59Hz

this bug has been brought back from the dead in the latest W7 build (7077). at least with Windows 7's official nvidia driver: 181.71.

gonna try the latest Vista drivers to see if it's fixed there.

I have a pair of HP LP2475w monitors and an NEC 20WMGX2 -- all three of them were 60Hz under XP Pro, Vista Home Premium 32-bit and Vista Ultimate 64-bit. And all three revert to 59Hz under both of the Win7 versions I've tried -- 7000 x64 and 7068 x64 -- regardless of the driver installed (packaged with Win7 or from video card mfgr website), the monitor profile (again, pkgd w/ W7 or f/ mfgr), or where I attempt to force the settings. Three different computers (P965/Q6600, P45/Q9650 & X58/i7-920), three different video cards (ATI 3650, 4650, 4850). Something's wonky with windows.

swarfega said:

ok I think Ive found the fix for this issue. Like you guys mine was reading 59hz after installing 7077.

What you need to do is:

1. right click on desktop and select screen resolution,
2. On the screen that appears, select advanced settings (if you have more than one monitor you will need to use the monitor selector at the top and then advanced settings for each monitor),
3. select the adapter tab and click list all modes and then select a mode with 60hz (again you'l need to do this for each monitor),
4. Go to the monitor tab, and choose 60hz and then apply and ok.

hopefully this should fix the problem. It is preferable that you have proper drivers for your monitor rather than the generic drivers.

The problem is not selecting 60Hz, the problem is that once you have set it, go back and have another look and you will see that it has revered to 59Hz again, the only time I've had it stick was when I used the Windows 7 driver from Nvidia.

Have you tried the "Manage Custom Resolutions" tab in nVidia Control Panel?

That's how I got it to stick on mine.