New drivers fucked up display

TheMorningStar

So, I have installed the newest nvidia drivers for my 6800, and now it doesn't display the whole screen at once, and everything is stretched and looks like shit. I am running it the monitors native resolution, which is 1440x900, but it looks fucking terrible. Before these new drivers it was fine, but now if I want to see the time I have to move my mouse to the right edge of the screen for it to "scroll", and then I have to "scroll" back the other way if I want to use the start button.

Is there any other option than just installing old drivers?


Also, I tried all the different scaling methods in the nvidia control panel, but nothing. And I've gone through all the options a million times, but haven't found anything that helps.

Raiden333

TheMorningStar wrote: »

So, I have installed the newest nvidia drivers for my 6800, and now it doesn't display the whole screen at once, and everything is stretched and looks like shit. I am running it the monitors native resolution, which is 1440x900, but it looks fucking terrible. Before these new drivers it was fine, but now if I want to see the time I have to move my mouse to the right edge of the screen for it to "scroll", and then I have to "scroll" back the other way if I want to use the start button.

Is there any other option than just installing old drivers?


Also, I tried all the different scaling methods in the nvidia control panel, but nothing. And I've gone through all the options a million times, but haven't found anything that helps.

Are you sure you got the drivers for the right 6800? I have a 6800 Go Ultra in my laptop and I remember having issues when I downloaded drivers for Desktop cards.

TheMorningStar

Yeah. I'm using a nvidia GeForce 6800 vanilla with ForceWare Release 162.18, and under products supported it says 6800.

Link:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_162.18.html

TheMorningStar

I fixed it! I found this through google:

1. NVIDIA Control Panel > Display > Manage custom timings.
2. Click both "Treat as HDTV" and "Allow modes not exposed by the display"
3. Click [Create...]
4. Under Custom display mode values:
Horizontal desktop pixels: 1440
Vertical desktop lines: 900
GDI Refresh rate: 60
Bits per pixel: 32
(don't have "Interlaced" checked)
5. Click [Advanced >>] (by the way this is where I didn't go when NVIDIA emailed me)
6. Under "Back-end parameters":
Timing standard: DMT
Desired refresh rate: 60
(the rest of the fields are grayed out)
7. Under "Front-end paramers"
Scaling type: Display (none)
8. Click [Test]
9. Click [OK]