3D (games) not working after installing new monitor. This problem has me baffled. =/

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I have an All In Wonder Radeon 9600. I just installed a Viewsonic Viewpanel VG151 LCD monitor to replace my previous Samsung Syncmaster 955DF CRT. I have the latest drivers for both video card and monitor.

When I try to play most 3D games, such as need for speed underground or NHL2004, my computer crashes to desktop upon trying to start a game or race. In Splinter Cell the display is completely screwed up, unviewable, unless I put on the thermal vision goggles, which I believe uses pixel shaders rather than polygons? The ATI demos didn't work yesterday, but they do today, I'm not sure whether or not it's because I reinstalled the display drivers. NHL2004 only works if I have anisotropic filtering off.

Today I reinstalled the Cat 4.2 display drivers by uninstalling, using driver cleaner, and reinstalling, and it didn't make a difference other than making the ATI demos work. I didn't try the ATI demos today before reinstalling, however, so I'm not sure if that's why.

Does anyone have any solutions/ideas to this extremely strange problem? Thanks

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Try your old monitor and see if that works.

That is bizarre.

- M4H

 

[rbV5]

Do you have your games set at some resolution your LCD doesn't support? Does sound pretty odd.

 

[LokiX]

i'm a little green so no bashing, but have you gone into safe mode & into device manager to see if you have multiple monitors installed? i have seen a comp do weird things when device manager has to many monitors to choose from.

 

[BFG10K]

Did you use a refresh forcing utility like Refresh Force, PowerStrip or your driver control panel? If so you'll need to reload it again with the correct value(s).