After reading through I swear 80 pages of replies on dozens of topics, I never found one definitive guide on how to get this monitor working on my Late 2013 Retina Macbook Pro 13" with the integrated Iris GPU.
So after a long trial and error game, I finally arrived at the solution. Seeing that there were at least 20 other people out there who were struggling with this and not finding a definitive answer, I figured I'd create a new topic that gives the answer on the first post and hopefully others who are struggling (like me) will be able to find it more easily...
Step 1:
- Download SwitchResX (http://www.madrau.com/index.html)
Step 2:
- Disable SIPS (http://www.madrau.com/support/support/srx_1011.html)
Step 3:
- Set up Custom Resolution in SwitchResX (see attached screenshots)
- Save, Reboot
Step 4:
- Switch to 52Hz in the Displays Pref Panel
Step 5:
- Enable SIPS (http://www.madrau.com/support/support/srx_1011.html)
Notes:
- I have an A02 revision
- I am unsure what "Positive Synch" does. It works both on / off for horizontal / vertical and I see no noticeable difference. Anyone know?
- The Front / Back Porch settings are for CRT monitors (from what I can tell). I tried setting them to "0" and got some noise on the bottom of the screen. Setting them to "1" seems to fix that issue and give's us the highest Hz possible.
- The pixel clock on this monitor seems to be 450MHz, any setting that goes over that cannot be displayed.
- The "Sync width" could possibly also be tuned further, but I'm unsure what the optimal setting would be. I pulled the "144" and "3" from the Standard resolution of 1920x1080@60hz. Anyone have clarity on what this setting effects and if this is an optimal value?
So after a long trial and error game, I finally arrived at the solution. Seeing that there were at least 20 other people out there who were struggling with this and not finding a definitive answer, I figured I'd create a new topic that gives the answer on the first post and hopefully others who are struggling (like me) will be able to find it more easily...
Step 1:
- Download SwitchResX (http://www.madrau.com/index.html)
Step 2:
- Disable SIPS (http://www.madrau.com/support/support/srx_1011.html)
Step 3:
- Set up Custom Resolution in SwitchResX (see attached screenshots)
- Save, Reboot
Step 4:
- Switch to 52Hz in the Displays Pref Panel
Step 5:
- Enable SIPS (http://www.madrau.com/support/support/srx_1011.html)
Notes:
- I have an A02 revision
- I am unsure what "Positive Synch" does. It works both on / off for horizontal / vertical and I see no noticeable difference. Anyone know?
- The Front / Back Porch settings are for CRT monitors (from what I can tell). I tried setting them to "0" and got some noise on the bottom of the screen. Setting them to "1" seems to fix that issue and give's us the highest Hz possible.
- The pixel clock on this monitor seems to be 450MHz, any setting that goes over that cannot be displayed.
- The "Sync width" could possibly also be tuned further, but I'm unsure what the optimal setting would be. I pulled the "144" and "3" from the Standard resolution of 1920x1080@60hz. Anyone have clarity on what this setting effects and if this is an optimal value?
