What Happened? - Page 2

Rich · #1 August 25th, 2014, 09:57 PM

It wasn't a driver. It was something called asus multi-frame. I'll have to see if I can find the driver later if there even is one. All the controls are on the monitor itself. I'll check but one way or another I'm sure I'll get everything working ok.

Rich · #2 August 25th, 2014, 11:04 PM

This is weird. Apparently there are no drivers for my monitor. I'll try tech support in the morning. In the meantime I'll experiment with the font files. Iirc to affect all the fonts, it takes more than one file so I'll need to fool around with them.

Rich · #3 August 26th, 2014, 06:42 PM

Ok, I talked to asus tech support. The monitor has no driver. It's totally plug & play. The people I talked to at tech support are clueless. I wonder if this is a win8 issue instead of the monitor. A few other older games that I bought from gog now crash. Anyway, I changed two font files and the game is playable at 1920x1080. The game looks and works great at this res with this monitor so all is well.

Mobhack · #4 August 26th, 2014, 07:06 PM

Monitors usually have some sort of "personality" file (forget what) - that tells windows the colour temperature and other relevant stuff. The viewsonic I have definately had an install CD that installed all that stuff. Perhaps its on-board this plug and play Asus?.

As for your older games - if they allow you to select the install directory - put them in say \games\... for the same reason as we now say not to use \program files (windows "managed" files). Then they may start working properly.

Anyway - glad to hear you have it sorted.

Andy

Rich · #5 August 29th, 2014, 07:40 PM

Hi Andy, just a followup. The problem is not the monitor. It's the 8.1 operating system. Out of curiosity I tried a couple of compatibility OSs. The one that seemed to work the best is XPsp2. Everything works in full screen except 1600. For some reason, this brings an error and won't load at all. What's weird though, the legacy resolutions are stretched to cover the full screen. The hexes are flattened a bit but don't bother me playing that way. They're not stretched that much. Anyway, I thought you might be interested in this info and some others with old eyes and win8 might like to try it.

DRG · #6 August 29th, 2014, 09:00 PM

I run 8.1 and it works just fine for me in desktop