Windows 7: Standard VGA Graphics Adapter won't let me go to 1280x1024 resolution

I'm on Windows 7 Professional 64 bits
My motherboard has an onboard graphics card that works just fine. I installed an old PCI graphics card in order to use more monitors (TNT2 Riva by NVidia). The card is so old that it doesn't have a driver for Windows 7 64bits (it seems that it works in 32 bits)
As a result Windows 7 uses a "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" as the driver, the monitor and card works but it wont let me go above 1024x780, is there any way to force a higher resolution in this driver? Both my monitor and card can support it



Best,

I doubt if any pci card will work with 7 64 bit.

There is got to be a hack somewhere that does this

Why? Is there something in x64 based systems that doesn't match with PCI standards?

No drivers for the card, they are so old.

LaptopVideo2Go: Drivers

is a source of driver installers with a modified .inf that forces the installer to work for cards that nVidia doesn't officially support.

I don't see TNT2 in the latest hacked .inf on the site, though.

There's nothing in the Microsoft Update Catalog for the TNT2 for any 64 bit OS.

The TNT2 was introduced in 1999. Maybe you should be looking at slightly newer junkyard graphics cards (Geforce 4 MX, maybe).

With old cards it`s just trial and error.

I found the solution
Go to Display / screen resolutions, click advanced settings, go to the monitor tab and unclick "hide resolutions this monitor can't display"

That works for the generic VGA drivers? Neat.

Yep