Nvidia's latest driver has confined me to 640x480

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FaT CaM

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Freakin NVIDIA and their empty promises of imporved reliability and support etc.

Just got latest drivers for my GF4 MX440 and I cant get out of a desktop res of 640x480, which means I have to be in that resolution or lower to be able to play games. I've tried many things such as changing the monitor type and changing color depth but the resolution slider wont budge. I'm using a Plug n Play monitor BTW. Any sugguestions?
 

Stryker8

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remember in order to update your driver, you first gotta uninstall the current one, restart, install the standard vga windows drivers, restart and then install the new drivers.
 

TomWithTheWeather

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I've never had to uninstall nVidia drivers before either (except changing cards), but I have heard of people having problems and having to uninstall the old ones to get the new ones to work. Try using a Detonator cleaner such as Detonator R.I.P. after unistalling your drivers the normal way.

Also see if you monitor cable is loose. Mostly likely not the problem, but I've had funny resolution problems because my monitor cable wasn't plugged in all the way.
 

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If you didn't do it right you could've been left with default drivers, do what tom says, but first look at your device manager (via the control panel > system stuff) and see what it tells you you have.

hint: if it doesn't say geforce, but default instead, then try installing the drivers again anyway.
 
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