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Guys, Since upgrading to a SLI duel 6800 GT setup I have had problems trying to run games or even my desktop at a resolution below my max resolution for my display(1280x1024). Display is a AG Neovo S-19 tried using a single card but still same problem I figures its an issue with the Nvidia drivers but can't work out which setting it is to sort it any help would be appreciated.

Your monitor is an LCD. As such, it actually has a fixed number of pixels on it, in your case 1280 x 1024. because it has that many actual pixels, it simply can't display a mode like 1024x768 correctly, because it'll have to use some odd scaling thing whereby some pixels are displayed with one physical pixel, and others use 2. This makes it look all blurred and unpleasant. In theory, you could use a res that was exactly half as much in both directions and all the pixels would then be square (2x2), so it would look crisp but blocky, and I don't think you'll want to run anything at 640x512 will you?

Standard CRT monitors work differently, so do not have this limitation (but of course size, weight, power consumption, etc are all worse on the them)

a More important question, is why the hell would someone with 2x6800GT cards want a <i>lower</i> res than 1280x1024? I have but one 6800GT, and I run most games in 1600x1200 as it is.

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I don't have any personal experience with SLI rigs but AFAIK it works the same as a single card generally...

What problem do you get then? Does it Display ok-ish, but just isn't as crisp as you hoped (which would be the problem I suggested earlier) or is it just filling 80% of the screen and leaving a big black border around the edge (or down one edge and the bottom or something). If it's the latter then perhaps fiddling with the monitor's settings might help.

If you could give more information then someone might chime in who has had experience of it.

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It's under 'Digital Flat Panel Settings' I think.

Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Geforce XYZ -> "Digital Flat Panel Settings" in the pop-out box to the left.
<A HREF="http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_6.html" target="_new">Here</A> is a site with some info, if you scroll down a little.

In order for the option to be there though, I think you need to be using the DVI connection. I'm using a (cheap!) 17" LCD here at work that uses the old VGA adapter instead, and I don't get that option.

But if you read that article you'll see it seems like the option you want is there.

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