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My son has just bought a new game - dawn of war - which wouldn't run due to an old driver for the grahics card (nvidia geforce4 4200 go - fitted in a dell latitude).
After getting no luck from nvidia - "you have to ask dell" - I managed to get the latest driver from dell. ON installing it (having removed the original first) it re-set the default resolution to 1680 by 1050 pixels. On running VA RPC-SE I now get an error message saying that the screen resolution is non-standard, followed by loads of flashes and a final crash!
On re-setting to 1028 by 1024, although VA works fine I get an error message saying that the resoultion is not the best and tat everything will be fuzzy: which it is - like looking through vaseline smeared on the screen.
I contacted dell but their technicians were baffled!
Any ideas for getting VA to work in the bigger resolution?
ps The game works now, but only in fuzzy mode!

I'm guessing that you have some sort of widescreen LCD monitor and that the messages are being generated by the monitor or the display driver rather than by VA.

Your best option for now is to:
start va in a windows 1280x1024 mode
switch to running in a window by using alt+enter
Go to Tools/Options and select the Display tab
Untick "Allow windows to change mode"
Ok everything.
Quit VA
Switch back to 1680x1050 mode so it looks good.
Restart VA and it willl always use your currently configured mode, centering the VA window and surrounding it with a black border. This looks a bit silly in low resolution RISC OS modes but should be fine for 1280x1024

Graeme

It worked better than you predicted!
I have a full screen desktop (1024X768 in 256 colours) without any black surround!
Thanks for your help
Richard
ps the PC game meanwhile will stillonly run in fuzzy mode! The magic of Windows eh?!!!