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That's probably something to do with the GPU driver. Win98 doesn't really have any intrinsic limit on display resolution beyond the 16-bit limit (32k in each dimension, although I suspect you'll run out of address space for the framebuffer first) --- I've personally used 98se on a CRT at 2048x1536.

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An update in case anybody comes across this. I found you were correct and the issue was my graphics driver, an Nvidia Detonator driver in this case. I installed a Voodoo3 (AGP) with stock drivers and enabled native 1920x1200x32 resolution under Windows 98 SE with no panning. A little fuzzy over VGA, but usable!

Maybe Windows9x doesn't get along with non-4:3 aspect ratio screens?

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