gunny, maybe your eyes are just squiffy.[:D]

<t> As I type this I'm gazing at a 19" LCD monitor (LG M1917TM for the benefit of geeks[:D]) running at its native resolution of 1280x1024. I'm using the DVI socket to plug in my Nvidia 7900 GTX graphics card and the picture quality is fantastic. My advice to Joe would be to fins someone with a 19 ...

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Great Britian was not alone in WWI, as you yourself say. In a single year the US sent over 3 million men. I don't think that I would regard that number as a "Few". You may also want ot review the American offensive that was spearheaded by ...

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It was not until 4-500 years ago that English was even used as a written language. If you were educated and needed to write something down you used latin or french.
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That's not quite true. English began to ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: gunny<br/>
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The LG does have a couple different modes, movie and text. Also screen calibration, adobe has a cal program to set the brightness, contrast, and gamma. As marc said there is more to know for an LCD. I haven't experienced any weird resolutions ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck<br/>
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Oh, don't get me wrong too. I'm not saying that developers should not adapt to this. As should TV stations and finally start to broadcast 16:9 and HD only [;)]<br/>
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I'm in fact a big believer in flexible GUI design ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck<br/>
Check your monitors manual (or graphic card driver) to see how to set it to recognize aspect ratios and maintain them. All you people complaining about stretched graphics should first consult your manuals before you bitch about widescreen ...

<t> An LCD at its native resolution should look fine. My two desktop PCs run 19" monitors (one an LG and the other a Samsung) at 1280x1024 and most of the games look superb, the exceptions being some older games that don't support that res (few and far between in my collection) and a couple of ...

I've been looking into this lately and discovered that switching to a widescreen monitor meant playing around with the settings in some game files to get them to run properly - adjusting the fov value in the .ini file for example. I'm quite happy doing this but I'm not sure it's for everyone.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Sardonic<br/>
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I prefer the Auk. A General that is pretty much ignored by history.<br/>

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I have issues with Auchinleck. Although 1st Alamein was his victory he badly botched an excellent opportunity to crush Rommel's ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: morvwilson<br/>
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Lets try this again. I don't think that Monty was a bad general, just over rated.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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He won in North Africa but had three to one odds and his opponent was out of gas. (RN & RAF on ...

In my (feeble[:D]) defence I did look around but thought that the problem was elsewhere i.e. I thought I knew what I was doing.[X(]

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Cracked it! It was all in the details. The default folder for UV was C:/Program Files/Matrix Games/Uncommon Valour whilst the patch was installing to C:/Matrix Games/Uncommon Valour<SM sm="00000028.gif">[sm=00000028.gif]</SM><br/>
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Given that the other patches ...

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My two cents. Slim was one of the best commanders of WW2.

One of the few who deserves the epithet 'great'.

<t> Thanks for responding[:)], but I've tried installing the game onto a different system running a different version of XP and I get exactly the same result. It's not a game I play particularly often so it's no big deal if I have to go back to 2.41 but if there's a bug somewhere (other than in my ...

<t> Right. I've had UV (Just Play edition) for some time and had it happily patched to 2.41. However, after installing 2.50 it won't launch from the Game Menu (I get a 'Error: UV Data Not Found' message) and if I try from the Quick Start it launches but doesn't 'see' the patch. I get the same ...

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Patch over V2.3 with V2.5 and play.
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Well, I tried installing it over 2.41 and then over 2.3! Neither works.[:@] Each produces a 'Unable to find UV data' if I try to launch from the 'Game Menu' shortcut and if I ...

<t> It depends to an extent on what your graphics card is. Nvidia and ATI have control panels which allow you to tweak certain settings, although I'm no expert in exactly how to go about resolving your problem.[:)]However, the first thing I would do before delving in to these would be to update the ...

<t> Only found out about this recently. I really enjoyed 'Danger Forward' and 'Desert Rats' although I thought the latter had too few scenarios featuring 8th Army. Unlike some I found the interface intuitive to use and the deceptively simple gameplay compelling. I'd hope that Matrix would keep the ...