Farcry 2: Unsupported video signal, wtf?

Welcome to the wonderfull world of Far Cry 2.

At least you didn't pay launch price.

It may just be a case of editing a config file to your TV's resolution.

...\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 2\GamerProfile.xml

Change, ResolutionX="800" ResolutionY="600", to the resolution of the TV.


If not try looking on the ubisoft far cry 2 forums:

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/cfrm/f/34210466

It should be the same.

Makes me wonder why people bother using HDTV's in place of a good monitor.... TV for watching TV crap. Gaming needs a decent monitor.

I wonder how many people dont understand that a HDTV quite possibly has a lower resolution than a 20/22" lcd monitor ?

well, it's the only thing closest to a monitor, since i'm at college and i only have the LCD TV, and it's better than nothing. I know they are advertised as "HD", but mine is the 720p ones, hence 1280x768. Or is it 1380x768? i'm not sure.

But, come on, it's not like it's 640x480, it's still pretty detailed to me when i play Crysis.

Does it have the 1280x720 offering? That is 720p true blue.

hey, The TV was better than nothing, i still got a really good computer within my budget, and a monitor is out of the consideration.

and I did try 1280x720, and there's this weird black bar to the left, but when set to 768, it fits the screen.

yea, but how do you tell which is closer to the native resolution of the TV? any tips, like, the way the screen looks, smoothness, etc.

oh i see... 1366x768 then... hey. what happens if you try to go 1900x1200 on an 720p tv? will it look all weird?

how exactly am i wasting a good GPU? i mean, does that resolution look like crap to you or what?
On the other hand, i get higher FPS with lower resolutions anyway, but not TOO low, like shitty 800x600 territory. It's gonna be a balance of resolution and FPS, and 720p still looks pretty detailed to me. What can you get with 2560x1600 resolutions, anyway, some guy's head 50 miles away? Not worth the drastic drop in FPS for me.

hmm, i see... i paid $190 for that card, like i said before, which is almost the same price as some of the Black Edition 9800GTX+s, so, why not? it's a futureproofing thing.

It was a good buy.

Better to buy better componants over a longer period of time then weaker ones all at once.

Even at those resolutions a GTX260 216 will be quite a way above a 9800GT especially with antialiasing and will overclock better too.

I recently went through a similar situation. I purchased a 32" AOC 720p HDTV to use as a computer monitor. And yes, I am and was well aware that it is a much lower resolution than a good monitor. However, this TV is not only used for gaming, but also for watching downloaded movies. I couldn't turn the thing down for $400. The price of an actual monitor of the same size would be astronomical.

Anyway, I have found that the type of connection you are using plays a very important role. I started out using HDMI, so I had to set everything to 1280 x 720. Later I switched to VGA and guess what, I got "unsupported video signal" with every single game that I had set to 1280 x 720. So I had to hook up to an old monitor and set all my games to 1024 x 768 then hook back up to the TV. It turns out that the native resolution for the TV is, in fact, 1360 x 768. So that is the resolution I had to use. I have since went back to HDMI and had to switch everything back to 720p.

So to sum it up, it all greatly depends on your connection type. VGA will only do certain resolutions and HDMI will only do certain resolutions. And to answer another question you had, yes you can do 1920 x 1080 on your HDTV if you are using HDMI. However, it will be downconverted to 720p. Its the exact same principle as if you were watching a blu-ray on a 720p TV - though you are sending out a 1080p resolution, 720p is what will actually be displayed. And the same goes for any other resolution over 1280 x 720. Even the native resolution of 1360 x 768 will be downconverted due to the HDMI cable's standards. So your best bet if your using HDMI is to set your games to 1280 x 720 so as to not waste processing power and then crank the AA up in lieu of higher resolution.

wait a minute again...

Left 4 dead is fine with the "windowed" solution, but Farcry 2 won't budge...

is there a way to set "windowed" somewhere in the config files?

Good to hear.

But yeah, the game does suck.