Display issue

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Lukee12

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Hi, my sister recently installed the Sims 2 on our system, which not for the first time, didn't work and ended up constantly crashing the computer. However, before we uninstalled it, it left the screen resolution at 800x600 pixels, which i believe is what the game uses. I would imagine that normally the screen reverts back to 1024x768 or whatever it is specifically. However, when i try to do this via right click-->properties-->settings, it results in a very dodgy display, which is constantly flickering, especially when something is loading or taking up memory in the background! I'm not sure exactly how to solve this problem, and it's rather irritating. Furthermore, even after changing the resolution back, the font does not seem to be like it was before - this may be my imagine, but both the icons and the font seem bigger, and graphically not as good ... what do i have to do to be able to get the computer looking like it was before the install?
Any help much appreciated!
Cheers, Luke

Also, i'm not sure i'm putting this post in the most appropriate place, so feel free to move it!
 
first of all, it is in the right place.

Now have you uninstalled your video card drive??? and reinstalled it??

If you have the resolution on 1024 x 860, and it needs to change it, the game will change it and then revert back to the original once you are done.
 
The trouble is, it didn't revert back to the original resolution when it exited, and kept coming up with errors so we uninstalled it, but still have the same resolution. I managed to change it back and get rid of the flickering by changing the frames per second, but everything it still too big, its v annoying! :S hehe
 
oh you uninstalled the game, that won't do anything....

uninstall the video card driver and then reinstall it, do you know how to do that?
 
No, i'm not entirely sure how :S And I'd have to be sure I'd be able to reinstall it easily of course!
As I understand it, the last time the game was installed then uninstalled, the same thing happened and then righted itself again or something, but I'm not sure how! (I was at university)
 
ok, well this isn't my strongest area really, sorry, i'll see how it goes over night (aus time) and see what the go is when i get up tommorow morning.

Sorry :o
 
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