Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

[LTC]

(11-28-2014 04:14 AM)ToastyX Wrote:  

(11-28-2014 03:21 AM)LTC Wrote:  Thanks for your answer ToastyX, but you see, my monitor already has correct EDID information as with Windows XP and prior machines it's modes are detected correctly on boot without any fuss!

It's only from Vista onwards that I started to need to install the monitor .inf file (which I still have around, but Windows 8.1 won't accept because it "isn't signed"), and I even stopped doing that in favor of just going in to the driver UI, unchecking the "use EDID" box and adding just the modes I like to use.

If the monitor already has the correct EDID information, then what do you need to change? The resolutions in the EDID should have already been listed in CRU before you made any changes. The "Use EDID" option needs to be enabled for the changes in CRU to work properly.

It's a VGA monitor. Not DVI-D, not HDMI, old school VGA. And ever since Vista it's no longer plug-and-play, I've to muck around to get its proper modes, not just whatever generic low-res low-RR CRT modes Windows has. Back when I first got Vista, that was accomplished by installing the monitors drivers, which I didn't really need to before. It's gotten more complex over the years. I had the same problem with a Viewsonic G220fb, which I no longer own, it was plug and play on XP, stopped being so on Vista. I've never needed to do the "remove the twelfth pin-mod", and I have multiple high-quality cables as well as a few dvi-to-vga adapters, from past cards and also store bought. Way back then I remember reading from other people with the same issues on Vista, so I just got on with life. This monitor runs just fine with my laptop Intel graphics on Windows 7, it also ran fine with all cards I had(all NVIDIA) since I bought it.
Thank you for trying to help!