june gloom on 23/1/2006 at 12:19
that was your computer's way of protecting you from BF42.
Sturm Jäger on 23/1/2006 at 15:33
Quote Posted by descenterace
The problem is that you have a sucky monitor.
My old 17" TFT did the same thing in Battlefield 1942. It wasn't actually possible for me to play the game because even the menu screen would cause that, and hacking the config files didn't seem to affect anything.
Hardly a reason to say my monitor is "sucky" since this happens only in a game from 1995...
Zanderat on 23/1/2006 at 17:52
Quote Posted by Sturm Jäger
I got ss1 working on my "new" computer for the first time yesterday. For the first time ever I was able to play the game in 640x480 mode with smooth experience in full screen! I was thinking: "It can't get better than this."
Then I found about the possibility of playing it in 800x600, 1024x768 or 1280x1024!! :eek:
I used the ss1hr.exe and started the game and... @#¤$&!!!!:mad:
When I try to use 800x600 the monitor goes black and it reads: "frequency out of range." and if I try to use 1024x768 or higher I get: "DPMS suspend mode."
-Geforce 6600 256Mb
-Viewsonic G90f
-win2000, sp4
Don't listen to that other guy. This is a known problem, that has been fixed. I am at work and don't have the exact link. Read through the earlier posts and you will it.
ToxicFrog on 24/1/2006 at 03:07
As Zanderat said, this is a known issue (although until now we've only seen it on GF4 cards) stemming from nVidia's braindead VGA.SYS.
From the first post:
Quote:
nVidia GeForce 4 users, read this!There is an issue with the nV VESA support for resolutions greater than 640x480. This manifests as the monitor turning itself off or reporting "sync out of range" or "refresh rate out of range" when you attempt to use higher resolutions.
The excellent (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/member.php?u=30488) Infinitron has tracked down a fix for this, which can be found in the links on (
http://www.jonsguides.com/dosgames/settler2.html) this page.
Sturm Jäger on 24/1/2006 at 13:09
How is this fix used?
What ever I do it says "did not apply the patch on yout request."
The Brain on 24/1/2006 at 13:26
Does it ask to install fixed vga.sys?
Sturm Jäger on 24/1/2006 at 14:43
It asks:
"do you want to install the fix? (yes/no)"
If I press Y and then enter it says that:
"did not apply the patch on your request."
There's this announcement that:
"currently supported vga.sys version windows2000 sp3"
I have sp4 is that what's wrong?
Zanderat on 24/1/2006 at 15:19
You have to type in "yes" (no quotes), not just "y".
Sturm Jäger on 24/1/2006 at 16:17
Well I'll be damned. 99.98% of this kind ot things accept y as yes....
Sturm Jäger on 24/1/2006 at 16:30
It works! All who made this possible I salute you. :thumb:
