I just bought a new monitor for my 5 (!) year old desktop, decided I had enough of looking at a tiny little screen, and went for a 22" Samsung widescreen LCD. According to the documentation I should now be able to have a resolution of 1680x1050, but when I set the "display properties" at this value, the picture is magnified to the extent that I can only view a small section of the picture at a time, i.e. everything on the screen appears too large.

The monitor came with cables for both analog and digital connections, although I have only connected the analog, since my desktop does not have a digital video outlet.

For the time being, I have set the resolution back to the original 1024x768, and for watching movies, etc. this is no problem per se, but I would really like to utilize the screen to its fullest potential.

Do I need to go out and buy a new video card as well, or is there something else I can do to tweak the system?

I don't really want to buy a new computer, despite its age, it is still more than adequate for what we are using it for (basically emails, internet, downloads, office work, watching movies). I just added some more memory and a bought a couple of TBs of external storage, so the machine is pretty good for its age.

Anyone?