No fullscreen at QHDTV+

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Hello all,

I am a SDL newbie using SDL with WinXP and a NVidia Quadro FX1700. The connected display device and the windows desktop are running at QHDTV+ (3840x2400) @ 33Hz. A tiny SDL application I wrote for creating a true color test image runs fine in a scalable windowed mode. Even maximizing this window works fine without a problem. But when using the fullscreen mode at QHDTV+, SDL_SetVideoMode() fails and SDL_GetError() returns:

No video mode large enough for 3840x2400

Thus I verified the available fullscreen video modes with SDL_ListModes() and the biggest video mode reported is just HDTV+ (1920x1200). Is this a limitation of SDL, DirectX or the NVidia driver? How can I further debug this issue?

Regards
Martin

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No video mode large enough for 3840x2400

I don’t see any limitations in the SDL code. What does the windows
display settings control panel show?

You can also try out the PRERELEASE SDL 1.3 code, which uses a slightly
different codepath:
http://www.lisdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.zip

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

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Sam,

The Windows display control panel shows 3840x2400x32bpp. As I said, the windowed stuff works fine with that resolution. Just fullscreen modes work only up to 1920x1200, which I have successfully tested with the same setup.

However, as I am currently using SDL 1.2.13 maybe 1.3 is worth a try, tomorrow… I’ll keep you updated.

Martin-----Original Message-----
From: sdl-bounces@lists.libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-bounces at lists.libsdl.org] On Behalf Of Sam Lantinga
Sent: Montag, 17. M?rz 2008 17:01
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)
Subject: Re: [SDL] No fullscreen at QHDTV+

No video mode large enough for 3840x2400

I don’t see any limitations in the SDL code. What does the windows
display settings control panel show?

You can also try out the PRERELEASE SDL 1.3 code, which uses a slightly
different codepath:
http://www.lisdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.zip

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

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I could not use SDL-1.3, since there seems to be no binary version available, yet. And I don’t want to spend the effort to make my system able to get the dll built.

However, I figured out, it’s not libsdl to blame for my problem: The highest display mode reported by EnumDisplaySettings() is 1920x1200.

Thus, either GDI or the NVidia driver plays a trick on me here.

Regards
Martin-----Original Message-----
From: sdl-bounces@lists.libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-bounces at lists.libsdl.org] On Behalf Of Bahlinger, Martin
Sent: Montag, 17. M?rz 2008 17:13
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)
Subject: Re: [SDL] No fullscreen at QHDTV+

Sam,

The Windows display control panel shows 3840x2400x32bpp. As I said, the windowed stuff works fine with that resolution. Just fullscreen modes work only up to 1920x1200, which I have successfully tested with the same setup.

However, as I am currently using SDL 1.2.13 maybe 1.3 is worth a try, tomorrow… I’ll keep you updated.

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: sdl-bounces@lists.libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-bounces at lists.libsdl.org] On Behalf Of Sam Lantinga
Sent: Montag, 17. M?rz 2008 17:01
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)
Subject: Re: [SDL] No fullscreen at QHDTV+

No video mode large enough for 3840x2400

I don’t see any limitations in the SDL code. What does the windows
display settings control panel show?

You can also try out the PRERELEASE SDL 1.3 code, which uses a slightly
different codepath:
http://www.lisdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.zip

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

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have you tried the direct x driver?On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Bahlinger, Martin <martin.bahlinger at barco.com> wrote:

I could not use SDL-1.3, since there seems to be no binary version available, yet. And I don’t want to spend the effort to make my system able to get the dll built.

However, I figured out, it’s not libsdl to blame for my problem: The highest display mode reported by EnumDisplaySettings() is 1920x1200.

Thus, either GDI or the NVidia driver plays a trick on me here.

Regards
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: sdl-bounces at lists.libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-bounces at lists.libsdl.org] On Behalf Of Bahlinger, Martin
Sent: Montag, 17. M?rz 2008 17:13
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)
Subject: Re: [SDL] No fullscreen at QHDTV+

Sam,

The Windows display control panel shows 3840x2400x32bpp. As I said, the windowed stuff works fine with that resolution. Just fullscreen modes work only up to 1920x1200, which I have successfully tested with the same setup.

However, as I am currently using SDL 1.2.13 maybe 1.3 is worth a try, tomorrow… I’ll keep you updated.

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: sdl-bounces at lists.libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-bounces at lists.libsdl.org] On Behalf Of Sam Lantinga
Sent: Montag, 17. M?rz 2008 17:01
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)
Subject: Re: [SDL] No fullscreen at QHDTV+

No video mode large enough for 3840x2400

I don’t see any limitations in the SDL code. What does the windows
display settings control panel show?

You can also try out the PRERELEASE SDL 1.3 code, which uses a slightly
different codepath:
http://www.lisdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.zip

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

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I just tried the SDL directx driver and got the same story, just modes available up to 1920x1200.

Interesting fact: Even the dxdiag fullscreen tests switch the output back to 1920x1200. I think I will have to try a different graphics cards and drivers.

Cheers
Martin-----Original Message-----
From: sdl-bounces@lists.libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-bounces at lists.libsdl.org] On Behalf Of Ren? Dudfield
Sent: Mittwoch, 19. M?rz 2008 23:32
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)
Subject: Re: [SDL] No fullscreen at QHDTV+

have you tried the direct x driver?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Bahlinger, Martin <@Bahlinger_Martin> wrote:

I could not use SDL-1.3, since there seems to be no binary version available, yet. And I don’t want to spend the effort to make my system able to get the dll built.

However, I figured out, it’s not libsdl to blame for my problem: The highest display mode reported by EnumDisplaySettings() is 1920x1200.

Thus, either GDI or the NVidia driver plays a trick on me here.

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