FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELP ME!!

[Finity]

i cannot change my RESOLUTION!! AHHHHHH
im stuck at 640x480 on my 21" monitor with my voodoo5

someone kill me
to top it off, none of the video card's functionality is..er..functional

whenever i try to run a game or something i get a 3dfx/glide/opengl/directx error

and yes, i have reinstalled the drivers
like millions of times

every time i try to change the res it says it cannot change the res and to check my display properties in the device manager

any ideas?

[Alien]

Yeah, one. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif

This would work better in the Tech forum. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/wink.gif

...moving...

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[Diesel]

What OS?
Is it possible that you're not loading the wrong drivers?
A couple of things to check:
That you have the correct monitor set in the Display properties.
That you have the right driver installed.

I'm apt to think that it's a driver issue because you can't set the resolution above VGA, AND you're having the issue with 3D games.


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[WaterB]

did you remove the old drivers before reinstalling the old ones?

[JHowse]

Some things to check:

Open the system properties in the control panel and look at the device manager tab...any conflicts?

Another thing to try is to remove every card from your computer except your video card and see if that fixes the problem. If it does, your video card has a resource conflict with another card in the system.

Other possibilities:

Stupid one to suggest..but incorrect drivers.
Virus.
Video card could be bad.

If it is any of these last three, the procedure above should tell you that.

Good luck.

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[Invisible Gaze]

We had that problem with Win2000 as well...that's what you're on right?
Anyhow, 3dfx had a newer glide driver we installed...and presto.

[Finity]

no no no
you are all wrong http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif

thanx for the advice tho

i KNEW it would be something stupid
cause i tried all of the logical things and this was SO ILLOGICAL

it turns out

that if you have NETMEETING running in the background, you cant DO ANYTHING reguarding your display card because it needs to preserve its settings for video chat

i noticed when netmeeting was open, i couldnt open any game of anysort that involved the video card or 3dfx and i couldnt change my resolution or the color

but ever since i closed netmeeting running in the background, everything was fixed

NETMEETING IS THE DEVIL JUST REMEMBER THAT!
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