dirt 2

Are you overclocking anything? A pc I built 5 years ago would crash randomly in games because I tweaked the FSB up higher than I should have. The computer would run fine outside of trying to runresource demanding games. Might be a ram issue? Usually you see artifacting and other problems when your card is overheating. I know with nividia, and most likely ATI as well, you will often get a display driver error with the crash if your GPU is failing.

it seems like that error is generic and will occur for a number of reasons. I have heard from people that it was a faulty GPU and replacing it fixed the issue. Several people had it occur with various drivers. I currently have this error occur in fallout 3 at random times, sometimes it will go a couple hours before crashing. I switched to older drivers and it went away. Oddly, I have played probably 80 hours worth of gaming between dragon age, batman aa, ME1, and Dirt 2 and never hadthat display driver error with the 195 and 196 drivers. It only seems to crash on fallout 3 for me, but I do have several mods running that my contribute to it, but older drivers with all my mods work fine.

I have a GTX285 with the latest nvidia driver and experience no stuttering in UE3 games. I have played through bioshock, batman aa, and now playing through ME1. I have vista64 as well. I think I have noticed slight stuttering before when v-sync is enabled in some games. Your card should be plenty good enough to run those games without stutter. I did have slight stutter in batman aa with the physics enabled to medium, but it wasn't that bad, no stutter with out physics.

On a 32in tv, the difference between 720p and 1080p is pretty small when watching movies. I am not sure if that would be the same effect when playing pc games on it though.

I currently have been using my 32in720p tv for gaming and have been happy with the results. I have recently been thinking about switching to a 32 or 37in tv that is 1080p. I was wondering if I would see a meaningful increase in quality by running 1920x1080 vs the 1360x768 I am using now. I sit about 5ft away from the tv right now. I have a monitor that is 1650x1080 and I can see a difference between that andmy currenttv, but I'm sitting a couple feet from the monitor vs the tv. I have a BFGGTX285OC, soI would think I would be good at running max/mostly high settings for a good year or so at that resolution. Maybe would have to turn off things like AA. Any feedback on this would be appreciated.

This all seems kind of weird. I have 2 HDTVs, a cheap vizio and a 52in samsung. I don't have to install or set anything up special to connect them to my PCs. Here are the last things I can think of that I would try.

1. Forget the tv for now. Connect a monitor, preferably the VGA connectionsince itreplicates the tv,and see if crysis loads.

2. Verify your tvs supported resolutions over VGA. You need to verify 1360x768 is accepted.

3. If your tv supports 1360x768, then set the crysis video settings to 1360x768 and save settings. If your tv's native res is 1366x768, it will still work with 1360x768 if 1366x768 is not available.

4. Exit out of crysis to your desktop. Set your desktop res to what ever your tv supports( 1360x768 ). Disconnect monitor and connect tv, make sure your tv is set to the correct mode, VGA or PC etc... .

5. At this point, hopefully you see your desktop and your tv displays the res you set it for. Then try crysis.

Keep in mind that your tv should work exactly like a computer monitor when connected by VGA. There is nothing special you should have to do. If you get everything working with the PC monitor, then the tv should literally be just plug and play. I did not have to do anything special to my TV to get it to work.

Please check my previous post, I added more stuff. I think your windows automatically installed VGA drivers, you need to install your Nvidia drivers via cd or downloaded off internet. It shouldn't hurt anything installing over the generic VGA drivers.

I have a GTX285 and have both my monitor and tv connected. I have a 32in viziotv connected via VGA. My card has a simple adapter that I put on the back DVI connection that allows it to run over a VGA cable. You mention a converter, Are you using a special converter box or something to change your digital DVI signal to VGA? Can you get the desktop to display on you tv? My tv litteraly acts just like a regular monitor when connected. Hopefully you just have the game set at an incompatible res and just need to change and save with a regular monitor. I know tvs work fine with crysis because it works for me. I can play it at 1360x768 on my tv.

Edit: Sounds like you may need to install the drivers as mentioned above, you should have the Nvidia control panel available when you right click. Windows vista will automatically install generic VGA drivers when you boot up in safe mode. For desktop purposes it works fine, but not for gaming. Simply install the Nvidia drivers when you boot up normally. Get everything worked out first with a regular PC monitor, then plug in your TV after you verify the monitor works fine.