Video problems ...please help!

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Daniel

Hi,

I hope you can help a most frustrated system builder ....

When I reinstalled some games on my newly formatted winxp, Battlefield
Vietnam and BF 1942, I noticed that when I start each game, from the EA
logo, at the beginning, to the intro
screens, the whole picture is stretched and a good half of the picture
is cut completely, missing. The screen is stretched from left to right
and the right half is completely missing / cut. I tried messing with
the front monitor panel but no use .... Amazing, even though the right
half seems to be "chopped off", my mouse pointer travels far into the
right, far beyond my screen .... so I presume the whole pict is there
but it's just cut off and stretched ....... What could be wrong ?

Help would be appreciated! Thanks!!
 
Daniel said:
Hi,

I hope you can help a most frustrated system builder ....

When I reinstalled some games on my newly formatted winxp, Battlefield
Vietnam and BF 1942, I noticed that when I start each game, from the EA
logo, at the beginning, to the intro
screens, the whole picture is stretched and a good half of the picture
is cut completely, missing. The screen is stretched from left to right
and the right half is completely missing / cut. I tried messing with
the front monitor panel but no use .... Amazing, even though the right
half seems to be "chopped off", my mouse pointer travels far into the
right, far beyond my screen .... so I presume the whole pict is there
but it's just cut off and stretched ....... What could be wrong ?

Help would be appreciated! Thanks!!
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What do you have the 'Display Settings', set at?
 
Christopher said:
What do you have the 'Display Settings', set at?
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My LCD monitor settings are set at its maximum which is 1280 x 1024 and
all is well, except when I open the games. I tried to change the
settings (in game) but no effect takes place.
 
Daniel said:
Christopher Range wrote:




My LCD monitor settings are set at its maximum which is 1280 x 1024 and all is well, except when I open the games. I tried to change the
settings (in game) but no effect takes place.
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What are the recommended settings of the games?
 
Christopher said:
What are the recommended settings of the games?
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All fixed now. I had to do a clean winxp reinstall and for some
unexplained reason, all is good now. Probably software and / or drivers
related but since I installed the same thing, I'm still puzzled...
Thanks.
 
An overlay driver is well....Let's first discuss what is an overlay?

An overlay is basically a hardware system that replaces all pixels on
the screen/in framebuffer with their relative pixel counterparts from
a video stream, for example you have a 1024x768 screen, and a video
that's 1024x768, but let's just say you only want parts of the video
to show through, or you want acelerated processing, then you would
use an OVERLAY in your program...Basically the software specifies a
"Magic Colour" value to your video card, then creates an
area (or several) on the screen that is/are flood filled with this
(magic colour), now when the hardware hits a pixel of (magic color)
it looks up what is the pixel colour of that pixel in the VIDEO
stream and copies that pixel onto the screen, so if we look at pixel
x655, y324 it will not be of magic colour anymore once video stream
has started it will be the equivelent colour of pixel x655, y324 in
the video...

Now the concept of an overlay driver should be self explanitory...

Overlays are used everywhere, in almost every game with a cutscene,
anything with a video pretty much uses overlays now
 
Daniel said:
All fixed now. I had to do a clean winxp reinstall and for some
unexplained reason, all is good now. Probably software and / or drivers
related but since I installed the same thing, I'm still puzzled...
Thanks.
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more likely you had a dual monitor card? and the second was enabled
 
Mitochondrion said:
An overlay driver is well....Let's first discuss what is an overlay?

An overlay is basically a hardware system that replaces all pixels on
the screen/in framebuffer with their relative pixel counterparts from
a video stream, for example you have a 1024x768 screen, and a video
that's 1024x768, but let's just say you only want parts of the video
to show through, or you want acelerated processing, then you would
use an OVERLAY in your program...Basically the software specifies a
"Magic Colour" value to your video card, then creates an
area (or several) on the screen that is/are flood filled with this
(magic colour), now when the hardware hits a pixel of (magic color)
it looks up what is the pixel colour of that pixel in the VIDEO
stream and copies that pixel onto the screen, so if we look at pixel
x655, y324 it will not be of magic colour anymore once video stream
has started it will be the equivelent colour of pixel x655, y324 in
the video...

Now the concept of an overlay driver should be self explanitory...

Overlays are used everywhere, in almost every game with a cutscene,
anything with a video pretty much uses overlays now
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Thank you for your most detailed and informative reply.
 
JAD said:
more likely you had a dual monitor card? and the second was enabled
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I think you may have a point here. I completely forgot that I briefly
installed and then uninstalled a graphics card and in its place
installed another one. The first one only supported dual monitor and I
may have had it enabled but then when I switched cards something didn't
work right.
 
Yes now that you mention it: you should make sure to Uninstall
Completely any device drivers for devices that you are
removing/swapping before you remove them (easier since it's still in
device manager), will save you alot of headaches
 
Mitochondrion said:
Yes now that you mention it: you should make sure to Uninstall
Completely any device drivers for devices that you are
removing/swapping before you remove them (easier since it's still in
device manager), will save you alot of headaches
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Thanks, I'll remember that. Good advice. :)
 
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