After switching our project from Unity 2017.4.16 to 2019.1.9.4, we started getting Couldn’t switch to requested monitor resolution on random systems on Windows build. We Tried following things to fix the issue
- Tried different resolution and presentation settings in Unity player settings.
- Clearing registry
- Decreasing the display resolution of the system.
- Switching to Unity 2019.1.9.11.
but were still unable to fix the issue. The only way we were able to fix the issue was to switch Graphic API for windows from OpenGLCore to Direct3D11.
Created an example project
In example project we have switched the Graphic API for windows to OpenGLCore by default. Create a build on Windows platform and run the application on similar specs machine.
Attachments
- ResolutionTest example project.
- Specs.txt contains System specs.
- ResolutionTest.PNG contains screenshot of the error.
4771346–454259–Specs.txt (95.3 KB)
4771346–454265–ResolutionIssueTest.zip (19.7 KB)
Thanks for the quick reply. I read the post you mentioned. We encountered this issue in two scenarios. One is refresh rate issue which you have mentioned and other one does not depend on refresh rate. Following are the details of second case:
I have a laptop and monitor. My monitor has two refresh rates 59 and 60. By default it is set to 59. I get “Couldn’t switch to requested monitor resolution” on my machine only when I set my display to second screen only (which is my monitor). Monitor has two refresh rates 59 and 60 and resolution is 2560 x 1440. Issue occurs on both refresh rates.
In unity resolution and presentation settings I have set the FullScreenMode to Windowed and default resolution to 1600 x 1140. If I just update the resolution to 1920 x 1080 then my build just runs fine.
That is the same underlying cause for that issue. Even when you don’t explicitly set a refresh rate, we calculate one for you, and that goes wrong when using OpenGL.
i am facing this issue even i’m not using OpenGlCore default DX11 i tried to switch to DX12 but no luck giving me same error .unity 2018 is working fine tried lot of games they are working fine too arkham city,asylum,bioshock etc, when i report this problem to unity they said “we can’t reproduce this problem problem will be in drivers” i tried every driver available for GPU. Not to mention i break my windows twice in this changing driver process
my laptop is lenovo W520
quadro 2000M 2GB
laptop res is:- 1080X1920
i7 2nd gen
