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look through the pages there doing the tests to see if anything gets upset
at Nvidia's site they have a gaming section where you can see which driver is recommended for for a specific game, maybe ATI have an equivalent, and that game likes an older, or beta driver?

I've just remembered the monitor came with a USB cable as well as the vga I'm using. I assumed I only needed one or the other. I'll have a look see later

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if it's got a usb cable, usually that's just cos the monitor has usb pots so you can use it as a usb hub

So it would seem

I've managed to run Lego Star wars, albeit after interting '-windowed' in the target line. I've got the Crysis 2 benchmark tool running, but it ran in a 4:3 window and seems very low res. Crysis 2 itself doesn't want to know.

Looking at google findings it all points to graphics card/DX problems. I know none of those are a problem as they all ran fine 24 hours ago on my old monitor at 1280x1024. I'm running a ATI HD 5870 which has been running DX11 easily since I got it last year.

Did I just buy a **** monitor?

It's an AOC 2036Sa 20" monitor. Cheap at half the bloody price apparently.

Just popped back into the shop (currys) and had a chat with a nice chap who knew as much as me about these matters, which is refreshing. I'll give it a couple of days' research, then take it back and get a samsung.

If anyone else has the game (Lego HP 5-7) and a widescreen monitor, and the hardware available, can someone tell me if it runs at 1600x900? Normally I'd start the game windowed (see above) and change the resolution from there, but this bugger just isn't letting me

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This item was edited on Sunday, 1st January 2012, 13:18

I didn't think a monitor would cause these sort of errors. A video card going bad or driver issues can definitely cause it though. You could try going back to the previous WHQL see if that helps.


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Tried turning Aero off?

Turning aero off did nowt, sadly.

No idea how to roll back the WHQL, but seeing as every other graphics-intensive game works ok (GTA4, Driver, Portal 2) I don;t think the card's having any obvious problems.

I did just try to start Movies (stunts & special effects), and the error box that came up seemed to infer there wasn't any directx installed at all

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try reinstalling directx then!
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o idea how to roll back the WHQL, but seeing as every other graphics-intensive game works ok (GTA4, Driver, Portal 2) I don;t think the card's having any obvious problems.The thing is, is as I said earlier, different games like different drivers GTA IV on my PC prefers an older nvidia driver, it works with latest, but sometimes when driving I drive in the road rather than on it (most noticable on going up ramps to bridges!)Quote:
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No idea how to roll back the WHQL

uninstall the driver, maybe use driver sweaper or something similar, to make sure it's clean, try rebooting into safe mode and remove the driver, then windows starts and wants to install driver, say no and try one WHQL certified, maybe one that came out just before the game did in case the dev co haven't updated it/patched it to work well with newer drivers.

did you do dxdiag, did that say anything odd? How about event viewer, does that show any odd messages?

This item was edited on Sunday, 1st January 2012, 16:31

Dxdiag came up clean, apart from some audio devices that aren't signed

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Event viewer says nowt as well. I just forced the error and it didn't come up in the applications

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