Is there a reason you're still holding onto CRT displays?
Please read
here (sorry, it's in German language) – there are more than only several reasons mentioned for using CRTs!
They've been out of production/out of style for a good 4~6 years now
Should that be a valuable reason for throwing away a bunch of those CRTs still in best conditions and still in use for special tasks?
and are quite limited in resolution
Can you please offer me a bunch of Displays that are as sharp as CRTs in at least three different resolutions that are needed on the same screen in full size?
It's an advantage NOT to be widescreen! Several of them are pivot monitors that are used vertically!
So far nothing valuable said, sorry – or what did you wanna tell ...
85Hz should be plenty speedy enough as it is.
Enough? What for? here 100Hz and 120Hz is still in use and needed as less would cause flickering and interferences!
If you can't select higher, it's probably because windows
now we're talking seriously ...
or your graphics card have not detected higher.
What did I tell before: they are running in THE SAME CONFIGURATION WITH THE SAME GRAPHICS CARD as before with WinXP; so why should the Graphics Card not be able to run 100Hz/120Hz if they can under WinXP?
Are you using proper drivers?
As said: original drivers from the manufacturer installed automatically from Win8
You may need a driver for your monitor
as said: the monitor IS CORRECTLY RECOGNIZED BY TYPE/MODEL NUMBER AND MANUFACTURER!
(there's a few cases where this is necessary and CRTs are connected via an analog VGA cable, which does even less to communicate information back to the PC about the monitor's capabilities).
Crippling the wiring (cutting the wire with the device info) often has unpredictable issues; then the monitor is no longer recognized at all – and the selectable modes can be even less ...
If you're using nVidia, you could also try setting a custom resolution with the refresh rate in mind, and see if it takes it.
Bad expierience with something like that; the result was things like flickering 56Hz when setting to anything more than 80Hz, offering of 160Hz in a mode the monitor was not able to support etc.
I've never seen a person using a CRT with any machine that can run Vista, 7, or 8
Is there an official issue report that CRTs from the side of Microsoft that CRTs are not supported and should not run with Vista/7/8? If yes: where to find?
so I don't know if perhaps they limited the selectable refresh rate to 85hz in the post-XP era...
That would be a big shame, but quite possible ... Btw: it's not only the officially selectable refresh rate, it's the refresh rate itself that is crippled compared to the Windows 2000 and Winows XP capabilities ...
The question is still: how to do that what was done under Windows 2000 and Windows XP: 100Hz / 120Hz etc. – not less and not more ... sorry for my maybe not so polite reply ...
