I have no idea what all these values mean. In the left pane, select your display and click the Current Resolutions tab. I repeat: you must not use settings over what your display is physically capable of, or things will go wrong, and getting them back in order is no fun if you don’t have a second screen.Īfter installing SwitchResX, go to System Preferences->SwitchResX. You need to install SwitchResX before you can do anything. Do not forget to turn it back on after you’ve created your custom resolution(s). You will need to use the Terminal to deactivate SIP - what the heck is SIP?.So, take your time and if you don’t feel confident enough to do it by yourself, don’t do it by yourself. Playing with custom display resolution is not complex, but it’s easy to screw up and turn your monitor to full black without an easy way out.
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I will show how to check these in a moment.
Also, you can’t use a screen refresh rate (the Hz thingy you will often see printed next to its resolution in product reviews) higher than what your screen is capable of– really, you don’t want to do that. SwitchResX is no magical wand, there is no way to turn your 1080p display into a 4 or 5K one.
Maybe you want things on screen to be a bigger so you can see them from farther away? Or whatever. Yesterday, I mentioned using SwitchResX to create custom screen resolutions when those provided by Apple are not enough to compensate for my bad eyesight.īut you don’t have to have a bad eyesight to create a custom resolution.
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