Maybe off-topic ? Video Games cause monitor to "go black"

[Ch33zst34k]

I recently upgraded my Nvidia drivers for my home-built rig running
XP, SR3. Video card is NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (640 MB) . All my
games used to run fine before SR3 and driver update and simply
restoring system doesn't see to help.

My amateur guess is that the issue is related to either monitor
resolution and/or frame rate since games work okay on CRT monitor,
however my Viewsonic LCD flat panel goes black upon game start - I can
verify that games are booting because i do get load screen initially,
but then screen goes black but audio is clearly playing. I am forced
to reboot to get back into Windows since I can't ctrl-alt-del in the
blackness.

Any help on this one guys ? I am having withdrawl from not gaming !

TIA,
G

 

[Andrew E.]

Try installing the previous driver package from nvidia.Also,maybe download
the latest Direct X update,get the redistributable,install,then install
nvidia.

"Ch33zst34k" wrote:

> I recently upgraded my Nvidia drivers for my home-built rig running
> XP, SR3. Video card is NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (640 MB) . All my
> games used to run fine before SR3 and driver update and simply
> restoring system doesn't see to help.
>
> My amateur guess is that the issue is related to either monitor
> resolution and/or frame rate since games work okay on CRT monitor,
> however my Viewsonic LCD flat panel goes black upon game start - I can
> verify that games are booting because i do get load screen initially,
> but then screen goes black but audio is clearly playing. I am forced
> to reboot to get back into Windows since I can't ctrl-alt-del in the
> blackness.
>
> Any help on this one guys ? I am having withdrawl from not gaming !
>
> TIA,
> G
>

 

[Ch33zst34k]

Re: Maybe off-topic ? Video Games cause monitor to "go black"

On Jul 29, 11:24 pm, Andrew E. <eckric...@msn.com> wrote:
>  Try installing the previous driver package from nvidia.Also,maybe download
>  the latest Direct X update,get the redistributable,install,then install
> nvidia.
>
>
>
> "Ch33zst34k" wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my Nvidia drivers for my home-built rig running
> > XP, SR3.  Video card is NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (640 MB) .  All my
> > games used to run fine before SR3 and driver update and simply
> > restoring system doesn't see to help.
>
> > My amateur guess is that the issue is related to either monitor
> > resolution and/or frame rate since games work okay on CRT monitor,
> > however my Viewsonic LCD flat panel goes black upon game start - I can
> > verify that games are booting because i do get load screen initially,
> > but then screen goes black but audio is clearly playing. I am forced
> > to reboot to get back into Windows since I can't ctrl-alt-del in the
> > blackness.
>
> > Any help on this one guys ?  I am having withdrawl from not gaming !
>
> > TIA,
> > G- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Andrew - thanks for the tip - tried that with no results. I think I
am getting closer however, narrowing the issue to be monitor related.
My CRT monitor has no problem but the flat panel LCD still blacks
out. Can anyone advise how to adjust frame rate and/or resolutions to
optimal setting ? TIA !