- Sep 4, 2003
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IF you look at my GameRig specs, you'll see I'm running a 19" NEC which happens to be a CRT. I still not have not been able to purchase a nice LCD since building this game rig, but soon will.
In the mean time I run the desktop at 1024x768, and have noticed I can game at 1600X1200. The other day, when playing Oblivion, with the latest drivers from XG, the XTreme-G 84.43.v2. I noticed some electrical lines running horizontal across the screen.
Here's screeshot actually of "My Computer" with the lines that display below the devices, and I put a circle around the right side where it is lighter in color to see. This is how I'd see this line, something light in color like this appearing.
http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen9xj.jpg
Just a very light color line like this is the best way I can show it and describe it. I know something like this tends to be with the monitor, or video cards, or even the power of the PSU.
With my PSU how can I check if it's putting out ok?
Well with the previous drivers I didn't notice this, so I just assumed the drivers and uninstalled them, but I still noticed this again with different drivers this time.
Then today trying to play America's Army, I noticed this happening a few times and then one big streak appearing across the screen. So I removed these drivers, then this time I installed the Nvidia Beta drivers 84.43, but I have not tried them out yet gaming.
What I wanted to know, running the desktop at 1024x768, then gaming at 1600x1200, might it strain the monitor and cause it to do this? And I should just game at 1024x768, same as the desktop settings?
THANKS
In the mean time I run the desktop at 1024x768, and have noticed I can game at 1600X1200. The other day, when playing Oblivion, with the latest drivers from XG, the XTreme-G 84.43.v2. I noticed some electrical lines running horizontal across the screen.
Here's screeshot actually of "My Computer" with the lines that display below the devices, and I put a circle around the right side where it is lighter in color to see. This is how I'd see this line, something light in color like this appearing.
http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen9xj.jpg
Just a very light color line like this is the best way I can show it and describe it. I know something like this tends to be with the monitor, or video cards, or even the power of the PSU.
With my PSU how can I check if it's putting out ok?
Well with the previous drivers I didn't notice this, so I just assumed the drivers and uninstalled them, but I still noticed this again with different drivers this time.
Then today trying to play America's Army, I noticed this happening a few times and then one big streak appearing across the screen. So I removed these drivers, then this time I installed the Nvidia Beta drivers 84.43, but I have not tried them out yet gaming.
What I wanted to know, running the desktop at 1024x768, then gaming at 1600x1200, might it strain the monitor and cause it to do this? And I should just game at 1024x768, same as the desktop settings?
THANKS