D'oh! Just updated video drivers... - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Jeff · 12-14-2004, 06:32 PM

...and now I've got a fuzzy picture. The words and shit look fuzzy. I even tried rolling back the drivers but nothing works.

Planar 17" LCD 16:9
P4 2.0
Radeon 9500 Pro
XP Home

Coppertop · 12-14-2004, 06:42 PM

You try squinting? In all seriousness, I had trouble with my old Radeon 9700 All in Wonder. Ultimately I got a new card (9800). Drivers didn't help my issue at all. You try uninstalling all video drivers and then reinstalling them? You have your original drivers disc?

Jeff · 12-14-2004, 06:46 PM

Fixed

Hit auto-adjust on the monitor. Thanks though

littlebighead · 12-15-2004, 05:41 AM

That's one problem with analog LCDs -- sometimes the adjustment doesn't always work, or it gets out of sync. One trick that I've used is this: create a 2 x 1 horizontal bitmap of two pixels, one white, one black. Set that as your desktop background and tile it. You'll see a bunch of very fine white and black lines. If you see fuzzy gray, then adjust the horizontal synch until they become distinct black and white lines. I use that to manually sync my LCDs sometimes. For some reason, my Dell LCD has a problem synching with my old GeForce, so I have to employ this trick.

Coppertop · 12-15-2004, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff

Fixed

Hit auto-adjust on the monitor. Thanks though

Doh! Don't you just hate it when you get all technical trying to fix a problem and it's something simple like that? Man, one time I had a hell of a time trying to figure out why my HD wasn't functioning properly. Later I realized I had failed to plug it back in after moving it. Sigh.

shadowalker · 12-15-2004, 11:07 AM

Littlebighead I did that once in ph7 and set up my screen thay way, once i was done i changed from tile to strech and it make a nice white fade to black background. very cool.

12-14-2004, 06:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jeff And we'll all float on ok... Location: Iowa City	D'oh! Just updated video drivers... ...and now I've got a fuzzy picture. The words and shit look fuzzy. I even tried rolling back the drivers but nothing works. Planar 17" LCD 16:9 P4 2.0 Radeon 9500 Pro XP Home __________________ For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. --Charles Bukowski

12-14-2004, 06:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
Jeff And we'll all float on ok... Location: Iowa City	Fixed Hit auto-adjust on the monitor. Thanks though __________________ For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. --Charles Bukowski

12-15-2004, 11:07 AM	#6 (permalink)
shadowalker Psycho Location: Firefox yourself and change the world!	Littlebighead I did that once in ph7 and set up my screen thay way, once i was done i changed from tile to strech and it make a nice white fade to black background. very cool. __________________ I'll make ya famous!

12-14-2004, 06:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
Coppertop Getting Medieval on your ass Location: 13th century Europe	You try squinting? In all seriousness, I had trouble with my old Radeon 9700 All in Wonder. Ultimately I got a new card (9800). Drivers didn't help my issue at all. You try uninstalling all video drivers and then reinstalling them? You have your original drivers disc?

12-15-2004, 05:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
littlebighead Upright Location: Berkeley, CA	That's one problem with analog LCDs -- sometimes the adjustment doesn't always work, or it gets out of sync. One trick that I've used is this: create a 2 x 1 horizontal bitmap of two pixels, one white, one black. Set that as your desktop background and tile it. You'll see a bunch of very fine white and black lines. If you see fuzzy gray, then adjust the horizontal synch until they become distinct black and white lines. I use that to manually sync my LCDs sometimes. For some reason, my Dell LCD has a problem synching with my old GeForce, so I have to employ this trick.