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pope523   06-07-2008 at 07:46:20 PM

I got a new monitor, a used Viewsonic VA720-2 LCD. After connecting it to my PC, installing the drivers and making sure that ATI's Catalyst Control Center (My video card is an ATI HD 3650) correctly identified the display I have found that I can't launch Counter-Strike or Battlefield 1942 any longer. I get a dark, blank screen and can hear the sound from the game. I alt-tab back to Windows and kill the process in the Task Manager.

I found out that if I override the video settings, I can get Counter-Strike to launch in any mode but OpenGL, but they all look awful. So there appears to be some problem between my new display and OpenGL.

What can I do to make OpenGL and my new monitor work together?

EDIT: I'm running Vista Home Premium

Thanks!

Joe


Message edited by pope523 on 06-07-2008 at 07:49:14 PM
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MegaGamer3   06-08-2008 at 05:17:31 AM
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The monitor probably has nothing to do with it, it's the drivers you used with the, most likely, plug n' play monitor that is causing the problems. Try uninstalling those, and see if that fixes your problems

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pope523   06-08-2008 at 05:52:53 AM
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MegaGamer3 wrote :

The monitor probably has nothing to do with it, it's the drivers you used with the, most likely, plug n' play monitor that is causing the problems. Try uninstalling those, and see if that fixes your problems




I uninstalled the driver, Device Manager now shows "Generic PnP Display", rebooted. Still same problem.

Joe

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Paris Lee   06-08-2008 at 07:18:59 AM
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may be ghost your system is deserved to try

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terror112   06-08-2008 at 08:11:43 AM
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reinstall the drivers

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