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illicitstylz · 10-30-2009, 11:15 AM

Winxp x64
nVidia 7600 GT

everything is working fine until l4d2 told me I should update my drivers for my video card.

went into device manager, selected my video card and chose "update drivers" from there. I let it do it's thing and download and install whatever files it needed, then restarted the computer.

now the display settings is stuck in the lowest possible resolution. can't change it to regular (1280x1024) or any other resolution for that matter. can't even enable my secondary monitor ( when i click " identify ", it identifies both monitors as "1" (primary )

i've tried uninstalling the old drivers from control panel, restart, then install drivers again, and same issue again.

there's no nvidia control panel settings in the taskbar anymore as well so i'm not sure what's up with that, looked in the computer directory for the .exe to start it up manually but to no avail.

Now I've reverted back to the original xp drivers for the video card but obviously it's not performing to it's full potential without the new drivers.

any insights/suggestions, they're all welcome, I definitely need the help

10-30-2009, 11:15 AM	#1
illicitstylz Banned (ABWS) Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Richmond Posts: 5,138 Thanked 2,216 Times in 510 Posts Failed 852 Times in 132 Posts	new nVidia drivers screwed up my settings Winxp x64 nVidia 7600 GT everything is working fine until l4d2 told me I should update my drivers for my video card. went into device manager, selected my video card and chose "update drivers" from there. I let it do it's thing and download and install whatever files it needed, then restarted the computer. now the display settings is stuck in the lowest possible resolution. can't change it to regular (1280x1024) or any other resolution for that matter. can't even enable my secondary monitor ( when i click " identify ", it identifies both monitors as "1" (primary ) i've tried uninstalling the old drivers from control panel, restart, then install drivers again, and same issue again. there's no nvidia control panel settings in the taskbar anymore as well so i'm not sure what's up with that, looked in the computer directory for the .exe to start it up manually but to no avail. Now I've reverted back to the original xp drivers for the video card but obviously it's not performing to it's full potential without the new drivers. any insights/suggestions, they're all welcome, I definitely need the help