Widescreen Gaming Forum

So I ran into a problem the other day.

I was messing around with the .cfg file in Doom3, trying to learn the ins and outs of setting up resolutions for games so they would work best with surround gaming. The best way to learn is by doing it yourself, correct? I eventually set it up to run at 5040x1050. I have other games running at that resolution (HL2, Guild Wars, Dead Space, CoD4) so I figure that D3 at that rez would be the pinnacle of it all, right?


WRONG!!!!!!


This is where it got funky. I started up the game after setting the desired resolution and instead of either a) 3 gray screens or b) the game centered on the center lcd, all 3 lcd's flashed as though they were changing resolutions and then..... they went blank. I couldn't alt-tab or ctrl+alt+delete to get back to the windows desktop, so I did a hard reset and when I got back to the windows desktop I no longer had an image on my center lcd. The other two were just fine, but the center one wasn't displaying anything. After switching lcd's around on the TH2G and switching dvi cables around on the lcd's, I tried connecting the malfunctioning lcd directly to the pc and got a signal. Oddly enough the screen was seen as a "generic *NON*plug and play monitor with only 2 resolutions available. I determined that the TH2G was working fine as it would display a picture on either of the other 2 lcd's when they were hooked to any of the 3 outputs.

Sensing trouble, I ran (drove) to Best Buy to get a new dvi cable to test the problem screen and see if it really was the hardware or the currently used cable (for some odd reason). After I got back and did more testing, I tried using a dvi->vga adapter on the TH2G and was able to get a signal to the problem lcd through that. It would pick up 1680x1050, but with black bars on either side of the image, so I had to turn it down to a total desktop resolution of 4320x900.

As it turns out, the resolution switch in Doom3 (call me misinformed) killed the dvi input on my center lcd! I can't get a signal through the dvi port, but can get one through the vga port.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of hardware malfunction? My 2 Westinghouse LCM-22w2's work fine, but the 22w3 is effectively working at 80% efficiency after trying to playing a game where all hell breaks loose. :twisted:

Go figure.....

At least now I have something to put the money from my paid vacation into. :oops: