1600x1200 on a 6100?

[ddrueding]

How do I get 1600x1200 on an integrated 6100 video card? Even 1280x1024 would be nice...

Latest drivers; and a few older ones do nothing. Omega has stopped nVidia development. BIOS states that I've allocated 128MB of RAM to video (the maximum), You'd think that would be enough?

 

[Mercutio]

I'm using 1280x1024 on one right now.
There's no reason they shouldn't support 16x12, either. A 2D display at that resolution should only need 61.4MB of video memory.

 

[P5-133XL]

Install a monitor driver. I'm currently running 1920x1200 on a 6100, so there is no reason you can't run 1600x1200.

 

[Pradeep]

Go into Display Properties->Advanced->Monitor and uncheck the "Hide settings that this monitor can't display". Should give you the option for 1600*1200 now. Alternatively install the monitor driver as Mark suggested.

 

[CityK]

A 2D display at that resolution should only need 61.4MB of video memory.

Huh?

1600 x 1200 x 24 bits = ~5.5MB
Given double buffering, then its ~11MB

 

[Pradeep]

I can run 1600*1200 @ 16 bit color on an 8MB ATI Rage PCI card. Not enough for 32 (24) bit color tho.

 

[Mercutio]

I think I added an extra 0 when I calculated it.

 

[ddrueding]

Thanks all. I actually had installed the inf for the monitor off the CD that shipped with it, and it displayed the monitor name correctly, but it took a new inf from Viewsonic's website to correct the problem. Thanks again.