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perisoft
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| Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:54 pm Post subject: Radeon 5000 series custom timings? |
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I'm in the process of rebuilding my HTPC, and was thinking about sticking a Radeon 5850 in it. I threw it in for the hell of it, and it seems, however, that there's NO support for any kind of custom timings - or, even, for supporting anything (useful) other than 1080 at 24p/25p/30i/50i!
Powerstrip's a no-go. Anyone know whether it's possible to do custom timings? If not it's no huge yank; I can put the 4890 back in, but it'd be nice to upgrade if possible.
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benareeno
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it's a no go....
maybe it's time to try nvidia...
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perisoft
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| benareeno wrote: | it's a no go....
maybe it's time to try nvidia... |
I just happened to have the 5850 hanging around, so I figured I'd try it. No biggie. For my work we're pretty much 100% ATI now due to eyefinity; when nV comes up with a triple output solution I'll probably take another look.
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nombz
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I did a workaround for this using EDID override in Win7.
I needed to change porches etc to get the correct width and stable picture on my BG1209s.
I am using a ATI 5670. I wrote a small guide on what I did and how: http://www.bredbild.se/edid/
Its pretty far from as easy and nice as Powerstrip, but I was set for bitstreaming to my receiver so I needed the ATI.
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nombz
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| benareeno wrote: | it's a no go....
maybe it's time to try nvidia... |
I did try nvidia because of this. For windows 7 the custom timings very veerrryyy buggy. As soon as you "saved" a resolution/refreshrate you could not change the porches etc afterwards. It was like the interface only looked at the resolution/refreshrate and decided you didnt change anything so it didnt save (found a workaround for that aswell, but it was a PITA).
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perisoft
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| nombz wrote: | I did a workaround for this using EDID override in Win7.
I needed to change porches etc to get the correct width and stable picture on my BG1209s.
I am using a ATI 5670. I wrote a small guide on what I did and how: http://www.bredbild.se/edid/
Its pretty far from as easy and nice as Powerstrip, but I was set for bitstreaming to my receiver so I needed the ATI. |
Hmm... thanks! I'm not sure if it's worth it or not. I haven't really messed with my timings at all for ages, so it might be practical to do. I'll have to play with it.
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perisoft
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Argh.
I'm trying to get an HDFury3 to run an interlaced 1080 mode - i72 is what I'm really after, but for the moment I'm trying to get it to do anything. And fine, the resolutions are in the EDID... but f*cking ATI's drivers just kinda refuse to let me set them. If I go to the '1080i HDTV resolutions' in the menu, it shows them available... I pick one, and WHAM, it switches to 1080p. "f*ck you, customer!" says ATI, "I know best!"
God, it pisses me off when software pulls this sh*t. I said 1080i, you stupid, goddamned, c*ck-chugging motherf*cker, so why are you switching to 1080p?!$%^
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