why wont the resolution change

[Frosty2181]

its defaulted at 800x600, but when i try and change it the screen goes black and it wont come back unless i ctrl alt delete, and nothing happends, any one know?

[mortis]

It might help if we knew more about your system...

[Frosty2181]

amd athlon dual core 4000+, X1300 pro 256 mb, 2 gigs of ram

[mortis]

Driver versions? Also - what monitor, aspect ratio, etc...

[etconfigs]

open console put:

r_mode 5


then

vid_restart


Thats example for a 17" monitor would use

[M|keTmnT]

maybe you are trying to force a res that your monitor doesn't support or have a refresh rate locked.

r_displayrefresh is the refresh rate cvar

r_mode is the resolution cvar

Have a play aruond with them, you may need to use vid_restart when testing resolutions.

[Fmofdeath]

You need a new Catalyst for the ATI driver. I read to update while you downloaded off somewhere. Driver would be the best thing for now.

[Frosty2181]

kay well i updated the driver, it did need updating, but now when i try and start ETQW a window pops up saying it failed to initialize and that its closing, it says the current video card/videodriver combination does not support GL_ARB_occlusion_query

[Anarchy]

Which Driver Version did you install ? It should be Catalyst 7.9, that's the latest.

[Frosty2181]

yep , i dunno what installed b4 but i got 7.9 and it works fine, thanks for the help guys