Nvidia 9600GT Problem

[Don]

I've posted my problem to a couple of support groups and so far I
haven't been able to solve my problem, at least not completely.
Recently, meaning a couple days ago I upgraded my PC's video card to a
Nvidia 9600GT series card from an ATI X1600. I am running a fully up to
date version of Windows XP Professional. I uninstalled the ATI drivers
and other related software before I switched cards. I then installed
the Nvidia Forceware software. I also reinstalled the Viewsonic driver
for my VP2330 flat panel display. Viewsonic recommends for best results
to run the monitor at a resolution of 1920 by 1200. I did just that
when using the ATI video card although it wouldn't work in DVI-D mode.
Now when I set the resolution to 1920 by 1200 the font rendering has
problems. Rather than having black text, the text displays in a
multitude of colors. This is also true for text displayed in white, or
any other color that I've tried for that matter. Activating cleartext
has helped somewhat making text more legible, but I haven't been able to
fix the text color problem. If I run the monitor at 1600 by 1200
everything works as it should. Has anyone come across this sort of
problem before? And can it be fixed? Or is this a compatibility issue?

Thanks

 

[Sirtokalott]

Saw this article which may support the theory of a compatability issue.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/viewsonic_vp2330wb

Have you tried the screen configuration utilities in the advanced nVidea
control panel

 

[Don]

I read the article and things do make sense. I let the guy who sold me
this system select the monitor just because I had such good luck with
the 21 inch Viewsonic CRT. It really was an excellent monitor. This
monitor does work at 1920*1200 because the ATI video card had no problem
running it at that resolution. The problem was the monitor didn't work
in DVI-D mode at all once the ATI driver took control from the Windows
generic driver. And sometimes the monitor wouldn't work in DVI-SUB
either and I'd have to shut the machine down and start over again.
Perhaps a subsequent release of the ForceWare driver will correct the
problem.