Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

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Hello ToastyX, I've used your CRU app to add EDID overrides to set the correct modes for my Dell P1130 21" CRT, which I'm trying to run in my new rig with a R9 280 (DVI-I to VGA adapter). My problem is with that bug you mentioned about AMD and Windows 8.1. The overrides don't take over after reboot and I need to use your restart64.exe not once, but several times checking and unchecking and applying the "Use Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) or driver defaults", until Catalyst decides to let me run my games, but not the windows desktop itself, with all the correct modes (some don't work on the desktop, only in fullscreen D3D and OGL apps, go figure). Not only is this time consuming, as it also apparently led to my display becoming garbled at the return to the desktop after a gaming session, with a subsequent crash of the display driver (atikmdag.sys), after which I've used your reset-all.exe to undo the changes to the registry and stopped trying for the moment to get this triple damned driver to work right. The monitor does still run fine with my Windows 7 Laptop with integrated Intel graphics, as it did with my previous rigs with Nvidia's GPUs. Back in the days of Vista I used to install a .inf file to get the correct modes with Nvidia cards, but with the newest Intel driver all I have to do is create custom modes straight in the driver UI (that has this check which says in essence "you know what your doing with your monitor, right?").

It's gotten to the point where I'm afraid that the AMD driver will brake my precious monitor.

I'm running Windows 8.1 and Catalyst 14.9 and have contacted AMD about these issues, but to no avail.

Is there anything else I might try that doesn't involve scrapping my newly bought Win 8.1 licence or using outdated drivers?

Thank you in advance!