I post this issue in General HW, but thought I might get some technical help/opinions this forum. (I hope this is OK. I am bit of a newbie and open to any advice. All the options in the video settings, it would seem something might be overlooked technically. (Where is that magic button?)
PS Has anyone got an SLI rig with a 23" widescreen actually to work? I am seeing horror stories in the forums. (Maybe you never see the good stuff).
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I need some input and emotional support. Sorry for a little story, but my 7 grand dream machine is causing nothing but troubles. Had the machine 1 hour, and it totally died. No power at all. No matter how much resetting, pounding, could bring it back to life. RMAd back to Velocity Micro. They rebuilt the system got it running. They installed Doom 3 and tested on a 17" or 18" monitor. (1280X1024).
Received the systems, no shutdowns, but no support for running games full screen. The problems lies in that I have 23" monitor. When right clicking on the display, the system recognizes the Cinema HD Display and supports the native resolution of 1920 x 1200. Desktop and Office Apps run fine. This is with SLI enabled and with the 66.93 drivers.
However, when I look at the resolution slider, it only has very limited resolution options, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1920 x 1200. When I connect the diplay to even my old shuttle with ATI 9700 AIW, I get the all the resolutions options including 1600 x 1200, 1152 x 864, etc.
When I start DOW 40K or Doom 3, the screen is unviewable. I had to connect on old 18 LCD to the system, decipher the screen garbage, set the game to the highest setting it could support, reconnect the cinema display, again was just barely able to decipher the menu options to get the game settings to the 1600 x 1200 setting. Restart the game, Doom 3 fills the screen from top to bottom, but fills the screen from the left and appears to stop at the horizontal 1600 pixel. Not in a window, just stops. Hence, you can still see the time and task bar icons. (This process doesn't work for DOW) I have called EVGA support and Vel Micro support and no ones has even tested on a 23" monitor and don't even have one in the lab. When I ask about possible settings for interpolation, the tech didn't know what it meant.
I have a Dell XPS with a X800XT, on loan, runs everything fine. Not one problem with any game on the 23" monitor. Doom 3, DOW, HL2, ect., all fill the screen and run at 1600 x 1200.
Anybody else having problems with SLI and Geoforce 6800 Ultras? Any suggestions? Am I crazy to ask Velocity Micro to give a full refund?
PS Has anyone got an SLI rig with a 23" widescreen actually to work? I am seeing horror stories in the forums. (Maybe you never see the good stuff).
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I need some input and emotional support. Sorry for a little story, but my 7 grand dream machine is causing nothing but troubles. Had the machine 1 hour, and it totally died. No power at all. No matter how much resetting, pounding, could bring it back to life. RMAd back to Velocity Micro. They rebuilt the system got it running. They installed Doom 3 and tested on a 17" or 18" monitor. (1280X1024).
Received the systems, no shutdowns, but no support for running games full screen. The problems lies in that I have 23" monitor. When right clicking on the display, the system recognizes the Cinema HD Display and supports the native resolution of 1920 x 1200. Desktop and Office Apps run fine. This is with SLI enabled and with the 66.93 drivers.
However, when I look at the resolution slider, it only has very limited resolution options, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1920 x 1200. When I connect the diplay to even my old shuttle with ATI 9700 AIW, I get the all the resolutions options including 1600 x 1200, 1152 x 864, etc.
When I start DOW 40K or Doom 3, the screen is unviewable. I had to connect on old 18 LCD to the system, decipher the screen garbage, set the game to the highest setting it could support, reconnect the cinema display, again was just barely able to decipher the menu options to get the game settings to the 1600 x 1200 setting. Restart the game, Doom 3 fills the screen from top to bottom, but fills the screen from the left and appears to stop at the horizontal 1600 pixel. Not in a window, just stops. Hence, you can still see the time and task bar icons. (This process doesn't work for DOW) I have called EVGA support and Vel Micro support and no ones has even tested on a 23" monitor and don't even have one in the lab. When I ask about possible settings for interpolation, the tech didn't know what it meant.
I have a Dell XPS with a X800XT, on loan, runs everything fine. Not one problem with any game on the 23" monitor. Doom 3, DOW, HL2, ect., all fill the screen and run at 1600 x 1200.
Anybody else having problems with SLI and Geoforce 6800 Ultras? Any suggestions? Am I crazy to ask Velocity Micro to give a full refund?
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