How do I get higher resolution with apple cinema display with gtx 680?

[pat500000]

The highest resolution that I get is 1920x 1200. I thought you can go higher than that?
Any tip?

 

[chabig]

Which Cinema Display? If it's the 24" Cinema Display, it's native resolution is 1920 x 1200.

 

[pat500000]

Which Cinema Display? If it's the 24" Cinema Display, it's native resolution is 1920 x 1200.

oh yea...i meant 24...

Oh okay. Time to upgrade monitor then. any recommendation?

 

[666sheep]

Something thinner.

 

[ActionableMango]

Oh okay. Time to upgrade monitor then. any recommendation?

How much more resolution do you need? 1440P is the next bump after 1200, and then you're starting to look at 4K after that, which may or may not work with your video card.

 

[pat500000]

How much more resolution do you need? 1440P is the next bump after 1200, and then you're starting to look at 4K after that, which may or may not work with your video card.

I thought 680 does 4K?

 

[PieTunes]

Yes the 680 does 4K just fine.

 

[h9826790]

Back to 10.9.3, you can hold option and click scaled in system preferences -> display to get the resolution that higher than the monitor can display. That means you can force display 4K (or even higher) on you 24" ACD (of course, everything will be super small, hardly readable). However, Apple remove that ability after a short period of time.

And now, if you want higher resolution, you need to connect a higher resolution monitor, otherwise, that option won't appear.

 

[pat500000]

Back in to something about 10.9.1, you can hold option and click scaled in system preferences -> display to get the resolution that higher than the monitor can display. That means you can force display 4K (or even higher) on you 24" ACD (of course, everything will be super small, hardly readable). However, Apple remove that ability after a short period of time.

And now, if you want higher resolution, you need to connect a higher resolution monitor, otherwise, that option won't appear.

Thanks. Never you knew you could do that in the past.

 

[pastrychef]

Back in to something about 10.9.1, you can hold option and click scaled in system preferences -> display to get the resolution that higher than the monitor can display. That means you can force display 4K (or even higher) on you 24" ACD (of course, everything will be super small, hardly readable). However, Apple remove that ability after a short period of time.

And now, if you want higher resolution, you need to connect a higher resolution monitor, otherwise, that option won't appear.

I don't remember that ever being an option.

 

[h9826790]

I don't remember that ever being an option.

It's was mentioned in this thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/4k-at-60-hz.1735542/#post-19124560

 

[pastrychef]

Wow. That's the strangest thing. How are they able to make everything legible???

 

[h9826790]

Wow. That's the strangest thing. How are they able to make everything legible???

TBH, I have no idea, I was very enjoying to play around the resolution on at that time. And Apple took that away in short period of time.

My understanding is that everything was done at the OS level. So the OS…

1) allow you to choose a higher resolution, even though the cable / monitor do not support it.

2) call the GPU to render everything at that resolution

3) scale the image back to the resolution that the monitor can support and display it

Therefore, if made a screen capture, it will capture the pre-scaled (original resolution) screen from the VRAM.

I really like that idea. Even though may not be very useful in daily life, but I can use 1440P HiDPI to make my display at the "native" resolution, but screenshot shows the full 5k 1440P picture, etc.

At that moment, 4K was quite new to OSX, may be Apple was finding its own way to handle 4K (or 5k) and that's just a result of "bug".

This "super resolution" stuff only worked at the desktop level, but not system level. If I enter a game, the max resolution will revert back to the monitor's max.