Resalution issues

**caravel** · 05-12-2010, 11:27

Welcome Just Learnin,

That's a very useful bit of information, thanks for sharing it. Those with the resolution issues should definitely try this.

**Just Learnin** · 05-12-2010, 15:19

Thanks for the welcome! Hope it helps others as I could find no solution elsewhere after much searching.

I should mention that I also had to disable AI in the Catalyst Control Center for the HD 4870 X2 or else I was getting a split screen effect. I also used the "button fix" with Medieval Total War to get around the well known CTD issue. I have a son that should be thanked for this"fix" though as he is obsessed with the games and prefers the ages played out in the early ones. He tortur... erm implored me to make it work.

**caravel** · 05-12-2010, 16:20

Originally Posted by Just Learnin

I also had to disable AI in the Catalyst Control Center for the HD 4870 X2 or else I was getting a split screen effect.

That's interesting, I've never seen any improvements in MTW from changing Catalyst AI settings. Where did the splitscreen effect occur? Was it vertical or horizontal? Garbled colours?

**Just Learnin** · 05-12-2010, 18:16

Originally Posted by Asai Nagamasa

That's interesting, I've never seen any improvements in MTW from changing Catalyst AI settings. Where did the splitscreen effect occur? Was it vertical or horizontal? Garbled colours?

I was getting 2 identical images a little apart from each other which would shimmer/flicker and yes they were distorted or as you say garbled. Someone suggested it may be due to the 4870 X2 being a dual GPU card and they said disabling AI disables Crossfire/Multi GPU??? No idea really why it worked but in this case it did, I didn't have to disable Multi-GPU with the GTX 295 though.

I also tried to run Medieval and Shogun Total War on a 9800GX2 graphics card but was unsuccessful.

**Just Learnin** · 05-13-2010, 15:48

Sorry Asai Nagamasa I meant to say the images were side by side not above and below each other with the HD 4870 X2 before I disabled AI in the Catalyst Control Center.

**Raz** · 05-13-2010, 15:52

Your advice works for me on my system, Just Learnin. It should be noted that I didn't have to disable Catalyst CC or use the Button-Fix for it to work, only the fiddling under the Boot section in MS Config.

I can only tell you that my thanks to you, Just Learnin, stretch infinitely.

**Just Learnin** · 05-13-2010, 17:05

Originally Posted by Raz

Your advice works for me on my system, Just Learnin. It should be noted that I didn't have to disable Catalyst CC or use the Button-Fix for it to work, only the fiddling under the Boot section in MS Config.

I can only tell you that my thanks to you, Just Learnin, stretch infinitely.

Excellent! So glad to hear I didn't beat my head against the wall for naught.

Thanks for the feedback Raz, may you too go forth and prosper.

May I ask what video card are you using?

Has anyone actually tried just yanking sticks of RAM from their PC and running it with only 2GB installed in Vista or Win7?