Mysterious new resolution showing up?

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ericestrella

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Hey so I'm really confused at the moment. I just realized, out of nowhere, both in setting desktop resolution on my actual desktop or when I'm in a PC game, that they're giving me this new option out of the blue to go a step above my 1920x1080 monitor and set resolution to 2715x1527. Is this normal, I swear I've never seen this before. Is this with the latest Nvidia drivers or something (347.25)? By the way I have a GTX 680 and an i5-3570K @ 3.4 Ghz CPU, with 8 gigs of RAM.
 
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Yeah, that's a 1080p monitor, so without some sort of downsampling, it cannot natively display higher resolutions. Might be some kind of glitch. I've actually seen catalyst show higher refresh rates than the monitor is capable of, that were NOT in italic type which indicates an abnormal refresh rate, but then later didn't show it any more after a reboot.
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I've not heard of that, but my only "guess" would be that it's some sort of downsampling feature, or that you didn't have the correct drivers installed before. A monitor normally should only be capable of displaying the max resolution it was designed to display. I don't see how any other hardware option could be available. I've been wrong before, perhaps it's something I've not heard of, but, I've not heard of it.

What is the model number of your monitor?
 
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ericestrella

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Btw it still says 1920x1080 is the recommended resolution. And my monitor is an ASUS VS247, and I double checked but I have the correct drivers and everything
 
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As I was saying, it might be something like this although I don't know how it would do it without you having intentionally configured it that way:

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/14001-how-to-run-higher-than-the-maximum-resolutions-on-your-display/
 
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ericestrella

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Well it's not like it automatically switched to that odd resolution, the option to use it just sorta...came up out of nowhere
 
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Yeah, that's a 1080p monitor, so without some sort of downsampling, it cannot natively display higher resolutions. Might be some kind of glitch. I've actually seen catalyst show higher refresh rates than the monitor is capable of, that were NOT in italic type which indicates an abnormal refresh rate, but then later didn't show it any more after a reboot.
 
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