So I get a new HD TV, now ETO won't run???

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Mahon MacRi

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Hi all,
I'm having a bit of trouble here, so I thought I'd ask around and see if anybody else has ever run into anything like this.

Basically, my old television was dying, so I got a new one...I traded up from a 32" LCD to a 39" LED...but now that it's all hooked up, ETO just won't run! I get as far as the splash screen, but when the screen goes black just before the intro movie plays...voila, CTD!
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Any helpful hints, suggestions? (I'm dying here...I live with a great deal of chronic pain, and saddling up and blasting bad guys out of the air is my one and only major de-stresser :isadizzy: so as you can imagine, this is really kicking my "six!" :mix-smi: (I'm really flippin' out, here!) :mix-smi:
Thanks, all, sincerely, "Mac"
 
It's running now, thank goodness!

gradyhappyg said:
You might try running the CFS3 config. Any time I have changed hardware or drivers I have to rerun it.
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Yeah, I tried that (and several other notions) prior to posting my "help" thread, but nothing I tried seemed to work; I finally just accepted that it must be some kind of hardware problem with the new HD television...it wouldn't run at 1600 x 1080, despite being a full 1080p HD, just like my last one only with about 50% more screen area :icon_lol: (I went from 32" to a 39" and wow, what a big difference!)


Anytime I try to run it at 1600 x 1080 VGA the television registers it as 1600 x 900 and I get a big black bar (presumably the "missing" 180 pixels wide, of course) down the left side of the screen...and for some unknowable reason, ETO simply won't run whenever that happens. It runs okay as long as I keep the resolution down to 1360 x 768, but I miss seeing those gorgeous airframes in their full 1080p glory.

I'm hanging onto the old one to see if it's worth fixing, in which case I'll just use it as a dedicated monitor for my computer, which will solve all my resolution problems nicely, but I need to know if it's worth fixing or if it'll cost more than the thing is worth now...it's an "off brand" name ("Fluid") from The Source: by Circuit City, so I don't know if it even can be fixed.

Meanwhile, my half-decent video card (EVGA Nvidia 9400 GT w/1 Gb RAM) also has an S Video out, and somewhere around here I have an S Video to RGB adapter, so I'm going to try digging that up and see if that'll give me the full 1600 x 1080 resolution. I've always found that I get better resolutions off S Video than VGA anyway, and the RGB input is set to "Colourstream HD," so I'm sure that'll make a big difference.


Of course, I'll have to manually switch RGB cables from DVD to computer everytime I want to use it, but the input's very easy to reach so it's not that big a deal.

Anyway, thanks for the helpful suggestion, but I reckon I've got it knocked now.
 
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