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    windows 7 and overlord/other games

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by 133794m3r, Jul 16, 2009.

  1. 133794m3r

    133794m3r Notebook Consultant

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    for some unknown reason in windows 7 whenver i have a game that's made for only fullscreen. I absoultely hate any game company who's like oh we're going to make it fullscreen only with no way to make it windowed. Anyway back to the point. Whenver i play a game like for example Mirror's Edge and then also Overlord the other screen flashes ~3 times then just kinda freezes. By that i mean VlC's video just freezes in full screen or windowed. I have no idea how to fix it in overlord.

    In mirrror's edge i just changed the resolution to that of my desktop and it worked just fine. But overlord's not letting me do that and have ti work right. I've also even triecd compatibilty mode for xp sp3. I'm on 7 x64 rc.

    edit it apparently freezes all video images but keeps the audio going. I hvae no no idea if this is a known issue/has a fix yet as my searches revealed nothing.
     
    133794m3r, Jul 16, 2009
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    Try some other GPU drivers?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Jul 17, 2009
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