Ge Force FX 5200 resolutions

hello people. Does anybody know how to get higher resolutions than 1024x768 from a Ge Force FX 5200 card? Driver is newest available. Machine is 7 year old HP Pavilion (P4 2.6GHz, 1Meg RAM).

 

hrlow2, did you try Dennis L's suggestion about the "scaling "?
http://www.windowsbbs.com/hardware/77886-help-display-settings.html
If you don't know where the nVidia Control Panel is, it should be listed in the options by right-click on a blank space on the desktop (old versions were listed in Start -> Programs or had an icon in the Notification tray, but now you can only right-click on the desktop).

If you can't find the nVidia Control Panel, it may not be installed. You can install it from the graphics adapter's drivers CD.

The Control Panel should be able to "scale" it. Sometimes though, you may need to reduce the Refresh Rate for higher resolutions.

Matt

 

hello mattman. Do not have nVidea Control Panel.Also do not have the CD for the card. Machine was bought used and card was already preinstalled. Would nTune be about the same?

 

nTune is manipulative of the hardware. No, it is not the "Control Panel ". To be honest, I don't like nTune and don't install it, it fools around with the "clocking" and since you could "smoke" your graphics adapter, it's something I avoid. (One good point is that it may have a temperature readout of the GPU.)

Do you know the manufacturer of the graphics adapter (nVidia only supply the chipset)? I get drivers from the manufacturer's website, so for example, on this computer, the G/A was made by MSI, so I look the model up there for drivers. I have a problem though, my model was made pre-Vista. I need to get the drivers directly from nVidia. Get them from nvidia if you cannot find them otherwise, the "drivers" include the Control Panel. If you don't install specific drivers, Windows has the basic drivers, but as you see, the nVidia Control Panel is not included.
www.nvidia.com/support

Before I install graphics drivers, I always check for motherboard chipset driver updates first and install those. If you don't and the new graphics drivers don't seem "right ", that's what I might expect is the problem. (The drivers work in a tier system, with the chipset drivers at the top.)

Matt

 

Thanks mattman. Will try that approach. Like yours, my machine is pre Vista so you are not alone in that boat.

 

Yes, let us know if it works. If it does, we can add a link in that other thread back to here.

Luck,
Matt