Can no longer run games at 1920x1200??

[trOver]

I have been playing all of my games at 1920x1200 for the last ~6 months, and now when I installed gears of war and tried to play it at that resolution, it just becomes unplayable. (<1 fps)

I kicked it down to 1440x900, and it played fine.

Just to be sure it wasn't only that game, I tried it with UT3, and the same thing happened. I have been playing UT3 at that res for a while now, and it used to run great. What happened?

No recent hardware changes, nor software changes. Rig in sig.

Thanks!

 

[Nightmare225]

Those are both UE3 games.

Have you tried games with other engines to see if something with the engine is giving your card or its drivers trouble?

 

[SickBeast]

You need to run GOW at medium textures with the 320mb card.

 

[Syntax Error]

It may be the VRAM that's holding you back at this point, as SickBeast mentioned.

 

[BFG10K]

He said UT3 was previously running fine at that resolution so obviously something?s changed in his system.

If you haven't installed anything new then check your control panel, especially your AA settings.

 

[trOver]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
He said UT3 was previously running fine at that resolution so obviously something?s changed in his system.

If you haven't installed anything new then check your control panel, especially your AA settings.

Ill try this, thanks

 

[trOver]

Originally posted by: trOver

Originally posted by: BFG10K
He said UT3 was previously running fine at that resolution so obviously something?s changed in his system.

If you haven't installed anything new then check your control panel, especially your AA settings.

Ill try this, thanks

Problem was I had selected "use these settings" in my nvidia control panel, instead of "let the 3D application decide". This fixed the problem right up.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
He said UT3 was previously running fine at that resolution so obviously something?s changed in his system.

If you haven't installed anything new then check your control panel, especially your AA settings.

They aren't same games though although same engine. GOW might have bigger textures.

 

[BFG10K]

They aren't same games though although same engine. GOW might have bigger textures.

I'm not sure you get what his issue was.

UT3 was running fine for him at 1920x1200, then it turned into a slideshow in the same game.

We now know the cause was control panel settings.