GG Catalyst Control Center.

Was trying to use CCC to change resolution- monitor told me it was out of range and the CCC didn't revert it after 30 seconds like most things do.. Oh no.

Afterwards launched in safe mode, tried to use the windows built in resolution changer to set it to 1080x1920 and as it turns out the CCC hard set it do the top option was whatever CCC had it set to... So now im locked out of safemode.

brb killing self

(Also if you have any idea as to how I could fix it that'd be great, Microsoft support is swamped and I've tried to get it to work for 2 hours now.. :L )

When I change settings in the CCC I then need to quickly restart the computer because that's the only way I know of preventing it from resetting whatever I did.

No joke.

Not sure what you mean by that, so restarting just set the resolution in stone? Yikes.

I'm thinking about trying to plug in another GPU I have.. But it's AMD as well so I'm not sure if it'll just do the same thing or not... Plus I guess it'd also mean I couldn't change the other ones settings anyway.

Edit: I might just try to get an external hard drive with windows 7 on it and boot with safe mode on that one, seems feasible I guess? (I have a hard drive with windows 10 on it, but my computer refused to boot with windows 10 for whatever reason...)

Does anyone know if there's any way to change the safe mode resolution via the command prompt? :L

I don't know about changing it, but if you plug in a second screen, you should be able to access things, albeit in a weird way. And I swore CCC had the 15 second dialogue like most screen resolution annoyances.

In what way is it wierd? =o

I'll try to see about getting amother monitor. XP

The second monitor won't become the primary, so you still could be blind on the one in which the window pops up, but at least you can have a chance this way.

You sure it'd work like that with the setting having been changed via the CCC? Or do you mean I should boot up in safe mode? Does safe mode have the driver support for multiple monitors? X3

Windows display drivers are built into the kernel I believe, otherwise how could you even install it! Silly Squishy. I'm only guessing as to how exactly it'd work with CCC being borked. Something else I would suggest is that if its not a laptop, and if it has integrated graphics, disable/remove your PCIe graphics adapter and use the integrated crap to uninstall CCC.

It's a desktop but sadly I dont believe it has integrated graphics. D=

Do you know your CPU model? And motherboard model?

ok so I'm going to suggest the windows restore point. that may work

It would except I don't have one -w-

This computer is previously owned, they must have disabled it.

Just gonna backup the hard drive and fresh install windows, not worth the effort to fix it. I've spent the past 2 or so days working on this non-stop.

i couldn't applaud more.

windows install should only ever be a month old max. people complain way too much about the time it takes to reinstall, it's really overrated but it just doesn't weigh in the balance compared to how good of an anti-virus this technique is and how much performance gains you get.

atta

I'm a bit late to this, but why are you using CCC to control your resolution?

Control Panel / Settings (depending on your Windows version) handles this far better.

Wanted to do something to see what it'd do, was just for fun. Didn't work out for me, won't be messing with it in the future. I used the force resolution setting to set it to a 5:4 res. I thought It should work as the monitor should be capable of displaying the amount of pixels only stretched like how 4:3 works out.

As a general recommendation I recommend everybody fucks with CCC and / or the nVidia equivalent as little as possible because it tends to break **** in unforseen ways. This has been my general experience doing unofficial tech support for various games for years.

In my (personal) experience, CCC also seems to be less reliable, but then again I really don't rate AMD in general these days (except as a cheap CPU provider, and even then I recommend Intel despite the cost).

The problem with different aspect ratios is that it actually changes the amount of pixels that your OS (or whatever's delegating the draw call; it could be a game engine) is expecting to draw. Some aspect ratios differ in resolution by a matter of less than ten pixels. So it can quite easily break stuff, especially if you're forcing it on from GPU-controlling software.

You need to use the 'low resolution mode' on startup to override the screen settings in CCC...

http://www.7tutorials.com/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10

Only issue, you'll probably need to use a recover CD to access the safe mode options if your machine has an SSD...

Used the 800x600 startup mode already and was able to get to the sign in area, but after signing in to my user it gave me the monitor is out of reach error.

That's really strange. What type of monitor are you using btw? If it's something like display port you can put it into a different output should correct things (as it'l identify it as a 'new' screen).