Incorrect active signal resolution

Hi maudv-maudv,

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling your graphics card drivers? Open Device Manager, right-click the name of the device, and select Uninstall. Restart your PC, and Windows will attempt to reinstall the driver. It's also possible that you are running an outdated version of the graphics card drivers. Here's how you can update your graphics card drivers:

1. Select the Start button, type Device Manager, and select it from the list of results.

2. Expand one of the categories to find the name of your device, then right-click (or tap and hold) it, and select Update Driver. For graphics cards, expand the Display adapters category, right click your graphics card, and select Update Driver.

3. Select Search automatically for updated driver software.

4. If Windows doesn't find a new driver, you can try looking for one on the device manufacturer's website and follow their instructions.

Please respond to this thread to let me know how the issue progresses. Similarly, if you have more questions, please inform me by replying to this post.

Our problems are that the device (or it's 'decoder section' are incapable of accepting a signal at these frequencies and GENERALLY display a blank screen if 'driven at these resolutions/frequencies! (NEC NLT-32W TV for example!)

Uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, whilst a functional monitor is connected is GENERALLY not a solution, as the new/reinstalled driver will re-install to an 'active signal resolution' that is acceptable to the display that is connected and functional, at the time!

As I see it we simply MUST 'drive our (older/lower spec) devices at a resolution/frequency that they can accept!

There MUST be a way to adjust this 'Active Signal Resolution'! (=output!)

Driver is updated to the latest version.

I´ve had this issue with different driver versions.

No help.

This is a apparently new function of windows.  Previous builds of Windows 10 could change the output resolution of the video card, even if it was more difficult than it needs to be.

Currently, the "Desktop resolution" and the "Active signal resolution" are completely separate and the "Desktop resolution" is scaled to match the "Active signal resolution".  I need to change the "Active Signal Resolution" to match my display.  I would then be happy to change my "Desktop Resolution" to anything and keep a constant "Active Signal Resolution" (in my case, 1366x768).

I am trying to connect a 1366x768 display to my computer and I set the resolution to 1366x768.  That resolution is currently being scaled to "1080p" and sent to the monitor.  This is causing issues.  How do I force WINDOWS to output the correct resolution that my monitor was designed for?

The monitor is an NEC V321.  It will display the image, but the video quality suffers because it is being scaled twice.  Once from 1366x768 to 1920x1080 (by the computer) and again from 1920x1080 back to 1366x768 by the display.

This scaling also isn't cheap on power/CPU-GPU (built-in graphics).

Windows needs an "I'm not an idiot" checkbox for those of us who are smarter than software.

The general pointers online is to do this guide to fix it:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4910-change-screen-resolution-display-windows-10-a.html

However, it does not work since "The list of all modes" does not contain the screen resolution I would like to output. What to do?

(Godamit what I hate windows! This would never happen on a Mac).

Actually, tried it on a MAC and have the exact same issue.  MAC outputs what it wants and scales the resolution you want.

I think you mean that it would never happen with Linux.  Tried that too, and it works like a charm.

I hate Windows

I dislike MAC

I love Linux.

I resolved the issue w/ tools that Came from the Graphics Card provider, on my laptop it was some Intel Graphics tools.  Two monitors, same max res, different result, and different Active Signal Resolution in the dialogs.   They had a setting that was different in their tool to "Maintain Display Scaling" vs Maintain Aspect Ratio.  Setting both to the same (Display Scaling) fixed my issue and text became clear and not blurry.

Hope this helps you too,

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Johnny Coder

I have tried everything in this manual, and nothing works:

I have a ThinkPad with graphics card Intel (R) HD Graphics 520, windows version 17134. I am connecting a projector via VGA on the dock. Projector native resolution is 1280x800@60.

 * When I install the Intel HD Graphics control panel fresh from Store , i get error message: An incompatible legacy version of this application is installed on this system. Visit Intel(R) Graphics Control Panel page in the Windows Store to know the minimum requierements for launching the application

 * When I select mode in the advanced settings - the list contains most resolutions the VGA can handle. If I choose 1024x786@60 or below, the Desktop and Active signal resolutions match. But with everything above 1024x786, the Active Signal Resolution goes to 1920x1080@60.

The projector is able to handle 1920x1080, but the image is scaled twice (1280->1920->1280), and the result is terrible, as the texts are barely readable. Have you got any tips what to fix?

I have same issue.

Intel (R) HD Graphics 4400.

My old LG monitor accept 1600*900 resolution. When I tried to set it, grahpics card transform it to "active resolution" 1024*768. Monitor connects via VGA to the dock station.

Nothing helps...