Re: x-com monitor problem

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From: TypewriterJason
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:44

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Okay, so this is weird. The old dos version I bought when the game
first came out, works fine, no bleed, no nothing. (It's super-fast, and
for some reason moslo makes the computer hang and not do anything, but
it looks fine.) It's the windows version from the collectors edition
that bleeds over...

On Oct 24, 7:59 pm, "BladeFireLight" <k...@usa.net> wrote:
> This sounds like the frequency is out of range.
> Usualy the horizontal refresh is from 60-85hz
> but if the viertical rate is at a strange setting this issue happens.
> and nothing you do to the monitor can fix it.
>
> It's been a while sense I messed with 98. but if the driver configs are
> simialr to xp you can set the alowed refrash ranges at each resolution
> in the monitors driver ini file.
>
> I use this to set fix dox box from displaying the black bars at the top
> and bottom.
>
> Check the device manager for the deails of your monitr and if you can
> find the ini file in question you can usualy modify the refresh rates
> and reboot.
> 
> Sorry I cant be more detailed.
> 
> -Blade FireLight

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