Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

[mikey32230]

(08-02-2014 07:19 PM)ToastyX Wrote:  

(08-01-2014 01:59 AM)mikey32230 Wrote:  Hi i have 1 PC and 2 monitors (1 Dell E173fp) and (1 Sony Wega TV/Monitor).

I have a VGA switch that was supposed to support DDC but whenever i hook up the monitors to it, windows defaults the monitors to generic non-pnp monitors. Thus the resolutions are bad. I'm looking for a way to get around this by forcing EDID info for each monitor everytime i manually use the VGA switch.

Is this something your program can help with. i'm trying to mess around with it now. Have any ideas?

CRU can override the EDID for non-PnP monitors. Just add the resolutions you want, and click OK to save them. They should be available after rebooting.

(08-01-2014 01:59 AM)mikey32230 Wrote:  So this program is able to export .ini files and .dat files but moninfo.exe says they are invalid edid files.. probably because they arnt trying to be edid files. I was going to try to replace the generic non-pnp driver with a .ini files created by this program but i guess thats no what its for. I'm stumped on what to do.

You shouldn't need to export anything. You can export an INF file and install it using the Device Manager if you want to change the monitor name, but that's not necessary for the EDID override to work. If you want to export the EDID for moninfo.exe to read, export it as a .bin file.

Thank you for the reply. I'm don't know to much about all this but, i'm sort of stuck. I have a 1 dell Monitor, 1 sony tv, and 1 vga switch. When i plug both monitors into the switch my pc will only recognize 1 monitor (because its a switch). However, it changes it to a generic non-pnp monitor (maybe because this switch is faulty, it says it supposed to support ddc, but it seems to not pass along any edid info or anything).

Anyways, since this switch only allows the computer to see 1 monitor at a time, both are categorized as the same generic non-pnp monitor. When i switch between monitors, the computer continues to think that the same generic non-pnp monitor is there. Thus no resolution changes occur between switching.

I'm stuck because even if i did force a resolution for my dell monitor to stop it from being a generic non-pnp monitor, then when i switch to the sony tv, the resolution will stay at whatever the dell monitor is set to because the computer thinks its that same monitor.

Any suggestions? i'll try to get a replacement switch, to see if this one is just faulty, but i think this is just how it is. This is what im using: http://tinyurl.com/k98d4vl

This is the only vga switch, reasonably priced. Any help at all i would appreciate if you know of anything.

Thanks!