GPL video config

I am suffering a bout of self-inflicted video problems with GPL (and a GeForce 3 card). Having done a bit of tweaking of the video card settings, I am now stuck with menu screens in GPL that start out OK but which get more and more blurry as I look at them. Putting the settings back to what I remember as being their original values doesn't help. Short of removing the video drivers and running the denonator remover program and then re-installing the drivers again, does anyone have a checklist of video settings that work with GPL that they'd be willing to share. The in-car video is fine, but those blurred menus are driving me nuts! TIA, -- Darryl

"Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:l2SZ9.3121$[email hidden]...

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> I am suffering a bout of self-inflicted video problems with GPL (and > a GeForce 3 card). Having done a bit of tweaking of the video card > settings, I am now stuck with menu screens in GPL that start out OK > but which get more and more blurry as I look at them. Putting the > settings back to what I remember as being their original values > doesn't help. > > Short of removing the video drivers and running the denonator remover > program and then re-installing the drivers again, does anyone have a > checklist of video settings that work with GPL that they'd be willing > to share. > > The in-car video is fine, but those blurred menus are driving me > nuts!

AA causes the menu screen corruption. Malc.

Malc wrote in news:8ESZ9.4473$9u5.320131@wards:

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> "Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:l2SZ9.3121$[email hidden]... >> I am suffering a bout of self-inflicted video problems with GPL >> (and a GeForce 3 card). Having done a bit of tweaking of the >> video card settings, I am now stuck with menu screens in GPL that >> start out OK but which get more and more blurry as I look at >> them. Putting the settings back to what I remember as being their >> original values doesn't help. >> >> Short of removing the video drivers and running the denonator >> remover program and then re-installing the drivers again, does >> anyone have a checklist of video settings that work with GPL that >> they'd be willing to share. >> >> The in-car video is fine, but those blurred menus are driving me >> nuts! > > AA causes the menu screen corruption. > > Malc. >

Yes! That solved it. Thanks a lot! -- Darryl

"Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ghUZ9.3198$[email hidden]...

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> Malc wrote in news:8ESZ9.4473$9u5.320131@wards: > > > "Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:l2SZ9.3121$[email hidden]... > >> I am suffering a bout of self-inflicted video problems with GPL > >> (and a GeForce 3 card). Having done a bit of tweaking of the > >> video card settings, I am now stuck with menu screens in GPL that > >> start out OK but which get more and more blurry as I look at > >> them. Putting the settings back to what I remember as being their > >> original values doesn't help. > >> > >> Short of removing the video drivers and running the denonator > >> remover program and then re-installing the drivers again, does > >> anyone have a checklist of video settings that work with GPL that > >> they'd be willing to share. > >> > >> The in-car video is fine, but those blurred menus are driving me > >> nuts! > > > > AA causes the menu screen corruption. > > > > Malc. > > > Yes! That solved it. Thanks a lot! > -- > Darryl

Darryl, And if you want to run AA (which makes a big difference, IMHO), get WiHerr's OpenGL patch from forum.racesimcentral.com (do a search for WiHerr) and something around the 30.82 drivers from guru3d.com . You should see smoother framerates in general with OpenGL than D3D, with no menu corruption if you run with AA. Rick

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:49:58 -0500, "Rick Baumhauer" <[email hidden]> wrote something like this: >And if you want to run AA (which makes a big difference, IMHO), get WiHerr's >OpenGL patch from forum.racesimcentral.com (do a search for WiHerr) and >something around the 30.82 drivers from guru3d.com . You should see >smoother framerates in general with OpenGL than D3D, with no menu corruption >if you run with AA. The latest drivers from nVidia seem to work fine with WiHerr's OGL patch... well, atleast with my GF2MX400 :) -- - JKo -

Rick Baumhauer wrote in news:b1953a$10pbs2$[email hidden]: >> > "Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >> > news:l2SZ9.3121$[email hidden]... >> >> I am suffering a bout of self-inflicted video problems with >> >> GPL (and a GeForce 3 card).<snip>

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>> >> >> >> The in-car video is fine, but those blurred menus are driving >> >> me nuts! >> > >> > AA causes the menu screen corruption. >> > >> > Malc. >> > > > And if you want to run AA (which makes a big difference, IMHO), > get WiHerr's OpenGL patch from forum.racesimcentral.com (do a > search for WiHerr) and something around the 30.82 drivers from > guru3d.com . You should see smoother framerates in general with > OpenGL than D3D, with no menu corruption if you run with AA. > > Rick >

Thanks for the tip, Rick. The mention of OpenGL sounds familiar, but I've never bother giving it a try as the D3D drivers seemed to be working fine (until I messed with the settings. I think there's a lesson there.... <g>) I'll have to find a run of two or three consecutive days when I don't have a league race and try installing the OpenGL drivers and the newer nVidia drivers to match. Thanks again, -- Darryl