1,274,49410,280

My monitor accepts the settings,

I get virtual desktop,

when I click on the close button, the settings show active pixels of 784 H & 444 V.


Is it because I'm using Win98SE?


Thanks,


Scott

 

[scottwin]

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[Karnis]

DVI is known to have virtual desktop issues with resolutions that are not natively supported by the monitor. One solution would be to use the VGA port with the DVI adapter. The VGA port is more forgiving with exotic timings.

 

[Ashley Saldanha]

It has been a while since I messed with this, so I don't know if it works with the latest drivers as it once did:


1. PowerStrip menu > Display profiles > Configure

2. Double-click on the icon to the left of the resolution slider

3. Answer Ok when asked if you want to uncap the monitor

4. Reboot


This overcame a DVI-D problem I had at one time with an 8500, where the ATI driver was just too strict and too literal in its interpretation of the EDID it got from a DVI/HDCP RPTV...


It might still work with newer drivers...

 

[scottwin]

Just to follow up on this latest suggestion by Ashley.


It didn't work for me, so I still don't have a workable solution via DVI.