video settings

Okay, so I have gathered a rough temperature and I have found that my PC's BIOS is kicking in and instantly shutting down the machine once it's temperature (the CPUS's) reaches in excess of 50 degrees celcuis. Now obviously this is nothing compared to what it should be set to, like... 70...

The thing is I installed Win7, then installed all the common apps that I usually use everyday (NetBeans, MSN, mIRC, Firefox) and drivers. I decided to install a game, runs, perfect, but the problems is with the resolution, i play it with 800x600, te problem is it won't stay in fullscreen, it...

In Windows Media Player 12, how do I enable the option for "Use high quality mode" ? there was an option for this in WMP 11.

The native resolution of my LCD monitor is 1680x1050, and this is what I use for my desktop. When I exit full-screen games (at any lower resolution) my desktop reappears at a lower resolution (1360x1024), and is very off center (to the left). In both the CCC and the Windows screen resolution...

I have been having trouble with my new laptop it is a Dell Inspiron 1318. It has a Intel Graphics card (My problem). I was able to play These games on it in Win7's Beta but now that I have the full version I am having trouble.ALL of my games don't work. They don't even display an error. I have...

I know some forum users are playing this game so when I saw this post I thought it may come in handy? Hidden away .. I wonder why. If you're running Borderlands on a Windows 7 platform, chances are you aren't actually running the game in DirectX 10. Why? The bro's over at ShackNews posted a...

So yesterday i was running xp just fine. Installed win 7 last night, and installed WoW and CS:S after that. Updated all the drivers for nvidia and tried to run my games and this photo is a screen shot of how both games look after about 10 seconds of playing. Ive exhausted all my options except...

Okay, heres the lowdown: I dual-boot both Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista (OEM), both 32-bit. Both are freshly formatted. Both operating systems work great, no issues to report. Both have their own partitions. I have installed Halo 2 on both operating systems. Naturally, the game...

ok, using 64 bit Win7, skype seems to function pretty well. but today when i did my first video call, the other person was unable to see me at all. if i go into the skype options, my webcam [logitech QC Pro 9000] shows and I can see myself, but there doesn't seem to be any way to turn my video...

Media Center was installed/setup as wide screen but after playing a DVD it has reverted to 4:3 aspect ratio and I cannot reconfigure. Any ideas?

Ok, i start up Age of Conan in DX10 mode, i get a plain black screen, but it renders the mouse to what it would look like. i can hear all the adio of the begining video's but i get no video other than the black screen. I have tried troubleshoot compatibility and everything else i could...

Ok, I've been tearing out my hair over this and would seriously like some help. quick and dirty computer setup: win7 7057 build 64bit samsung 40inch LCD tv (120hz 1080p) radeon 4870 512mb video card hooked to display via VGA input dual core e4500 @ 3.0ghz 4 gig ddr2 ram Now, my problem is...

Hey guys, I recently installed the Windows 7 public beta and it detected my hardware and triple monitor setup just fine. However, it set all three monitors to their maximum resolution of 2304x1440. I would like to be able to run them at other resolutions. When I change the resolution slider in...

It seems any game that runs in 256 colors (Diablo II, Starcraft, Worms: Armageddon, Eternal Fighter Zero, etc) have difficulty rendering their palette properly, resulting in garbled graphics or even unplayable situations. The only workaround I can find so far is to actually kill explorer.exe and...

Whenever I boot up windows 7 with both my monitors connected I get a corrupted screen on my main monitor, my other monitor works fine. My main monitor shows blue and white lines that flash, this changes depending what is on the screen. Windows logs in and I can see that mouse on my second...

Im running Windows Vista Starter RC2 Build 5744 and when I full screen my widescreen videos in Windows Media Player, instead of the top and bottom bars being black in widescreen, they are green. I looked in preferences and tryed different colour options but it seemed none of them worked. Is...