Display Nightmares On Several Games?
Dec 7, 2011
ive got some older games that just don't display correctly at all on Windows 7.Actually, its so blurry it goes beyond frustration and borders on hilarity.Here's a few examples.Serious Sam 1 main menu Serious Sam 2 main menu Doom 3 (I clicked "something" and it pulled up this menu which displays as well as the something I clicked.)Keep in mind, those screenshots are 1440x900 resolution in Windows 7 64bit.I had these games back in the day on an XP system, and they displayed/played just fine. (of course the hardware was different too)Serious Sam are GOG.com games, Doom 3, PCDVD.I would also like to mention that I play Descent 3, which was released before all three of these aforementioned games, and it displays/plays just fine.Before I have someone tell me to switch the compatibility to XP, I've already done that. Actually, I've tried every compatibility, even Windows 95.I tried running the games on and off of disable visual themes, disable desktop composition, disable display scaling on high DPI settings.I've already updated my ALL drivers to the newest they could be. Sounds counter productive since its older games, but I still did it.I have the newest version of Direct X installed.I have the most recent patch of Doom 3 installed which is supposed to have Vista/7 support.
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Apr 11, 2012
so ever since I got Windows 7, i have had nothing but nightmares alternating between 2 hard drives.
before back when I was running XP I had 2 HDDs that I would alternate between. both had XP installed, one of which was for backup. whenever I had a problem with my current OS, I would just swap the HDDs and run my backup while I image the other screwed up one.
now with Windows 7, i cannot do that because of the STUPID bootloader. bootloader made me have nightmares at night. pretty much what happens when I swap it says "BOOTMGR is Missing". now whats really messed up is that, I think the PC stores the bootloader info NOT ON THE HDD, but somewhere in the BIOS or mobo. because i completely disable the old HDD that I used to bootup with 3 partitions, and the one im trying to boot up has 2 partitions and it worked perfectly. but since i used norton ghost and try to boot up after restoring a backup of 7 on it, it says "BOOTMGR is missing".
both of my HDD windows got screwed up, and even my CD ROM STOPPED WORKING! i couldnt even recover it from the W7 disk. but I maanged to fool the system by swapping CDs and finally got into the recovery and repaired one of my HDDs boot loader. but the one I need it to work within 2 days is still messed up. can someone explain to me how this bootloader works and what i need to do?
I got 7, XP, and Vista on SATA, and 7 and Ubuntu on IDE. both worked fine whenever I needed to swap between them until i messed with Norton Ghost
do i need to format my HDD and write 0s to it? it worked for my SATA that wouldnt boot up and give me NTLDR error before. same crap with W7 bootloader.
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I had a terrible virus, so had to format and install another windows 7.
I noticed the graphics driver is a bit different, and now when i select 'maintain aspect ratio', it makes no diffference whatsoever. how to actually get full screen again?
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So why on earth would these games lag??? IT's DRIVING ME INSANE! I can't play them without a lag and my system specs are above the "REQUIRED" system requirements to run the games.
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2. PhYsix is set to auto so it selects the best CPU for physix controlled games. And I've also tried both.
3. My games are run in the LOWEST possible game and graphic specs to try make it
less laggy, to no avail.
4. 3d is "disabled". So it can't be slow.
5. I do not have any virus's, and all my display drivers are correctly installed and up to date.
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