Fuzzy el vista 8600gts

[oromis]

my pc stats:

 

Vista home premium

quad core 2.4ghz intel q6600

xfx nvidia geforce 8600gts

2gb ram

350gb windows partition

acer al1916w monitor (1440x900)

 

 

#glinfo

 

Video card: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2

Vendor ID: NVIDIA Corporation

OpenGL Version: 2.1.2

 

The problem:

 

When playing el in vista it looks blocky even with poorman enabled as if everything is a little out of focus. Its especially noticable when wearing something like a titanium chain mail. I never get very good fps and often struggle to get to my FPS limit of 45. When playing a youtube video on the desktop along with el my fps drop to around 8-10. I also play el on this pc under ubuntu 7.10 and it looks perfect. I get 200+ fps and have no trouble running multiple clients or videos at the same time before my fps takes a hit.

 

Also on vista my resolutions seem to be all wrong, i play on 800x600 because 1024x768 wont fit on my screen. If i make an image 800x600 in paint and compare it to the el window, el is much larger. When i try to switch to fullscreen mode it switches fine but it looks like it just zoomed in, my hud is off the screen and i cant see the channels bar, the buttons or the right hand hud.

 

I have tried updating my drivers using the xfx site, I searched for drivers using the code on my card and installed the vista 32 bit drivers successfully but this hasnt fixed my problem with el. I played half life 2 at 1440x900 and it looked perfect with high settings i never noticed any issues at all.

 

Any ideas are welcome.

Edited April 29, 2008 by oromis

[Learner]

For flat panel's. you should run the same resolution that the panel is or run in windowed mode. Anything else and the panel will make it look fuzzy. This has nothing to do with EL or the OS/drivers. The 1440x900 resolution is supported in EL if the OS admits you have it available ... go to the video tab and scroll the list farther to the bottom.

[oromis]

Thanks for the quick response.

 

I tried 1440x900 in windowed mode and it is much too large for the screen and when i alt+enter to get fullscreen it zooms in. All this does is cut off the hud and top channels bar again although it does take up the entire screen.

Edited April 29, 2008 by oromis

[LabRat]

Have you tried messing with the nvidia control panel settings for quality/performance etc? I have seen on my own systems the havoc that nvidia's default settings can do to this game.

[oromis]

Im just after testing your suggestion labrat. I tried moving the slider from its original setting of balanced to performance and then to quality neither solved my problem. I then tried changing the setting altoghether to "let the 3D application decide" and that didnt solve it either.

 

Edit: Im after taking a few screenshots on both vista and ubuntu using ctrl+p. I viewed the screenshots on both ubuntu and vista and they are identical looking, same size and quality as i took them using the same client settings. However the el client itself on vista is much larger than the screenies even though the client says it is "Window size adjusted to 780x550" and the resolution the the screenies are also 780x550. The client on ubuntu is exactly the same size as the screenies.

 

 

 

[sOLVED]

 

Solution: it turns out my DPI was set to 120 when I got the computer which made everything seem out of focus, turning the DPI down to 96 as should be the default sorted out my problem.

 

To change your DPI in vista go to your control panel, choose personalization. Now type DPI into the search bar and you should get a result "Adjust font size (DPI)".

 

Thanks to those who tried help solve my problem especially Phildaburn who thought of this solution.

Edited September 4, 2008 by oromis