Re: screen dispaly

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Charlie wrote:
Hello all - I'm using a P4 machine with XP home, about 2 years old. Suddenly, my son's PC games are displaying incorrectly. Activision's "Rome Total War" (with all the patches) and THQ's "Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War - Winter Assualt" especially, but he tells me others are as well. The issue seems to be that now the image looks as if it would need a screen about 30" wide to display in full. To the best of my knowledge neither he nor I have adjusted anything. No other image displays are affected.

I've tried resetting "options" within the games to no avail. All I recall doing recently is installing "talk it, type it" and "easy clean". The former because I have an old wartime diary I want to transcribe and the latetr because I was silly...I already have Advanced Uninstaller Pro 2005 and its fine. I have since uninstalled both TITI and EC and utilised "system restore" to go back to an earlier date but also to no avail.

I have also noticed that the system as a whole is running slowly. I have a broadband 2Mb connection and recently installing a new Nvidia driver update - thinking this may be the case of the display issues - and the 40Mb download was telling me it was going to take over an hour !

I have run a full scan on Trend Micro PC-Cillin 14, that told me I was clean; a Spybot SD1.4 check said no threats and Ad-Aware SE Personal says I'm clean as well.

Any thoughts ?

All comments gratefully received - my son has to do his homework instead, now !!

Charlie Somerset

Some video cards have independent vertical refresh rates and screen size settings for each resolution setting. Those settings might have been corrupted somehow. Size and vertical refresh settings are normally accessible through the advanced display settings available through the control panel or right clicking the desktop. Specific details of the procedure vary, as that code is produced by your video card (or motherboard) manufacturer OR the manufacturer of the Graphics Processor chip it uses.

Check the software that came with you computer to see if it includes a utility to monitor you CPU temperature and clock speed. Many manufacturers also allow consumers to download such software from their web sites. There's SOME chance your motherboard is throttling down you CPU to keep its temperature in control. Notebook/laptop computers often have CPU speed throttle functions associated with battery power consumption too.
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