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Hi.

I use 1680/1050 on desktop, i have a nice widescreen monitor. So, i load TF2 up, put it to 1280/800 (same ratio as desktop), but it refuses to accept this as a resolution. I know it accepted it before i reinstalled vista, but now it doesn’t.

It shows the menu screen as kind of half on, half off the screen. As though it can’t deal with the resolution, so it just shows me the top right hand corner of that resolution and the rest of it is offscreen.

Can anyone help me with this?

The other problem being that, before i reinstalled, i limited my framerate to 76 and it felt totally smooth and i was used to the feel of it. Now, after reinstalling, my 76 FPS doesn’t feel smooth to me, it feels a lot more juddery than before. Doesn’t make sense does it, but i can’t work out why. All my drivers and stuff are up to date.

But i’m hoping the resolution problem will be half the fix.

Hm.. well i have a geforce 9800gtx, got the drivers from nvidia for the 9x series and it’s recognised the card AS that, and i got my monitor drivers from asus as well.

I’m going to try windows update, but i’m not sure if i did that on my last install so i can’t see it having any luck – fingers crossed though.

I’m honestly perplexed, i didn’t even mean to fucking get rid of vista and reinstall in the first place. Installed windows 7 on a separate hard drive, didn’t like it, so i went back to vista and it locked me out, had to reformat.

Lol, when i read byte had replied, i thought “omg lame comment incoming”, and saw it was a good response. 2 minutes later i check and dunc has replied and i think “sweet, a good response” and it’s a lame response :D

Aye norris, same trick. Also did windows mode 1280/800 and change to fullscreen etc.

Invalid comment dunc. ie. a comment from an invalid.

dont want to seem like hijacking your post but i run my tf2 at 1280×1024 and when i close tf2 it just keeps resetting not only the resolution but also graphical properties. any help? :D

n0va autoexec an old config? check your cfgs

Also, i don’t know if this is related to the problem, but i’ve noticed that when i move the mouse slowly across say 30cm, it does about 180 degrees. If i do it very fast across 30cm, whip it, it does about 90 degrees.

I almost suspect that that’s somehow to do with the juddery feeling i get at 75fps, cos if i unlimit the framerate and i’m around 300 fps, it doesn’t seem to do it anymore.

But then again, at 75fps, that’s with 1600dpi/0.45 sensitivity. If i change it to 400dpi/1.8 sensitivity, it doesn’t seem to do it either.

I know for a fact the fps is juddery, but i’m willing to accept i’m over analysing things on the mouse :P

Edit: Every possible way i can turn maccel off, i’ve done it.

Edit2: I’ve also been told that limiting your framerate at 75 (well, fps_max 76) can sometimes cause tearing, so i upped it to 100, but it still just isn’t right. I could always remove the frame limit (and i did in a match last night), but i’ve got this juddering problem stuck in my brain and i can’t accept that it’s not a problem until i fix it :E Everything just feels wrong! I need that smoothness at 75fps :P

hm does any other res beside 1680/1050 work? had a similar problem to yours with my CRT. it was because of custom refresh rates. always had to run stuff with -refresh xx according to what the display driver could handle for the chosen resolution. if nothing helps, try autoconfig your game as well but make sure you backup your stuff first.

Aha. So if i change my refresh rate to 75hz, i can use 1280/800 on desktop.

Thanks norris, i’m getting somewhere at least!

So is there a way to force it so that i can run a game in 75hz and at 1280/800?

AND WHY IS THIS SUDDENLY A PROBLEM AFTER A REINSTALL!?

Just use -freq 75 in launch commands?