How to Create and Set a Custom Resolution on Windows?

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Originally published at: How to Create and Set a Custom Resolution on Windows?

Windows allows you to select from a range of preset screen resolutions for your display, determined by your graphics card or GPU and monitor hardware. You can easily adjust your screen resolution using one of these presets. However, what if you need a resolution not included in these options? This is where custom resolutions come…

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It won’t increase your performance in games, taking down the resolution might help though but the refresh rate won’t increase your game’s performance in any noticeable way. Also, your hardware might not support a lower refresh rate or your

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Have you tried following the 3rd method? It is more specific towards AMD cards.

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can u help me? I set 1600x1080 and i can’t delete this resolution.
i want to delete this because my monitor are black when i turn on computer and i need to set resolution manualy with keyboard. (do not mind my speech, I do not know so well English)

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Can you post a screen shot? and does it works on another properties (the right click)?

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Contact me on my Discord so that I can check this issue while you screen share, Zubyan Gul#9955

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Try a different method to set the resolution and make sure that the display scaling is set to GPU. Also, make sure that you first create the resolution in the Nvidia control panel if you are using that.

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Can you post a screen shot? and does it works on another properties (the right click)?

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It started working now after i reseted my pc

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Thanks!!! Method 4 finally worked for me. My monitor’s cable (the blue one) fell out one time and when I plugged it back in, the aespect ratio was different and when I tried to change it back, my monitor’s standard default resolution (1440x900) was missing? I tried for hours trying to figure out how to fix it but finally just using the custom resolution software thingy helped me fix it back. Now I finally have my real resolution back. Thank god

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Thank you very much! The method 1 for Intel works perfect for me.

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Can you post a screen shot? and does it works on another properties (the right click)?

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For the AMD one it seems when i press right click on DALNonStandardModesBCD1. it doesnt give me an option edit

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Try creating it:

Right-click on the “0000” folder and select “New” > “Key.”

Name the new key “DALNonStandardModesBCD1” and press Enter.

Right-click on the new “DALNonStandardModesBCD1” key and select “New” > “DWORD (32-bit) Value.”

Name the new value “DALNonStandardModesBCD1” and press Enter.

Double-click on the new “DALNonStandardModesBCD1” value and set the value data to “1” and click OK.

Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

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I cant find "
DALNonStandardModesBCD1" in method 3, pls help

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i got error: No display found in registry run restart.exe or reboot to redtect display i
i did all of this no fixed also tried restart64.exe

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i need help i still cant put custom resolution. once i do all these steps and go to restart64 my resolution changes to the desired one but only for like 2 seconds and it comes back to the previos normal one. Does anyone know how can i fix this?
i am using amd gpu

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Can you post a screen shot? and does it works on another properties (the right click)?

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Are you working from a laptop? There might be two things happening here.

  1. Either you set the custom resolution for your laptop screen and not for the external monitor. Make sure you plug in your monitor, then select your external monitor in your intel hd graphics, set the custom resolution then apply it

  2. Everytime you unplug and plug in your external monitor, new settings are acquired depending on its resolution and the old ones are overwritten. So you need to set the custom resolution after you plug in your monitor

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Hi
Thanks for the article, I have followed the steps to set up the custom resolution and when I look in the Intel HD Control panel the resolution is there. However when I then click on the desktop and try and select the cusom resolution for my external monitor it does not appear in the list for me to select from it still reverts to the recommended resolution?