A lot of my games stopped working because I got a new monitor with a much larger resolution than my old one. A lot of the games won’t but up, and Crysis, one of the ones that will boot up, doesn’t have 1920x1080 resolution and won’t work on anything else, windowed or not.
Suggestions?
New Graphics card?
I’ve got a 9800gtx. It should be able to support my monitor right? Some games do work full res like the L4D2 demo and Deadspace.
Also I haven’t tried reinstalling the games yet because that will be a massive hassle and that is the next thing I’m gonna do, I was just going here in case there’s an easier way to do this.
When you say the games don’t work do they crash or something?
and when you say crysis doesn’t have that resolution, do you mean that it doesn’t appear in the list of resolutions?
I would start with reinstalling the GPU drivers.
Make sure to let us know what scaling settings are in the nvidia control panel.
failing that just make a autoconfig and have it manually set the resolution for crysis.
https://widescreengamingforum.com
Go there, and it’ll tell you how to manually change most games to any resolution you want, and should fix them for you.
(do a wiki search for the title of your game)
The other thing to check is that you have the correct monitor drivers installed - you may need to take a swing past WindowsUpdate or similar.
The GPU can’t be expected to get it right if the monitor is not able to tell it what it can do.
They usually get through one or two logos then give me an engine error and crash. Yes, Crysis Warhead doesn’t have my screen’s resolution on the list.
All try all the things listed here and come back when I’m done.
EDIT: tried the site and it didn’t have instructions for Crysis Warhead or Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (the two broken games I am most interested in fixing). Also, I found a monitor driver disk that I had never noticed before and ran it, but it told me the driver required Vista. I looked online for the monitor’s driver (iH252) and couldn’t come up with anything.
Finally, I don’t know how to make an autoconfig and by scaling settings do you mean if it’s set to 1920x1080 in the Nvidia control panel? I just checked that and it is.
Oh, that doesn’t sound at all like a monitor problem to me, actually.
Done this before, but will do again. Last time it fucked up my computer and took me hours to make things work, lets hope it actually works this time.
EDIT: decided to test NFS Shift and realized it was set to my old monitor’s resolution so I set it to mine and now it keeps starting up in a window even though I set it to fullscreen and it crashes like the other games right after showing me a few logos.
I will update my Nvidia drivers, but not now, maybe this weekend, I don’t feel like dealing with a fried computer atm.
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