Sceptre Naga x20 monitor problesm with out of range

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:40 pm

Ok so i'm running windows xp x64 have my brand new 20.1 widescreen lcd and I can't game. I'm getting angry. even tried reinstalling games but everything is out of range when I try to run them. how can I set games to run in widescreen before running them? -Dgood

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:23 pm

it depends on the game, most monitors scale resoluutions though but if you need to set it manually then try looking for a configuration file in the game directory and open it in notepad, sometimes theres a way to input a custom resolution in there.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:43 pm

I've been looking and can't find out I can get some games to open and run at resolutions like 1280x1024 and others won't with the same resolution. I'm not sure whats wrong but this monitor had great reviews and everything I wanted but I'm wondering if its my os and needs a driver specific to the monitor.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:09 am

fixed it by getting a friends dvi cable instead of the vga it came with. too bad it doesn't work well with the vga it came with since it didn't come with dvi I have to go buy one now.

bigblockmatt · Post by **bigblockmatt** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:53 am

ya, i have that same monitor. i really like it. sometimes though i will get the "out of range" thing. i just let it load and it finally goes away. I am also running dvi cable.

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:07 pm

Yeah, I just got this monitor too during Black Friday, glad to know this stuff exists before I wonder what's wrong!

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:18 pm

im getting two of those 1 for christmas and one shortly after so yeah im really glad you found a solution!

bigblockmatt · Post by **bigblockmatt** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:23 pm

usually, if, it gives me out of range, it is when i am restarting. i just let it go and it comes back on the windows login screen.

Ive had it since last xmas. i love it.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:53 pm

Yeah just got my new dvid cable today ordered a nice one off newegg, but was hoping to get dvi-i which is near impossible so I settled fro dvi-d since digital was waht I needed anyway. Its a great monitor besdies that issue I was having, just wouldnt' detect the true settings of the monitor without dvi for some reason. Everytime i've had questions you guys have been really helpful.

bigblockmatt · Post by **bigblockmatt** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:37 pm

have you installed it yet? if so, did it fix it?

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:18 pm

I just got mine in the mail this past week and just installed it about an hour ago (I was camping

), and it works fine out of the box with a plain old vga cable. I'll get a dvi one sometime, but it's ok so far. Could it be your graphics card or driver that was the true problem?

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:28 pm

if you installed the driver taht came with it it might have been that for the vga but for some reason on it it would register resolutions up to 3200x2800 or something along those lines then it wouldnt' come back out. I couldn't' use the driver that came with it just windows one because its not xpx64 compatible like most things. could have been a variety of things but my nice 9 dollars 27pin DVI is rocking the house and everything auto fixed when I used it so if you have problems go dvi, and even if not it does tend to work a bit better with it. Digital to digital you know.

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:01 am

Nope, no driver install here! Who knows?