cableghost Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 Whenever I play an earlier game, say Tiger Woods 99, etc. ... my display is not maximized on the screen, and it seems to default to 640x480.My Question- how can I set Win XP display default to 1024x768? (outside of setting it in Display Options- that I'm aware of) Additionally, in Win98, there was a registry location to set default screen size/resolution that fixed this problem ... is there a similar local in WinXP?-------------Thanks,Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Booger Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 When you play games on any machine, AFAIK, some games automatically default to 640X480. I too would like to be able to do away with having to resize the screen when playing Quake, or UT, or Medal of Honor. If anyone knows how to make this automatic, please speak up!Big Booger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zErO Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 Have u tried using a prog like Nvreffix which can tweak ur refresh rate so that it doesnt switch back to the default of 60hz when gamingthis is for Nvidia based cards only......Im sure theres something similar for other cards!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Booger Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 He said resolution, not refresh rate LOLBig Boogerj/k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 You can get the Nvidia refresh rate fix here; http://www.speedy3d.com/tweaking/and the Radeon refresh rate fix here; http://www.rage3d.com/radeon/r3dtweak/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cableghost Posted February 7, 2002 Author Share Posted February 7, 2002 I don't think adjusting the refresh rates will do anything to display resolution.Again, with my Win98 machine, to make older games run in full-screen, 1024x768 for me, I simply modified a registry key that had the default display resolution ... I can't seem to find a similar reg key in WinXP. Maybe one of you can locate such a key ... I may not be looking under the right branch or something.----------Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zErO Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 Sorry my mistake........well if ur looking at adjusting it in ur registry, run regedit to see if u can fix it there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cableghost Posted February 7, 2002 Author Share Posted February 7, 2002 Thanks, though I thought we were beyond that ... I recognize that this issue is probably somewhere w/in registry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canny Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 In some games, you can set the configuration to what resolution you can have, but again in win2k or xp, it always set the refresh rate to 60hz, and hence the funny positions on the monitor, so sometimes the refresh fix does work!/me slaps Microsoft, get on to making refresh thingie like in Win98!---canny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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