Charles2222
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ORIGINAL: Charles_22 Perhaps you have them on seperate hard drives? Here's a Vista-related question everyone. I have Sins of a Solar Empire. I played it a good deal on the XP before she gave way, but now it's my first game install on the Vista. Problem number one, and I think I saw this with another program elsewhere, but the desktop doesn't snap back to it's prior resolution after the games is over, even after a reboot. I can adjust this manually every time, but it is a hassle. Another thing, the game has perhaps the top half-inch and bottom half-inch of data chopped off. Since I know how to play the game already, it's not that much of a problem, but I don't seem to be able to adjust it. Never had that on the XP, but then I had a standard size monitor. I'm running a 16X9 now, so I'm sure that has something to do with that (changing the monitor to 4X3, for example, didn't help either). Unfortunately running in a windowed mode, which I never did on the XP, merely trades where the chop off will be, not really helping any. I may be able to adjust the problem, however, by trying a different scaling option on the vid card, but I hope I don't have to do that, and of course I don't know if that will help just yet. And why don't I know when that's such an easy thing to check? Why, my program disappeared of course, what do you think? I'm not kidding. I had that program SoaSE running this morning, saved a game and then shut down. I come back this afternoon trying to figure how to get around my display problems, not noticing whether the program is there or not. I do a system search and the stupid thing disappeared and my shortcut is gone. It shows up as still being in my D drive (dvd), though the game doesn't need one in the drive. Is there anything possible in God's green earth that would delete a program, such as changing vid settings? Sounds pretty wild to me. Lol Charles, maybe you should just run good old XP and forget Vista. Seems you have your hands full, sir. Athough without sitting in front of your PC it appears you have a video card issue and not a Vista issue. One other thing, I would suggest(if you have not tried this already) to create a "games" folder and install all of them there instead of the default directory. I think this generic monitor is giving the system headaches. I installed soem sort of ATi suite to help, and I have downgraded the desktop resolution. The dump, which has happened several times now, says something about a driver irql not less or equal. This being a 720p, though it let's me do 1080p, just might be the problem. If it don't work at the 1680X1050 rate I might just have to either follow the dump imstructions or get another monitor with a software driver to it. As far as creating a games folder, I have had far too long been going the default route, and it will surely bite me in the rear far worse if I go that route. The only thing that makes any sense of the disappeared game, is that I usually hit the windows key, then 'u', and then select shutdown. In vista, if you hit windows and then u, it goes into a u search, which just happens to have a slew of uninstall programs there. If you hit enter routinely at the next step as I did, I could had uninstalled it, however, I am surprised that I wasn't given the slightest video or audio clue that such was happening.
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