display is fuzzy with crt monitor

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Hi

I am French, my english isn’t very good.

I have a issue.

I play with a crt monitor, because my eyes are hypersensitive and I need play on crt monitor.

But sins of a solar empire is fuzzy on crt monitor.

I have tried with 3 differents computers and 3 crt monitors differents and the display is always fuzzy.

I need a solution.

Thanks.

 

My configuration :

Windows xp professional sp3

AMD athlon 64x dual core processor 6000+

Geforce 8800GTX 768Mb

2Go DDR2-667

My drivers are update.

 

technical
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Is your game also updated to the latest (1.05)?

I remember in one of the earlier builds it was going fuzzy sometimes.

Also, have you tried switching between full screen and windowed mode? (You can do this in the graphics options, the check box is below the resolution select)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yes my game is also updates to the latest 1.05

I have tried every video setting inside the game

but Thanks

 

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

hmmm 

im not familiar with crt monitors... but maybe... (a small maybe) did they add something in the beta? (1.095)

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I don't really think it's the game.. I mean, I'm pretty sure there are a good number of people still playing on CRTs but it's never come up before. It's more likely that it's some conflict between the monitor driver/windows/graphics card driver.

I remember IC saying that they did re-write some DirectX functions for Sins to make them more efficient, but beyond that their code depends on DX to do all the displaying, so..

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

 

MrBao,

what happens if you disable "anti-aliasing" in OPTIONS >> VIDEO?

does the problem persist?

 

thanks,

the Monk

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for every answers.

what happens if you disable "anti-aliasing" in OPTIONS >> VIDEO?

does the problem persist?
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yes the problem persist

I have tried every video settings.

I tried with several computer and crt monitor.

display is fuzzy everywhere : menu, writing, spaceship...

What bothers me is that the writing is fuzzy.

 

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

 

Are you by chance using an adapter to downgrade the DVI-out signal on your video card to the standard analogue VGA for the CRT monitor?

Have you tried using a different adapter?  They are pretty cheap and a "bad one" could easily be the issue here.

 

By the way, the anti-aliasing could be being "forced" by your driver settings (driver control panel).  Please check to make sure it's set to "off" or "application controlled".

thanks,

the Monk

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Thx a lot for your answer

Are you by chance using an adapter to downgrade the DVI-out signal on your video card to the standard analogue VGA for the CRT monitor?

Have you tried using a different adapter? They are pretty cheap and a "bad one" could easily be the issue here.
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I have tried with several adapter.

By the way, the anti-aliasing could be being "forced" by your driver settings (driver control panel). Please check to make sure it's set to "off" or "application controlled".
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I have tried but it is always fuzzy.

Maybe that the only solution is to play with monitor lcd.

I will play always with my crt monitor, it's fuzzy but I have played 8 hours today but

I don't get migraines, it's ok.

 

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Try e-mailing support@ironcladgames.com and see what they say. They might've had to deal with it before and know something we don't.