Below are the only routes you can take, for now at least.ġ) You can use a program such as Powerstrip to flash the EDID to one you programmed to support the resolutions or features currently lacking. I believe ATI drivers have the option to disable EDID (havent confirmed it working yet) but NVIDIA drivers do not. There are no 'hacks' availableto disable EDID in Vista like there are in XP.
Well, oh dear, you won't ever get 2048 x 1536 to work now, you'll be hard limited to 1600 x 1200 - thanks Vista. Why can this be bad? Well, let's say the driver for your CRT monitor supported 2048 x 1536 in XP (i miss you!), but in EDID it was only programmed to support 1600 x 1200. No matter what monitor driver you install, it will be completely ignored, in it's place the manufacturer written EDID will be used in all circumstances. Vista, being the piece of junk it is, strictly forces EDID and there seems to be no way to disable this so that you can use a. EDID is a standard for monitors whereby the manufacturer can program all the refresh rates and resolutions (plus many other features) on a chip which resides on the monitor itself, and can be read by the OS instead of a.
