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So, as you may kno, my monitor has kicked teh bucket and now that its the weekend and i have time, i set it up so that my tv can be used as a monitor.
So everything boots fine and i can use most programs but the second i open CS or any steam game, The screen goes black, and a message pops up saying that “Mode Is Not Supported: VGA: 1” i still get sound but from then on, until i reboot i cant get picture
I know this means i need to reconfigure everything so that it will work in the VGA mode, but i have no clue where to start. i checked Vista’s resolution properties, and fiddled with my vid card setting hoping it would work. Also note, that its previous monitor was hooked up via VGA
i also checked to see if it needed software to run, but apparently its all plug n play….so i dunno what to do
ren said:
contain yourself until you can buy a new monitor?should work fine as is
and now steam.dll isnt working…. dunno if related or not
If everything works until you open a game then it’s most likely a game config problem. If Windows works then there is no reason to touch any of your non-game related video settings. Try manually entering 800×600 in your game configs to reset it to something you can work with.
MasterP said:
If everything works until you open a game then it’s most likely a game config problem. If Windows works then there is no reason to touch any of your non-game related video settings. Try manually entering 800×600 in your game configs to reset it to something you can work with.ok… so i cant figure out how to change the game confg. i tired to open the config file in the steam folder but can figure out/to scared to go and try to change things… other than that i think im gonna try to connect via HDMI cable and see if that works cause hdmi is smarter than vga
Is the message a Windows message or a monitor message? That sort of message is usually given by a monitor when you are trying to display at a resolution it doesn’t support, hense why I said reset your game config. Changing to HDMI won’t do a thing if you’re still trying to use a resolution the monitor doesn’t support.
MasterP said:
Is the message a Windows message or a monitor message? That sort of message is usually given by a monitor when you are trying to display at a resolution it doesn’t support, hense why I said reset your game config. Changing to HDMI won’t do a thing if you’re still trying to use a resolution the monitor doesn’t support.yea its a monitor message, and i just figured that the HDMI setting would be able to change the resolution to comething acceptable (prob noob of me)
so how do i go about changing the config file without raping steam?
MajorMajorMajor said:
yea its a monitor message, and i just figured that the HDMI setting would be able to change the resolution to comething acceptable (prob noob of me)so how do i go about changing the config file without raping steam?
Pull up your game list in Steam. Right click CS then go to properties. Click set launch options. Put “-d3d -w 1024 -h 768” in there WITHOUT the “”. This should force your computer to play CS with DirectX at 1024×768. From there you can set it however you want.
MasterP said:
Pull up your game list in Steam. Right click CS then go to properties. Click set launch options. Put “-d3d -w 1024 -h 768” in there WITHOUT the “”. This should force your computer to play CS with DirectX at 1024×768. From there you can set it however you want.ok i got it to work ty <3
also since im thinking about it, whats the difference between D3D and OpenGL?
MajorMajorMajor said:
ok i got it to work ty <3also since im thinking about it, whats the difference between D3D and OpenGL?
OpenGL is a different rendering engine. It’s old as balls. Direct X is updated and maintained while OpenGL is outdated crap (it used to be *edited*ing awesome). Use d3d, your card will utilize it better.
Kuros said:
OpenGL is a different rendering engine. It’s old as balls. Direct X is updated and maintained while OpenGL is outdated crap (it used to be *edited*ing awesome). Use d3d, your card will utilize it better.Should I do the same for my comp…its a dell 1501 inspiron with win2000 os, I have a sigma Tel audio card cause I’m too poor to do anything else…”basically its stock”, but I want a better picture for when I play 1.*edited*. Please help.
YouWinGameOver said:
Should I do the same for my comp…its a dell 1501 inspiron with win2000 os, I have a sigma Tel audio card cause I’m too poor to do anything else…”basically its stock”, but I want a better picture for when I play 1.*edited*. Please help.On a computer that old you can’t make CS1.6 look any better than it already does. What I posted above is for people who are having trouble getting INTO the game.
YouWinGameOver said:
its not “that old” I got it December 2006…is there anything I could do?Buy a new computer?
bump.
While its wonderful to play games again, how would i go about getting back to a 1650×1050 from 1024×768? as of this moment i probably wont be getting a monitor untill thanksgiving-ish which is why i am wondering
everytime i try to change the resolution or from 16 bit to 32 bit it says that it wont work and then it reverts to software mode then closes itself
idk I have never been able to get CS1.6 to use 32bit as it does the same thing as yours, crashes and resets to default. You can try manually forcing it to that resolution using the same method I described earlier.
MasterP said:
idk I have never been able to get CS1.6 to use 32bit as it does the same thing as yours, crashes and resets to default. You can try manually forcing it to that resolution using the same method I described earlier.that worked wonderfully… i also upgraded to HDMI jsut cause i could and everything looks awesomeness now
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