Comments on: Cintiq 20WSX Snow Leopard Workaround

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:26:33 +0000

Yeah. SwitchRes isn’t the most user friendly application. It does seem to be the only solution at the moment. Boo hiss.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:44:22 +0000

Ok….spoke too soon. After a reboot (two times) everything works perfectly! Thanks for your help!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:30:29 +0000

I installed the original solution at the top of this screen….and….no luck….

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:09:26 +0000

Yeah, I’m having the same trouble on my brand new Mac Pro….display will let me set at 1680×1050 but everything looks really pixelated and bad. Anyone have any suggestions?

By: Andres

Andres — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:26:57 +0000

Thanx for that i was getting crazy with my cintiq, greetings from Ecuador

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:36:29 +0000

Not sure if anyone still reads this, but does anyone have, or has anyone seen, this happen on ATI cards? Or is it just NVIDIA and Intel? Thanks,

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:43:05 +0000

While SystemResX might be a pain in the %&@# it seems to work rather well, but is only a trial. Looks like you need to buy it.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:58:59 +0000

Regardless of connection type, with computer and Cintiq20 turned off, flip the switch to the VGA position. Power on the Cintiq20 and then power on the Mac. It will let you set it to 1680×1050 @60Hz. This happened a bunch with original MBPro on the NVIDIA 6800 Mobile card, and it was the advanced timings like you can adjust in your SwitchResX app. Now it will happen on Intel and NVIDIA cards. PC users with similar issues have specific video card drivers and CPL interfaces with the ability to adjust this built-in… too bad Mac does not. It’s likely got something to do with the EDID info coming from the Cintiq20 and what 10.6.x does with that info. Will test SwitchResX as well and see how that fares with Cintiq20 switch in DVI position.

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:15:23 +0000

I didn’t adjust either porch or clock; I just created a 1680×1050 resolution, input 60hz (and it did adjust to a slightly lower number than 60 for one of the options – horizontal or vertical, I can’t recall and am on the road at the moment). It works fine.

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:05:30 +0000

any chance of getting your custom settings?

when i choose custom resolution and add in the 1680×1050 native 20wsx resolution, the refresh rate seems to automatically adjust to something under 60hz

and do i need to worry about front porch, pixel clock?

thanks for any help

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:24:32 +0000

Dwayne, the gamma seems better than before. Apple did switch to the PC standard and away from their old default gamma too.

Psyc, no problemo! I saved my eyes too. ;p

By: PsycArtist

PsycArtist — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:43:43 +0000

Ah thank you for this! I just installed Snow Leopard and had a mini freak out at why my Cintiq resolution was so low.

You have saved my eyes~!

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By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:37:16 +0000

Nice one Ray!
Is the gamma ok? I was never happy with the gamma on my 21UX and have just learned to accept it, moving my work over to my cinema for final tweaking.