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Monitor Geometry
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Posted by: SKYHN
I find monitor geometry very anoying. I spent about an hour the first time I had my new monitor fixing all the stuff. Then when I went from 800x600 to 1024x768, i had to do even more adjustments. It seems that it has moved again. Is there a program out there or a guideline that you can use that tells you what values you should set? I have a 19" .26mm hp pavilion mx90 monitor.
(its quite nice too btw, heres a link if you wanna see)
http://www.hp-at-home.com/hpPavilio...plays/mx90.html
Posted by: Freak
Try PowerStrip in the downloads Section.
Posted by: Swilo
The reason you have all those settings available is because they're unique to the monitor. The only info we could give is what the settings adjust, but that's usually blatantly obvious.
I know on older monitors where they only did 640 or 800 max and were <=15" the only problems were the horizontal and vertical positioning, with the bigger and more complex monitors the adjustments are almost inpossible to have premeade for every resolution without adding on a lot more to production time and cost.
Posted by: SKYHN
Ok powerstrip is pretty cool. I dont exactly understand all the stuff on it, but Ill get it eventually. What is this though:
Sideband addressing - hardware support, but currently disabled
Fast write protocol - hardware support, but currently disabled
That was under my video card in the little report at the bottom. Can those be enabled and if so does it have an advantage?
Posted by: Swilo
They're different methods of data transfer that AGP cards can use on certain motherboards. Usually enabling them can increase speed or decrease bandwidth consumption, but may alo cause some problems with your system.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Both of those settings are probably defined in your BIOS which were probably disabled by default by the manufacturer of your PC. . AGP fast writes will improve performance as will Sideband addressing.
These settings may cause problems depending on your hardware though. In most cases, they won't hurt anything enabled. Sideband addressing may be more problematic enabled if your AGP bus is overclocked.
Enable both settings. And if you experience lockups, disable sideband addressing first and then AGP fastwrites. If you get good performance now, I wouldn't worry about it unless you're wanting to squeeze some better performance for a game that runs choppy.
Posted by: SKYHN
How do I enable them?
I dont have too many problems with games. The only games taht get a little choppy are Red Faction and RTCW. Thats probably due to lag though, but I play Single Player on Red Faction a lot and get lag on there sometimes.
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