9800gtx/ monitor issues

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goodoneian

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i just got a 9800gtx today, and i only have one problem. in the nvidia control panel, i'm no longer allowed to sharpen my monitors display anymore. this is very annoying because everything is out of focus now. any suggestions? i have the most recent drivers installed just btw
 
my 8800gt wont let me change the sharpness either, but i think its the monitor. try adjusting the contrast in the nvidia control panel, and if that doesnt help try adjusting the sharpness manually from the monitors control panel
 
hackapelite said:
sharpen the picture? you mean change the resolution? what OS are you on? what monitor do you have?
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sharpen the picture refers to changing the focus of the image to eliminate blurriness, like changing the focus of binocular lenses so you can see clearer for example. the OS is irrelevant.
 
I get this sometimes when I change the drivers for my video card...

Make sure the refresh rate in nVidia Control panel is set the same as your monitor, in my case, both are set to 75Mhz. Also, If your monitor has it, Just push the Auto Adjust too. ;)

Hope it helps.
 
Ethan3.14159 said:
sharpen the picture refers to changing the focus of the image to eliminate blurriness, like changing the focus of binocular lenses so you can see clearer for example. the OS is irrelevant.
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Ummm... you don't have to "focus" the image on a monitor... :confused:

And I do have to say that sometimes display problems ARE related to the OS you're running.
 
You don't say if your'e running the monitor at it's native resolution, if it's not then it could well be blurred assuming it's a TFT monitor.

If it's a CRT then it's own menu should handle it.
 
i'm running vista home premium 32bit, at 1680x1050 native resolution at 60hz. my monitor does not have it's own sharpness adjuster so therefore i can't adjust it that way. it does have a focus adjuster, but it barely makes any difference. and when i say sharpness, yes i am referring to the option in the nvidia control panel, not my resolution. everything on my computer is exactly as it was with my 7900, so i have no clue what would even be causing this :/

would i need to upgrade windows or directx or something?
 
now that i just came home and turned on my computer, my monitor was set to 1440x900. it won't let me change it to 1680x1050 either, only 1600x1200
 
Uninstall drivers -> run Drivercleaner Pro -> reinstall newest drivers.

Sometimes old driver fragments can screw things up, this is my first guess. Second guess is that you just had a bad driver install. Doesn't happen to me frequently, but I have gotten a quirky install were things didn't go so smooth. This reinstall would set things straight if such were the case. Third guess would be the drivers themselves at blame. My only advise would be to pull back to an older driver version till things are worked out. (175.80 is considered a pretty stable [9 series compatible] release)
 
hermeslyre said:
Uninstall drivers -> run Drivercleaner Pro -> reinstall newest drivers.

Sometimes old driver fragments can screw things up, this is my first guess. Second guess is that you just had a bad driver install. Doesn't happen to me frequently, but I have gotten a quirky install were things didn't go so smooth. This reinstall would set things straight if such were the case. Third guess would be the drivers themselves at blame. My only advise would be to pull back to an older driver version till things are worked out. (175.80 is considered a pretty stable [9 series compatible] release)
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okay so i tried that and removed all my old drivers then re installed. i wasn't successful though. what i did do was on the nvidia control panel was make a custom resolution of 1680x1050 and it works fine so far.

whats weird also though was i put in my old 7900 and installed its drivers, and the same thing happened as far as not having my native resolution available. i'm gonna give evga tech support a call pretty soon and see what they think of this whole ordeal
 
That is strange, This all sounds like a bad driver problem to me but .. If Evga can help you out and get things fixed, post the solution here, I'd be interested to know what it was all about.
 
well i called tech support, and the guy i talked to said it could possibly be that my monitor needed drivers. so i checked acers website and of course, the only drivers for my monitor were for xp (i was using vista). he also said to update my motherboard's drivers from nvidias website. i did that, and everything was still screwy. so, i gave up and installed xp and have had no issues yet haha. seems like it was just a vista problem i guess? or the video card's vista drivers
 
I wouldn't say the monitor drivers would've helped much. They're usually nothing more than .inf text files that tell the OS what the monitor can do, this isn't really necessary.

Yeah, I think it was the Vista drivers. Le sigh. Least you're good for now, I would wait to retry till after a new set of drivers are released, needless to say.
 
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