Monitor flickers in native resolution.

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Published on 2011-02-12T11:58:00Z Indexed on 2011/02/12 15:27 UTC
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With my new Samsung Syncmaster BX2450 I have the following problem:

In Windows XP (SP2), all resolutions above 1440x900 have either strange pixel errors or an extreme flickering. It seems, that the effect worsens for higher resolutions. In special, I would like to run the monitor with its native resolution (1920x1080), however I can't watch longer than 5 seconds on the monitor because of the flickering...

My Graphics Card is a Geforce FX 5200 with the most up-to-date driver (according to Nvidia.com: Forceware 175.19) and I'm having the monitor connected to its DVI-output.

The strange thing is, under Ubuntu 10.04, all resolutions work just perfect, so the display must be alright.

edit: seems to be a driver problem... if I use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers in Ubuntu, I have the same problem as in Windows.

I would like to reformulate my question:

Is there a modified/alternative Geforce FX 5200 driver (as there is in Ubuntu) for Windows that allows me to use 1920x1020 without problems ? I already tried the omega drivers: unfortunately, it still looks poor on the native resolution.

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