Question Ultrawide display is not performing as it should ?

[haynesr07]

I upgraded from a 1080Ti to a 4070Ti this past week. No complaints but my ultrawide display hasn't been working properly ever since. I know that I can make a custom res, but that isn't solving my problem exactly. It is 1080p but stretched. I will provide what I have done so far. The monitor ONLY has 2 hdmi inputs.

• Tried adding custom res as 2560x1080, but the problem is that it upscales it, making it blurry and causes my browser to flicker for some reason when watching YouTube videos.
• Tried several HDMI cables, none changed the active resolution.
• Tried HDMI to displayport and HDMI to DVI(with adapter) did not work.
• Tried going into advanced display properties and finding the 2560 resolution, did not work because it is not listed anywhere.
• Tried using an older nvidia driver in case, did not work.

I have 3 monitors
- Ultrawide at 2560x1080 60hz
-1080p at 240hz
-1080p at 85hz (for some reason it won't go under 85 which is also weird because it did before the new gpu was installed).

Anyone have any more ideas I can try? I really hate to ask for help but I feel like my ultrawide display is unusable and if I decided to get another one, I could run into this problem again, which would be a real issue.

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

What resolution is it defaulting to?

 

[haynesr07]

What resolution is it defaulting to?

It's defaulting to 1920x1080 and the ultrawide res doesn't even show at all. I've never had to make a custom res before for it so I presume something is wrong or I'm missing something.

 

[thestryker]

have you tried the ultrawide screen by itself?

You may also want to run DDU and then reinstall drivers in case something went awry with the card change. I haven't personally had an issue when keeping the same vendor's cards, but it's a possibility.

 

[haynesr07]

have you tried the ultrawide screen by itself?

You may also want to run DDU and then reinstall drivers in case something went awry with the card change. I haven't personally had an issue when keeping the same vendor's cards, but it's a possibility.

I completely reinstalled window with wipe of partition and added a new full partition. I don't think DDU would do much in this case, no? If I didn't reinstall windows I would agree but I can't see files hanging out after a fresh windows install

Edit: yeah i did try it by itself when I was swapping cables around. I didn't restart after swapping cables, but I presume that shouldn't have affected anything.

 

[thestryker]

I completely reinstalled window with wipe of partition and added a new full partition. I don't think DDU would do much in this case, no? If I didn't reinstall windows I would agree but I can't see files hanging out after a fresh windows install

Yeah if you did a fresh windows install it shouldn't be driver related at all.

Edit: yeah i did try it by itself when I was swapping cables around. I didn't restart after swapping cables, but I presume that shouldn't have affected anything.

As long as you booted the system without any other screens attached.

usually this sort of thing is bad cable or driver related, but you've seemingly covered those bases

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

I have 3 monitors
- Ultrawide at 2560x1080 60hz
-1080p at 240hz
-1080p at 85hz

i've seen it a few times with super/ultra-wide displays and multiple display setups.
the system just for some reason can't properly handle adding 32/21:9 into the mix of 16:9 screens.

i would try disconnecting all screens but the ultra-wide.
restart.
setup the display in Windows settings and make sure it's showing correct info in Nvidia Control Panel.
restart.
if still not properly configured;
reinstall latest Nvidia driver package without GeForce Experience.
restart.
hope it's setup properly.
if so, connect other displays and see if they all still stay configured correctly after another restart

 

[haynesr07]

i've seen it a few times with super/ultra-wide displays and multiple display setups.
the system just for some reason can't properly handle adding 32/21:9 into the mix of 16:9 screens.

i would try disconnecting all screens but the ultra-wide.
restart.
setup the display in Windows settings and make sure it's showing correct info in Nvidia Control Panel.
restart.
if still not properly configured;
reinstall latest Nvidia driver package without GeForce Experience.
restart.
hope it's setup properly.
if so, connect other displays and see if they all still stay configured correctly after another restart

I did try disconnecting all but the ultrawide but I didn't restart. Good point though, I can try restarting and see if that helps or does anything at all.

I did my entire driver install before the reinstall of windows and after without GFexperience, but didn't work unfortunately. I guess if I restart on the ultrawide only, if it doesn't work and show the correct signal, it could be deduced it's either my GPU won't push over 1920 for whatever reason or my ultrawide is broken lol. I guess to go further I could try connecting it to my TV to see if it will do 4k.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

you may want to also try removing any lingering data from the previous displays in Device Manager, etc and uninstall any specific display drivers you find.
Windows Update will sometimes install drivers for a display without any user prompt.

 

[haynesr07]

This is solved. I played around with a bunch of cables and did some updates after a month or so and it now works. I believe I had to just use a newer HDMI cable (most of mine were from so many years ago).