Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head Graphics Card

[p_brownstone]

Working under Windows XP Pro with “old” ASUS P4T Motherboard.

I have had this Graphics Card for quite a while but used it with only 1 21” CRT Display.

Last weekend I bought 2 Acer “Widescreen” LCD Monitors - the primary Monitor is 22” the Secondary 19” - and installed them with no problems. (No longer use the CRT Monitor of course).

Setup looks basically good, I can view different screens on each Monitor and drag application windows back and forth between them etc..

But:

The images on both Screens are noticeably stretched horizontally to fill the “Widescreen” , or perhaps they are being compressed vertically, same end result really – not a huge problem in Word or Excel etc. but it is distracting when viewing .jpeg or video files for example; proportions are clearly distorted.

I find it difficult to believe that this is an expected “trade off” for using a Wide Screen Monitor and so there must be some Tool in the System - Windows, Graphics Card or whatever - to restore the proper proportions to the Screens.

Can anyone advise me?

Patrick

[Tywais]

I suspect you have not set the resolution of your graphics adapter and the LCD monitors are automatically fitting the 4:3 to fit the wide screen. Should be able to right click on the desktop and select Properties and under Settings see what options you have for resolutions. You can look at this website that explains it a little more: http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/3dws.../resolution.cfm

Just looked on the Matrox website and it appears that model does not support wide screen resolutions.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/workstation...series/g450.cfm

[Simmo]

Looks like you can do widescreen resolutions for that card with a unsupported Matrox utility.

See here.

http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=19001

[Firefoxx]

Matrox... a name that used to be very well respected in the graphics community. Strange that it doesn't support widescreen resolutions. Another utility that might help is Powerstrip, which can usually set any resolution on any card.

[p_brownstone]

Many thanks for the assistance!

I managed to set up the 19” Monitor using the - Matrox Utility - at 1440 x 900 but for some reason that Utility would not let me set up the Primary - 22” - Monitor.

I was able to set that at 1680 x 1050 using Powerstrip.

Again, thanks to all, the help was much appreciated.

Patrick

[Mikester]

I read your post (below). I have the exact same problem you so kindly responded to. However, the link you posted, is no longer there. I guess 2 yrs is a long time in the Internet world.... Would you have another link to the unsupported matrox utility you suggested? Thanks so much in advance.

Looks like you can do widescreen resolutions for that card with a unsupported Matrox utility.

See here.

http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=19001

[Naam]

till a couple of years ago i used a (<deleted>' expensive) Matrox card to connect two additional monitors. now i am quite happy with an adapter "USB>VGA" (separate adapter for each monitor needed) which gives me the choice of ten different resolutions. a small disadvantage is the sluggishness. price ~ 60 EUR per adapter.

http://delock.de/pictures/productGroup/1/4381e705859c1.jpg

[Florin]

http://www.majorgeeks.com/PowerDesk_Resolu...nager_d390.html

Sigh...I loved Matrox

[andreasd]

Hello,

I also have the matrox millenium dualhead 450 since years.

I've also buyed a flat screen (samsung syncmaster 2253bw) and i've also want to set the resolution to the native resolution of 1680*1050 via the analog vga-port.

I've downloaded all the programms - annouced in this forum - and I've tried to make my own resolution.

It doesnt work....

After a day of trials, I give up and installed my old monitor on the first screen and i recognized that it works with the resolution 1680*1050.

As I've changed the monitors, it works fine.

(But the second device, stayed on a low resolution. Internally it will manage with one instead of two resolutions)

And I can see the differences. Big up.

[Veazer]

...Another utility that might help is Powerstrip, which can usually set any resolution on any card.

A very handy util, but this isn't totally true. Custom resolutions must be supported by the driver. I've tried using PS on some integrated chipset graphics cards and there was no option for custom resolutions. I had to go find a cheapo nvidia card to get the resolution i needed.

Thankfully you can test out PS first to make sure it is usable on your card.