Donan Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 This might of been just a fluke, but it left me in a bad situation. I have a AMD 1.4, ASUS MB w/ GF 2 Pro. 512ram. I was playing along with the demo and 'bang!', I was kicked to desktop with something like 400x600 resolution(!)I don't have my keystrokes down very well and it was impossible to get to the 'settings/resolution' screen. So I had to take it to the shop (I thought my vid card busted). They knew the keystrokes and got me back to a resolution that I could deal with things. Now I'm afraid to play it again. Any- one else had this problem or something similar? Donan p.s I'll probably give in to the danger. The game is just too addicting:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 Uh... that sounds strange. Did you have some sort of resolution switching utility in your System Tray ? On Win9x/ME I believe it's possible to have a color depth / resolution switching portion of the Display control panel down in the System Tray. I don't know what the keystrokes would be to activate that (it may show a pop up list), but it's possible you hit that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt963 Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 The most important thing is to make sure you have all of the most current drivers for all of your hardware, and all of the current Windows updates. It sounds to me like you were running a resolution and refresh rate that your system couldn't handle, that is why it crashed. If this happens again, just hit the reset button on your system case and restart in safemode by pressing down the F8 button right before Windows starts to load. This will just load the generic drivers and allow you to access your control panel to reset your resolution and refresh rates. Once you do this reboot the system and allow it to start normally. This should take care of any problems you might have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donan Posted September 5, 2002 Author Share Posted September 5, 2002 Thanks folks for your comments. Had nothing peculiar in my sys tray. And I have up-to-date nVidia (well actually I heard there is a new one out: 30.82). I did a couple reboots, but forgot about the F8 so thanks for the tip/ reminder. I'll be ready if it happens again:) I was running it at 1024x768-32bit (forgot to mention that in my initial post). Donan p.s. btw, up-to-date with ME(which sucks. Plan to install XP Pro in about a week with a new GF 4 Ti 4200 DDR w/128 and a 60gig Seagate HD:) Hate to give up DOS tho'. Still play some 'classics' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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