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GPL doesn't work with new monitor - Sony 20SE

4 posts by 3 people · 13 Jun 2002 15:42 UTC - 14 Jun 2002 09:32 UTC

Tony L 13 Jun 2002 15:42 UTC#115176

Have upgraded to a bigger monitor but GPL is unusable!! Graphics squashed into half of the available space and 8 colour graphics. It's not possible to negotiate through menu's to test in car view. Monitor is a few years old - works fine for everything else including Papy's Nascar2002 demo. Graphics card is GF2 GTS and monitor equiv of Sony multiscan 20SE (Sun gdm20e20) Any help appreciated... Tony

Andi Cole 13 Jun 2002 16:05 UTC↳ reply to Tony L #115182

The replacement monitor probably needs setting to the resolution and frequency being output by your vid card. There should be some adjustment controls on the monitor to resize the image correctly on the screen. In most monitors this setting is held for each resolution and/or frequency so you may have to set it several times for the different resolutions our games use. Andi. "Tony L" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:r33O8.296995$[email hidden]... > Have upgraded to a bigger monitor but GPL is unusable!! Graphics squashed > into half of the available space and 8 colour graphics. It's not possibleto > negotiate through menu's to test in car view. > > Monitor is a few years old - works fine for everything else includingPapy's

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> Nascar2002 demo. Graphics card is GF2 GTS and monitor equiv of Sony > multiscan 20SE (Sun gdm20e20) > > Any help appreciated... > Tony > > >

David Buttery 14 Jun 2002 00:08 UTC↳ reply to Tony L #115058

"Tony L" <[email hidden]> wrote on 13 Jun 2002: > Have upgraded to a bigger monitor but GPL is unusable!! Graphics > squashed into half of the available space and 8 colour graphics. > It's not possible to negotiate through menu's to test in car view.<snip> Are you running GPL in a window? On my PC, that also happens (with weird purply effects) unless I'm in 16-bit colour. Full-screen, everything's fine. -- England 1 Argentina 0! Yyyyeeeessssss! :-D The GPL Scrapyard: http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard

Tony L 14 Jun 2002 09:32 UTC↳ reply to David Buttery #115009

"David Buttery" wrote ...

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> "Tony L" wrote on 13 Jun 2002: > > > Have upgraded to a bigger monitor but GPL is unusable!! Graphics > > squashed into half of the available space and 8 colour graphics. > > It's not possible to negotiate through menu's to test in car view. > <snip> > > Are you running GPL in a window? On my PC, that also happens (with > weird purply effects) unless I'm in 16-bit colour. Full-screen, > everything's fine.

Thanks a lot David and Andi. Went to 16bit colour and bingo. Had me worried for a while there tho... Cheers tony