| Did Jedi Academy kill my monitor? | |
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Revler - Student |
A few days ago my fairly new monitor simply stopped working. Some important piece that controls the colors and more, it seems, died. Then, I remembered a few times when my computer froze (never happens), and my monitor refresh rate went to 60 automatically. The first time that happenned I didn´t notice and had a headache.. that was a few months ago. Lately, I have been playing on lugormod T2_trip maps, and that´s when I had many lock ups with refresh rate change. It never happenned while I was in other servers, as far as I recall. Just coincidence I guess, but I don´t know. With my gone monitor situation, I started using an older one I had today, and I already got two crashes. In, the latest one, I was playing in the academy server, and when I joined the t2_trip one, the computer immediately froze as I joined it, and again, refresh rate at 60 after reboot as usual. This is a scary situation. I'm wondering if the reason why a decent monitor broke down so fast is because something in Jedi academy, combined with my Radeon is causing it. I searched the net but didn´t find anything definitive. All I know is that Vsync + radeon gives problems in a few games like Jedi Academy and Doom. But since I never had any problems with other games, and since I don´t want to lose 2 monitors and stay without a computer for who knows how long during my vacations, I'm afraid to play JA again  I will try searching more, if anyone has any info on this please let me know. This post was edited by Revler on Dec 24 2005 07:39am. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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Yoinking up the refresh rate or resolution on monitors that don't support them can kill the monitor. Its more likely your video card driver than the game doing it. Update your drivers and check your drivers to see if you're forcing a refresh rate or something. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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SaZ - Student 
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drivers for motherboard and its chipsets plays a big role too, tho dunno about its role on destroying monitors  _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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Revler - Student |
From ATI site: Jedi Knight - crashes/reboots when in-game graphics settings are set to High Quality This issue affects the following configurations: § CATALYST 4.2 § Jedi Knight When Jedi Knight is launched, the application will hang/reboot the system when the High Quality Graphics setting is selected. I use version 5.something. Regardless, I don´t think that high settings is the problem.. because of the reboot combined with the refresh rate change. Virtual sync is one option that limits FPS depending on your refresh rate, or something along those lines.. so I think it´s what been causing the trouble. I'll try turning it off and see how it goes. If maps like t2_trip could "trigger" the problem, or are forcing the monitor in a way it hurts itself, I wouldn´t know why. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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As a lot of people say, Jedi Academy isn't really a role-playing game. I wouldn't be surprised if big maps, like SP maps, screwed some people's computers up. |
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Revler - Student |
No, the monitor really died. They are waiting for the piece to arrive by mail so they can fix it. I'm just not sure exactly what the piece was for. |
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Nero - Student 
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have you tried to connect your monitor to another pc? It sounds more like the software of your video card is malfunctioning than like a monitor just dying. _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? |
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