Strange Video Problem

rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: Strange Video Problem

Strange... this never happened before.

I have my desktop set to 1280x1024 on my 17" monitor. Up until I installed my new CPU, if I had a game set to 1024x768 it would stretch and fit to fill the entire screen. But now it stays really small in the middle of the screen and hangs off the side a little bit. I have an ati x850 pro with the catalyst 5.13 drivers. Was it right before or now?

UPDATE: EWW I just found that if I make my desktop 1024x768 it looks all screwed up like the game does. This is very strange...

Does anyone know what could cause this? It didn't do this before I installed my CPU.
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Stevo · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject:

There might be a setting in your bios to make the screen stretch to fit the display.

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Bleeding Tomato · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:15 am Post subject:

Does everything else seem to be working properly?
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:55 am Post subject:

Yea everything is great. Just 1024x768 doesn't stretch to fit the screen.
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:41 am Post subject:

Hmm well I decided to reinstall my graphics drivers and it was fine on 1024x768 until I tried it on 1280x1024 then switched back to 1024x768. Now it looks like it did before. Must be an issue with the drivers.
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Bleeding Tomato · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:48 am Post subject:

That's what I was betting on. Your motherboard may need a bios update for the new cpu also.
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Simpleman · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:59 am Post subject:

Try running it in a window

. I have had mine do that as well. Also make sure in the ATI manager that you have it set to run the same screen size as desktop. There is setting for it. If it's not set it will default to the smaller size. hope this helps.

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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject:

Ok thanks simple. Hopefully theres a fix for this problem in the next catalyst drivers.
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Simpleman · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

Yeah it's called the catalyst control center. It should come with the driver or I should say they have it set as a package. It's a really cool program that allows you to set everything all the way up to over clocking it

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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject:

Hmm so I found out that this may be a monitor driver problem! This is the monitor from my old HP computer. I downloaded the monitor drivers for my OS but it didn't fix anything. That would explain a lot though cuz it did this after I formatted with XP media center edition and now with xp 64-bit. OY! I hated this monitor before, not I hate it more....
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