I dont understand why, but skyrim keeps defaulting to 1280*720 after i detect video settings. It detects ultra, but 1280 keeps comming up default. This is the only game that does this and i cant understand why.

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What's the native resolution of your monitor?

It's hooked up to my tv. 1920*1080. Witcher 2 defaults to 1920. Skyrim for some reason doesnt. I have tried updating to 306 drivers from nvidia but it still does this.

That's pretty strange behavior, since your other games are having no issues with resolution detecting and holding properly. It must be another one of those strange obscure issues, involving Skyrim that doesn't show up or effect everyone, but for whatever reason it's causing you some issues...wonder if anyone else has had this happen to them.

I change the resolution to 1920*1080 and it looks amazing and glorious and plays so smooth. I just dont understand why its doing it when 1280 isnt even like set on anything on my computer. No other game does this.

1. The game is older than the card is, so it contains no presets to match

2. It probably is using some other card's ID to choose those settings. Why worry about it?