Is There Way to Change Displays Tab Setting Using Registry?

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There is a section in the registry named ati2mtag that seems to
hold all of the settings from the Catalyst panel. Can someone
guide me to which settings hold the "max resolution" and "max
refresh" Display settings for a selected monitor (each monitor
has its own registry section).

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Will
Internet: westes at earthbroadcast.com


"Will" <DELETE_westes@earthbroadcast.com> wrote in message
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> ATI Catalyst 5.5 has a "Displays" tab that lets you customize
> characteristics of your monitor. On a Windows 2003 system,
> this part of Catalyst is broken. The Displays tab will
always
> act as if no monitor is attached. I want to know where is
the
> place in the registry that I can set the maximum display
> resolution for monitor 1 to 2048x1536?
>
> On my "Displays" tab, none of the monitors show as connected.
> As a result you cannot customize their properties. On my
> system the Control Panel thinks the maximum resolution of my
> monitor is 1600x1200. If I set desktop resolution to 2048x1536
> (for example), ATI is mapping that to the 1600x1200 constraint
> that it thinks exists on the monitor. I have to scroll around
> the larger virtual desktop by moving it inside of the smaller
> 1600x1200 window. This effectively cripples a very power
> monitor.
>
> ATI has a great feature in Catalyst when you press the
> Troubleshooting button on the Displays tab that lets you force
> recognition of the TV. Why didn't it occur to ATI to on the
> same dialog include an option to "Force recognition of display
1"
> and "Force recognition of Display 2"?! This would
immediately
> solve my problem without having to resort to potentially
> dangerous registry tweaks.
>
> I find no way to force recognition of the monitor in Control
> Panel. I find no way to change the Display settings. There
> must be some way to do it using the registry directly.
>
> --
> Will
> Internet: westes at earthbroadcast.com