Or, like me, if you’re bad with numbers use a resolution scale calculator to be on the safe side and get a list of compatible resolutions for your screen, based on its default resolution. Google you model if you’re not sure what it is. It’s 16:10, in my case, many displays are 16:9. Unless you want to see things distorted on your screen, your new resolution must use the same ratio as your display. But I know Active Horizontal, Active Vertical and Scan rate (the one defined in Hz, the rightmost at the bottom of the screen, not the one in KHz next to it) are the values to keep in mind. I have no idea what all these values mean. In the left pane, select your display and click the Current Resolutions tab. I repeat: you must not use settings over what your display is physically capable of, or things will go wrong, and getting them back in order is no fun if you don’t have a second screen.Īfter installing SwitchResX, go to System Preferences->SwitchResX. You need to install SwitchResX before you can do anything. Do not forget to turn it back on after you’ve created your custom resolution(s). You will need to use the Terminal to deactivate SIP - what the heck is SIP?.So, take your time and if you don’t feel confident enough to do it by yourself, don’t do it by yourself. Playing with custom display resolution is not complex, but it’s easy to screw up and turn your monitor to full black without an easy way out.I will show how to check these in a moment. Also, you can’t use a screen refresh rate (the Hz thingy you will often see printed next to its resolution in product reviews) higher than what your screen is capable of– really, you don’t want to do that. SwitchResX is no magical wand, there is no way to turn your 1080p display into a 4 or 5K one. Maybe you want things on screen to be a bigger so you can see them from farther away? Or whatever. I can’t get 144Hz on either display, so maybe DSC is still broken.Yesterday, I mentioned using SwitchResX to create custom screen resolutions when those provided by Apple are not enough to compensate for my bad eyesight.īut you don’t have to have a bad eyesight to create a custom resolution. However, as I understand it, a lot of display fixes were backported to Big Sur in one of the point releases, and I’m on the latest Big Sur release. I can’t upgrade to MacOS Montery as this is a work laptop. However, if I go to System Preferences → Displays → Option-click “scaled resolution” → check “show low resolution modes”, and open the “Hz” menu, both cables allow selecting 120Hz no problem!Īre there only certain cables compatible with the Eve Spectrum? Are Intel Macbooks incompatible with the Eve Spectrum in particular? What do I need to buy, or what can I do? What I didn’t expect is that on a Gigabyte M28U, both cables give I connect to the M28U with either cable, it defaults to 4k 60hz. From the forum posts, I thought this was probably a MacOS issue. This doesn’t seem to change regardless of what settings I tweak.Īfter trying all of this, I decided to try a different monitor. When I connect with the Thunderbolt 4 certified USB-C to USB-C cable, I get no connection at all. I tried to do a custom resolution, but no luck, it said was invalid (though I may have done this wrong - I used the simplified option, but just selected CVT and maybe I should have selected a different option?) SwitchResX gives an option for but not at 4k. However, even so, I have no option to switch to 120hz or 144hz (not even with a lower resolution). When I connect with the USB-C to DP cable, it defaults automatically. this Thunderbolt 4 certified USB-C to USB-C cable:.MacBook Pro 16-inch (2019), Intel chip, running Big Sur 11.6.1.Eve Spectrum ES07D03 running firmware version 104.I read through 4K 144Hz over USB-C from MacBook Pro?, but there are a ton of posts, and no clear conclusion.
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