BlameThePixel!

BTForum » Other Stuff » BlameTheHelp » nVidia question!

[]Zippy
Strange
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2033
Threads: 147
Mood: Paranoid
Money: £3733.51 (D)
Inc. Tax: 10%
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour



For those of you who have a GeForce4 video/graphics card hopefully you can help me out. I got the highest nVidea drvier upgrade ok? And I just found the feature where you can make your own custom resolution. For so many years I've wanted the resolution of 1600x1200. I can't pick that resolution unless I uncheck "Hide resolutions my monitor can't display". Now NOTE: I have picked a resolution that my monitor thought I couldn't display and it worked once before. But sometimes if you pick a bad one you will get nothing but a black screen and it will say, "Cannot display this Video Mode." If I happen to get that error? What can I do to prevent it or undo it?

________________
24.02.05 04:40
Post #1
[Hide Sig (11)] [Profile] [Quote]
[S]ReadMe
Absent
Send PM
Posts: 2820
Threads: 85
Money: £43.42 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
wait 15 seconds and your display gets returned to the previous setting unless you say otherwise, and you cant say otherwise if you cant see the box to tick.

________________
Cant be arsed to remake my sig.
24.02.05 08:48
Post #2
[Hide Sig (7)] [Profile] [Quote]
[]Zippy
Strange
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2033
Threads: 147
Mood: Paranoid
Money: £3733.51 (D)
Inc. Tax: 10%
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour



No. I know this may seem cracked out. But I picked a res above 1024x768 and it did the 15 second thing. I stupidly hit Enter so it said "OK" and it snapped to that res. But when it was doing the 15 sec thing it said "Cannot Display this Video Mode". But in case that happens, how do I fix it? That's what I'm asking.

EDIT: I've seen 1600x1200 res on a crappy RBG school monitor. And a flat panel LCD monitor can't do that? No.

________________
24.02.05 20:56
Post #3
Last edited: 24.02.05 20:57 (Zippy - 1 times) [Hide Sig (11)] [Profile] [Quote]
[S]Bloopy
Lazy, Busy, Fizzy, Crazy
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2996
Threads: 145
WA Clan: WwA
Money: £764.65 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
I could write a little program really quickly which you can create a shortcut to, and assign a shortcut key, so if you ever get stuck you would have a way back. It would only take 5-10 minutes, since I recently wrote another little program which changes display settings.

Done :D I'll email it to you

________________

Quoted :: Bloopy

Quoted :: thomasp
I suppose that's one "good" thing about my degree (aero engineering), there aren't too many terms/words/etc that have "alternative" meanings.
What, like cockpits, turboshafts, thrust, nozzles, corkscrews, ram drag, payload, flaps, and wind tunnels?
25.02.05 12:27
Post #4
Last edited: 25.02.05 12:44 (Bloopy - 1 times) [Planet Bloopy] [Hide Sig (7)] [Profile] [Quote]
[G]meiapaul
Statusless
Send PM
Posts:
Threads:
Money: £0.00 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
It took 17 minutes ;)
25.02.05 13:55
Post #5
[Hide Sig (0)] [Profile] [Quote]
[S]Bloopy
Lazy, Busy, Fizzy, Crazy
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2996
Threads: 145
WA Clan: WwA
Money: £764.65 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
But that includes time between posting and deciding to make the program :P The meaty bit of the program is only 5 lines of code or something.

________________

Quoted :: Bloopy

Quoted :: thomasp
I suppose that's one "good" thing about my degree (aero engineering), there aren't too many terms/words/etc that have "alternative" meanings.
What, like cockpits, turboshafts, thrust, nozzles, corkscrews, ram drag, payload, flaps, and wind tunnels?
25.02.05 14:54
Post #6
[Planet Bloopy] [Hide Sig (7)] [Profile] [Quote]
[UA]tundraH
Statusless
Send PM
Posts: 566
Threads: 20
Money: £1.26 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
Boot Windows into safe mode to change the resolution. It loads a generic, stable VGA driver that (iirc) runs at 640*480, 256 colours.
25.02.05 18:38
Post #7
[tundraH.com] [Hide Sig (0)] [Profile] [Quote]
[S]Bloopy
Lazy, Busy, Fizzy, Crazy
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2996
Threads: 145
WA Clan: WwA
Money: £764.65 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
Yeah I had thought about safe mode, but I wasn't completely sure. Of course if you're in the middle of doing something else, you might not want to reset your computer.

________________

Quoted :: Bloopy

Quoted :: thomasp
I suppose that's one "good" thing about my degree (aero engineering), there aren't too many terms/words/etc that have "alternative" meanings.
What, like cockpits, turboshafts, thrust, nozzles, corkscrews, ram drag, payload, flaps, and wind tunnels?
26.02.05 12:13
Post #8
[Planet Bloopy] [Hide Sig (7)] [Profile] [Quote]
[]Zippy
Strange
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2033
Threads: 147
Mood: Paranoid
Money: £3733.51 (D)
Inc. Tax: 10%
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour



Nice application Bloopy, VB? C++?

________________
02.03.05 03:53
Post #9
[Hide Sig (11)] [Profile] [Quote]
[S]Bloopy
Lazy, Busy, Fizzy, Crazy
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2996
Threads: 145
WA Clan: WwA
Money: £764.65 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
C++, I wouldn't call it nice... it's just simple :P

________________

Quoted :: Bloopy

Quoted :: thomasp
I suppose that's one "good" thing about my degree (aero engineering), there aren't too many terms/words/etc that have "alternative" meanings.
What, like cockpits, turboshafts, thrust, nozzles, corkscrews, ram drag, payload, flaps, and wind tunnels?
02.03.05 10:13
Post #10
[Planet Bloopy] [Hide Sig (7)] [Profile] [Quote]
[G]jay
Statusless
Send PM
Posts:
Threads:
Money: £0.00 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
If your in the middle of something else. You shouldnt be fucking with the resolution!

Is this feature in the latest drivers? ill have to get myself up to date. Think i stopped at 66. something.

edited : Looks like its the 66.93 drivers. Im running the beta version of these. Time to upgrade when i can be bothered. *le sigh*
02.03.05 11:28
Post #11
Last edited: 02.03.05 11:29 (Jay - 1 times) [Hide Sig (0)] [Profile] [Quote]
[S]Zogger!
Looking For Status
Send PM
Posts: 3954
Threads: 62
Money: £93.82 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour

Quoted :: Zippy

EDIT: I've seen 1600x1200 res on a crappy RBG school monitor. And a flat panel LCD monitor can't do that? No.


They can, you just have to spend alot.

edit: here's the lowest price example I've found so far:

http://www.rlsupplies.co.uk/products/product.asp?id=2360

________________
You know I'm a dancing machine
02.03.05 17:10
Post #12
Last edited: 02.03.05 17:15 (ZoGgEr! - 1 times) [Hide Sig (8)] [Profile] [Quote]
[]Zippy
Strange
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2033
Threads: 147
Mood: Paranoid
Money: £3733.51 (D)
Inc. Tax: 10%
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour



I said nice because it can really save your ass.

________________
03.03.05 02:17
Post #13
[Hide Sig (11)] [Profile] [Quote]
[G]meiapaul
Statusless
Send PM
Posts:
Threads:
Money: £0.00 (D)
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour
Well, it only saves your ass if you ae stupid enough to press enter when your res dies ;)
03.03.05 17:05
Post #14
[Hide Sig (0)] [Profile] [Quote]
[]Zippy
Strange
Send PM
An Avatar
Posts: 2033
Threads: 147
Mood: Paranoid
Money: £3733.51 (D)
Inc. Tax: 10%
(+ Friend)
Not online within the last half an hour



Ummmmm... It's been known to hit enter and have the res snap on even tho ur monitor is not supposed to handle it. Other than that, ur right. But you gotta have those programs to save the stupid people from getting pissed.

________________
04.03.05 05:19
Post #15
[Hide Sig (11)] [Profile] [Quote]

Post Reply

Jump To:


Your Comments:

Donate to BlameThePixel:
Donate to BTP Via PayPal


[22 Queries, Page Loaded in 0.291144 Seconds]

ShoutMeUp

Xmas Greetings from waka waka waka waka []Unvalidated EmailChristmasRiddle MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! []Spleet Except for Spleet. []TheAbdBoy Always bummin' a brother out. []Spleet Happy New Year everyone! But Spleet. []TheAbdBoy

Word Association

All

-10 Ago-

MiddleEastern []AlphaWolf camel [S]Bloopy toe []TheAbdBoy moose knuckle [S]Bloopy MeatLoaf []Spleet IdDoAnything4Lo ve []AlphaWolf rub n tug []TheAbdBoy tugboat []The Pope rope [S]Bloopy race []TheAbdBoy

-Latest-


Must be logged in to add new words

FictoLeague

You have to be logged in to vote...

Member Stats

Date: 21.11.24.
Members: 4731.
Latest: []Unvalidated Emailsdsakldsaldklasdsdsa
Active:
0 user(s)
1 guest(s)

On chat:
Lots of people

Files: 3330

Bloopy's Site
Get Firefox Get Opera Donate to BTP Via PayPal