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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows 8 => Topic started by: Wuai Bel Ree on October 29, 2014, 08:16:27 PM

Title: Certain programs have lower resolution
Post by: Wuai Bel Ree on October 29, 2014, 08:16:27 PM

I've been holding out on upgrading to 8.1 since the last time I tried it, it messed up my screen resolution and sound quality even though all settings were the same. I reverted back to regular 8, but today my computer upgraded to 8.1 without any option to stop it. To my surprise, things didn't look low resolution like they did before...until I opened Steam (and other programs). Steam (and the other programs) looks like it's running at 1024x768 even though my resolution is 1920x1080. What is the freaking deal with 8.1? Jesus...I'm about ready to factory reset my computer AGAIN.

EDIT: I just updated my graphics driver and it didn't fix things. It just made Steam behave very strangely.

Title: Re: Certain programs have lower resolution
Post by: patio on October 30, 2014, 06:33:33 AM

Where are the drivers from ? ?

Title: Re: Certain programs have lower resolution
Post by: Wuai Bel Ree on October 30, 2014, 03:49:06 PM

NVIDIA GeForce.

Title: Re: Certain programs have lower resolution
Post by: patio on October 30, 2014, 03:55:27 PM

They should come from the card manuf. site...
I've seen this way too many times.

Title: Re: Certain programs have lower resolution
Post by: kyle_engineer on October 30, 2014, 05:28:57 PM

You also may want to uninstall/install again. Steam in particular is very graphics oriented, so it could be auto-configured to use the previous driver, despite updating. I'd try that just because it'll clean up any cache'd data.