Screen reolution detection on Xbox

Question

Hi,

I am trying to detect the screen resolution for the TV/Monitor connected to Xbox One and Xbox One S/X devices, I am using below code

DisplayInformation^ displayInformation = DisplayInformation::GetForCurrentView();

displayInformation->ScreenHeightInRawPixels;displayInformation->ScreenWidthInRawPixels;

But I am getting 1080p as the resolution for all the TV's/Monitor's. But some of these devices doesn't support 1080p resolution itself. Also, when switched the Xbox resolution to 720p, the resolution detected was 1080p.

So, can someone please suggest the API to detect the screen resolution on the Xbox One devices?

Answer 1

Hello @Shikhar Jain ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

Is there any API which will allow me to collect the screen resolution of the TV/Monitor?

If your app is not running in full-screen mode, you might need to get the display device instead and gets the native resolution.

You could try to use DeviceInformation.CreateWatcher method to enumerate all the display devices and create DisplayMonitor Class for the display class. Then you could check the NativeResolutionInRawPixels property of DisplayMonitor object to get the native resolution.

I made a simple test on my side on a PC, not an Xbox(because we don't have an Xbox here.). It should work on Xbox as well. Here is the code snippet:

            var deviceSelector = DisplayMonitor.GetDeviceSelector();  
            var devices = await DeviceInformation.FindAllAsync(deviceSelector);  
            foreach (var device in devices)  
            {  
                Debug.WriteLine("Kind: {0} Name: {1} Id: {2}", device.Kind, device.Name, device.Id);  
                DisplayMonitor displayMonitor = await DisplayMonitor.FromInterfaceIdAsync(device.Id);  
                Debug.WriteLine("resolution: " + displayMonitor.NativeResolutionInRawPixels.Width + " x " + displayMonitor.NativeResolutionInRawPixels.Height);  
            }  

Thank you.

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