Author Topic: ohnoes, display settings borked! (Read 2704 times)

ChexGuy331 · June 11, 2008, 05:10:52 PM

Halp, my display settings are borked. It only lets me do 640x480 with 4bit color!

What I do?

I played Wing Commander Prophecy, then the comp crashed and it happened!

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Osak · June 11, 2008, 05:14:53 PM

It happened to me once on second life so I plugged the computer out

ChexGuy331 · June 11, 2008, 05:18:38 PM

[sarcasm]Gee, that helps a lot![/sarcasm]

Carzo · June 11, 2008, 05:35:07 PM

Quote from: koolkody12 on June 11, 2008, 05:14:53 PM

It happened to me once on second life so I plugged the computer out

Who says that?

tails · June 11, 2008, 05:38:58 PM

turn it off and back on again?

Bisjac · June 11, 2008, 05:39:04 PM

sounds like your nvidia/ati drivers are being completely ignored lol.

dont install new, uninstall old ones first, or dl a driver cleaner for it

tails · June 11, 2008, 05:39:35 PM

my screen will do normal sizes without drivers

Bisjac · June 11, 2008, 05:42:30 PM

my monitor wont do half the resolutions without the video card drivers.

Marcem · June 11, 2008, 06:25:46 PM

Because your monitor is, uh, 6000 x 9000?

Jsk2003 · June 11, 2008, 06:48:13 PM

Quote from: Marcem on June 11, 2008, 06:25:46 PM

Because your monitor is, uh, 6000 x 9000?

That's HORRIBLE PROPORTIONS! 2:3?! lolol

Guessing he has widescreen

I would guess like 2000 x 1125

EDIT: I halved the values again since I then imagined what a 4000 x 2250 screen would be like. Too ridiculous.

Osak · June 11, 2008, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: ChexGuy331 on June 11, 2008, 05:18:38 PM

[sarcasm]Gee, that helps a lot![/sarcasm]

Lolz it actually worked for me.

ChexGuy331 · June 11, 2008, 07:08:27 PM

1280x1024 (originally)

Marcem · June 11, 2008, 07:48:55 PM

Quote from: Jsk2003 on June 11, 2008, 06:48:13 PM

Quote from: Marcem on June 11, 2008, 06:25:46 PM
Because your monitor is, uh, 6000 x 9000?

That's HORRIBLE PROPORTIONS! 2:3?! lolol

Guessing he has widescreen

I would guess like 2000 x 1125

EDIT: I halved the values again since I then imagined what a 4000 x 2250 screen would be like. Too ridiculous.

Cmon, his monitor is tall, who wouldn't want a tall monitor?

VerticalHorizon · June 11, 2008, 09:04:47 PM

This happened to me when I alt tabbed out of a really old game that ran on different display settings, I had to start it in safe mode and change the settings there. (I think)

Bisjac · June 11, 2008, 09:27:46 PM

some full screen games refuse to JUST set a resolution for the game itself, it forces the entire computers desktop to change to it also.
if you caused it to crash, just forced closed, or whatever; it didn't change itself back.

i played a game once that wouldn't let me use up to my 1920x1200, just a max of 1440x900.
yet the desktop changed itself down to 800x600 during this time. i will never understand it