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Solve : severe hourglass display outside Windows? |
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Answer» A while back my son installed a game on our old computer (I think it was Starcraft, similar to Warcraft). Something went haywire with the graphics. The screen went into severe pincushion, or actually inverse pincushion - hourglass where it seems to wrap back around itself. Back in WINDOWS it was fine. Then when we rebooted, the screen went into the hourglass while rebooting until Windows took over. Another oddity is that my MS Flight Simulator started running much slower with poor input response as though it had lost hardware acceleration and the image was smaller and in a window instead of fullscreen. Stranger yet, Warcraft III still works fine. The new computer identified the monitor right away, plug and play. Actually, it didn't identify it all. Plug and Play merely means the monitor is just that to Windows.. Plug and playThanks for responding. Unfortunately no manual in hand, but I don't remember anything substantial for this monitor. I might be able to find one on the Viewsonic website but it's a few years old and they don't sell the same model anymore. I did try putting it into the fault state by running a game and then brought up the onscreen adjustments menu and ran the values for various parameters up and down through the whole range. Didn't seem to have any effect. By plug and play I meant it was able to identify it by name. In some display box I saw, the new computer showed it being a P220f without any prompting from me. It sounds to me that whatever game that was messed with your default settings ...i would un-install the game first and then re-install your VIDEO drivers.Yeah, I thought it was something LIKE that until I hooked the monitor to a brand new computer, fresh out of the box with no games or anything installed on it and the very first time I turned the computer on, as it booted up the display showed the same severe distortion. As soon as Windows came up everything was fine. No distortion. Every time it reboots the display is distorted until Windows is up. Same with any computer, new, old, and very old that has never before touched this monitor. A different newly installed game on the new computer has the same display problem. Goes away when I quit the game. Thanks for responding The distortion is likely because there are no drivers loaded until Windows loads up...if it is fine after Windows loads i wouldn't be concerned. But it also has the distortion whenever a game takes over the graphics. The distortion goes away when the game is turned off. Part of the fun of the hot new computer is new games for the kids. Check the video settings within the individual games themselves... Update the vidoe drivers for that card... Or get the kids an XBox... |
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