After hours on Google yeilding no results I thought I would post my problems here, any help is greatly appreciated.
I got a Viewsonic VX2235WM last year, but I haven't tried any games on it yet untill now. I think my problems with Unreal Tournament99 is linked to the monitor as it used to work perfectly on my old CRT but I am at a loss about the rest.
When I load UT99 it starts in windowed mode (at 640 x 480) and when I press Alt+Enter to maximise it, the screen flashes back and it goes back to the windowed game. The only way I can get it to fill the screen is to resize the windowed box. A minor problem I suppose, but a problem nonetheless
I recently got Half Life 2 (classic) and when I try to load it (via Steam), the client says "Preparing to load Half Life 2", then the screen will go black and then it'll go back to my desktop. It does this with or without the DVD in the drive. The status of the game is 100%. This seems a common problem but there has been no conclusive solutions from what I've found.
I also installed Colin Mcrae Rally 3, as with the others, it installed fine, but when I try to run it, the screen goes black and then I get the old XP error message of "Rally_3PC.exe has encountered an error..."
These are the only three games I've tried on my computer (specs in my sig) in a very long time, and none of them functioning properly if at all, I am not sure if they are related or not.
My actions so far have been:
- Install older ATI drivers (7.10) and reinstall my current drivers (7.12)
- Reinstall the games
- Check my monitor drivers
- run the DirectX webupdate from the Microsoft site
- Trying various launch options littered on forums I found via google
- Patching the games to their latest versions
None of these improve or change the situation what so ever.
Any ideas?
Thank you for your time
I got a Viewsonic VX2235WM last year, but I haven't tried any games on it yet untill now. I think my problems with Unreal Tournament99 is linked to the monitor as it used to work perfectly on my old CRT but I am at a loss about the rest.
When I load UT99 it starts in windowed mode (at 640 x 480) and when I press Alt+Enter to maximise it, the screen flashes back and it goes back to the windowed game. The only way I can get it to fill the screen is to resize the windowed box. A minor problem I suppose, but a problem nonetheless
I recently got Half Life 2 (classic) and when I try to load it (via Steam), the client says "Preparing to load Half Life 2", then the screen will go black and then it'll go back to my desktop. It does this with or without the DVD in the drive. The status of the game is 100%. This seems a common problem but there has been no conclusive solutions from what I've found.
I also installed Colin Mcrae Rally 3, as with the others, it installed fine, but when I try to run it, the screen goes black and then I get the old XP error message of "Rally_3PC.exe has encountered an error..."
These are the only three games I've tried on my computer (specs in my sig) in a very long time, and none of them functioning properly if at all, I am not sure if they are related or not.
My actions so far have been:
- Install older ATI drivers (7.10) and reinstall my current drivers (7.12)
- Reinstall the games
- Check my monitor drivers
- run the DirectX webupdate from the Microsoft site
- Trying various launch options littered on forums I found via google
- Patching the games to their latest versions
None of these improve or change the situation what so ever.
Any ideas?
Thank you for your time
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