mgeorge on 31/7/2008 at 23:57
I recently picked up a Dell 1905FP 19in. LCD monitor and whenever I try to play Stalker it goes through the loading process, prefetching cache, etc, then the comp shuts itself down when it seems as though the games going to start.
I see an "auto adjust" message just before it reboots, so wondering if this has anything to do with it. Never had this problem with my old 17in. CRT.
Any help appreciated.
Athlon 2700+
Gig 2700 Ram
X700 Pro
BEAR on 1/8/2008 at 01:00
Thats an odd issue, cant say that I've ever seen such a thing. Monitors seem to have fairly little interaction with the actual PC for the most part, so they usually do not greatly vary in what they do.
I have a 1905 monitor (which I love btw), but for you're problem I have no idea. Monitors seem to usually either work or not. It works fine in windows and up until it loads? Perhaps some kind of conflict between the monitor and the videocard?
mgeorge on 1/8/2008 at 02:25
Thanks for the response.
Not sure whether it's a conflict w/the card or not. Other games seem OK although Dark Messiah is doing the same thing. Older games seem alright such as Thief, Deus Ex but really wanted to spark up Stalker again.
I called Dell but seeing as I bought the monitor used they are absolutely no help at all. As a matter of fact, a bunch of touchholes.
242 on 1/8/2008 at 09:29
It seems to me that Stalker, as well as DM, is set to some display mode/refresh rate by default that your monitor can't handle.
Try to override 3d resfresh rate via your graphics card's settings. F.e. for ATI it's CCC > Display Options > 3d resfresh rate override
Xenith on 1/8/2008 at 09:37
I receive a lot of those messages in some games and it's almost always because the monitor wants the game to run at a specific resolution. for example, I can't play Stalker on 10248768 because the monitor wants it at 1280*1024. it doesn't shut down my pc or anything but it does black-out and gives me a nice warning message in the middle of the screen.
oh and I remember another thing if you have an nVidia card. LCDs kind of need an option turned on when playing games that can be enabled in the card's control panel. never really had an LCD, but I think it's a scaling option under the display category. I don't know how this works in ATI cards though.
mothra on 1/8/2008 at 11:49
scaling on nvidia cards depend on the driver and model of the card.
for 8800er cards, e.g. up until a certain driver version you COULD set "scaling with correct aspect ratio" so they picture would not get squashed for old 4:3 games but you still have to use the monitor's default resolutions.
stupid LCD. hope they come up with better technology soon. the fixed resolution is the biggest step down from CRT displays.
242 on 1/8/2008 at 12:59
Quote Posted by mothra
stupid LCD. hope they come up with better technology soon. the fixed resolution is the biggest step down from CRT displays.
LCD is a dead-end way because the principle of picture creation itself is unnatural to human eye. LCD won battle with CRT only because people generally tend to choose merchandise in beautiful wrapping, often to the degree that contents aren't even that important, figuratively speaking.
I'm angry that it's not possible to buy new quality CRT monitor (and they were really really cheap!) anymore because stupid LCD trend totally killed CRT production. Why should I like to spend like 5 times more for a monitor that delivers about the same, but still worse, picture quality? There were just excellent aperture grill CRTs from Sony and Nec/Mitsubishi that cost 200-300USD, now LCDs with similar quality cost 700-1000USD. Is it what they call progress?
mothra on 1/8/2008 at 13:13
Quote Posted by 242
LCD is a dead-end way because the principle of picture creation itself is unnatural to human eye. LCD won battle with CRT only because people generally tend to choose merchandise in beautiful wrapping, often to the degree that contents aren't even that important, figuratively speaking.
I'm angry that it's not possible to buy new quality CRT monitor (and they were really really cheap!) anymore because stupid LCD trend totally killed CRT production. Why should I like to spend like 5 times more for a monitor that delivers about the same, but still worse, picture quality ?
aehm, price is about half of an CRT here in europe, don't know where you live, so the main selling point here is space, temperature AND price. Contrast is sometimes superior but B/W seperation, BlackLevel as well as Videonoise are still sub-par.
242 on 1/8/2008 at 13:19
Quote Posted by mothra
aehm, price is about half of an CRT here in europe, don't know where you live, so the main selling point here is space, temperature AND price. Contrast is sometimes superior but B/W seperation, BlackLevel as well as Videonoise are still sub-par.
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There were just excellent aperture grill CRTs from Sony and Nec/Mitsubishi that cost 200-300USD, now LCDs with similar quality cost 700-1000USD. Is it what they call progress?
LCDs with comparable picture quality to that of Sony/NEC/Mitsubishi aperture grill CRTs now cost much more than those CRTs cost 5 years ago.
Matthew on 1/8/2008 at 13:22
Define 'much'. Then factor in inflation.
