GG Catalyst Control Center.

I think it's either an LCD or LED monitor, leaning on LED. 16:9 at 1080x1920.

Ok what type of connection does it use to connect to the PC? Do you have any adaptors or alternative cables that would allow you to connect it to a different output on your graphics port?

Final thought, does your machine have an integrated GPU as well as the discreet, in which case could you connect to that to help get the settings corrected?

Using a VGA, but need to use a VGA to DVI connecter as my graphics card (an AMD HD9900 series) does not have a VGA port and I don't have an integrated card on my CPU sadly, otherwise this'd been fixed quickly. ;-;

thats your problem... vga screens over an adaptor dont report info correctly to the gpu. Do you have access to a TV or something else you could hook your machine up to? Ideally needs something with a native digital connection such as HDMI or DP or even native DVI...

I've been using an adapter since I moved in, though I guess what you're saying is now that the resolution was changed to a bad one the problem formed?

And yeah I've got a TV in the room, it wasn't showing either of my computer's screens at the time.. But I'll check it out, might have been plugged incorreftly/ it's a bad HDMI cable.

Yeah what I mean is, because you have the adaptor in there, the computer won't receive the 'I support these display modes' message from the display. So, whilst you had it on normal settings it was fine *however* now you've changed it to an incompatible settings, CCC isn't getting the message back to tell it there's a problem

I've done a lot of work with multi screens on AMD gpu's (CCC can do some crazy swish things with 6 screens off a single card ), however adaptors are a total pain and can lead to things like this....

By the way, CCC does give the 15 second warning. I don't know what you did squishy, but you must have missed it.

I wouldn't trust the CCC really. As I said: At least for some settings (I think it was monitor color profile) it reversts it after some number of seconds, but without showing the "This setting will be reverted" window.

Apparently from what @cdrkf said I the VGA cable converter didn't send the information that it'd failed to CCC because of the converter, so maybe it didn't see the error and so didn't attempt to correct it?

Guess what @cdrkf got the thing to show up on the HDMI (TV) and am now reinstalling drivers for AMD CCC. x3

What do you think I'll have to do to set the monitor back up in CCC? It's connected- Still saying Out of Range of course. ;P

Nevermind, fixed it xD Woot!

well done @cdrkf

Glad you got it fixed Back in ye olden' days with CRT screens, you probably would have got away with your experiment (as a CRT would still attempt to display it, even if it was really blury or moving you could usually just about work out what was what to set it back again) LCD's on the other hand are really finiky and will only display a handful of modes and everything else just gives you 'out of range'.... wonders of modern technology eh!

I feel like it could have worked (a 5:4 red that is) if I'd been a bit more careful about what I was selecting, I selected a resolution that had more pixels than my screen. 1600x1400 iirc. That's on a 1080x1920 I couldn't get up to 1400 pixels so the monitor cried.

Play CS in 4:3 all the time. =)

Ew.

Nu u.

Having all I'd those extra horizontal pixels is so much better. The last game I played in 4:3 without any other options was probably Dark Orbit (not the crappy MMO) or Civ. II Test of Time.

You competitive types aren't right in the eyes. Doom level graphics and tiny screens. (Just to get super high FPS that offers minimal benefit after a few hundred. At least in planetside having 60+ fps let's you exploit the game physics.)

Nah 4:3 is because it stretches out the players, bigger target. =)

A square on a 4:3 monitor turns into a rectangle on a 16:9 native.

you could be using mouse acuracy tweaks to achieve exactly the same result

this is indeed completely asss-backwards

Mouse accuracy tweaks? Wat?

@websterx01

yeah LIKE I SAID


nothing that can't be accomplished with mouse precision