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Article #12640x480 screen dark and small
From: Frederick J. Barnett Jr.
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:00
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I just had installed a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 card with 16megs memory. I have a problem with it though. When I try my games, the screen goes much darker, and it only shows a much smaller box instead of the full screen. My display setting is at 1024x768, but it does this even with a lower setting. In fact, going all the way down to 640x480 it does it even without a game running, so it appears to be something wrong with just that setting. My Deer Hunter 3 Gold does it on the menu screens, but once the game portion starts, it goes back to normal, full screen mode with no problems. Exiting back to the menu produces the small dark screen again. It was also doing this in Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter 2, but when I switched from "full screen" to "windowed," that was perfect, except of course it wasn't full screen, and wouldn't maximize. Can anyone help? My computer is a Compaq Presario 8772 with 48MB RAM, 200Mhz MMX, and a 1525 monitor. I have disabled the S3 chip in CMOS, and in the Windows Hardware Profile. And DirectX 7.0 is installed, along with the latest 3dfx drivers (but not the beta version). Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/ fred@eatel.net HTML Writers Guild Governing Board Member http://www.hwg.org/ The Baton Rouge Astronomical Society http://www.eatel.net/~fred/bras/bras.html The BREC, LSU, BRAS Highland Road Park Observatory http://www.phys.lsu.edu/observatory/ Secretary: International Association of Pyrographic Artists http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4029/flambe.html "Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone
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