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Feeling a little nostalgic, I dug out my copy of the original Command and Conquer (C&C95 Edition). I installed it, following the instructions Westwood provided to get it to work on Windows XP (I was quite surprised that they still support such an old game). The problem I'm having is that when I open the game, I get a message in the center of my monitor that says:

OUT OF FREQUENCY RANGE

(Three colors here, red stripe, green stripe, blue stripe)

Attention:
Out of Range

H: 29.1KHz V: 69.9Hz

The strange thing is that when I hit PRINTSCREEN on my keyboard to try to take a screenshot of the message and then pasted it into Paint, the image there was the Westwood logo, what I would see when the game loaded normally. Is there a way to adjust my settings/monitor to get the game to work? Or am I out of luck here?

Just wonder: have you applied this patch?

Coincidently, I somethimes have the same thing when i start up Rome Total War

It looks like C&C is trying to set your monitor to a refresh rate higher than it can support and your monitor is going into warning mode.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:Just wonder: have you applied this patch?

Yes.

phongn wrote:It looks like C&C is trying to set your monitor to a refresh rate higher than it can support and your monitor is going into warning mode.

My refresh rate is 75 Hertz. I can go down to 60 or up to 85. Should I try changing it or is this something I don't want to touch?

acesand8s wrote:

phongn wrote:It looks like C&C is trying to set your monitor to a refresh rate higher than it can support and your monitor is going into warning mode.

My refresh rate is 75 Hertz. I can go down to 60 or up to 85. Should I try changing it or is this something I don't want to touch?

As long as the refresh rate is supported by your monitor, then it's okay. IIRC problem comes when you try to set the refresh rate higher than your monitor can handle (I had the same problem around 1996 when setting up that shiny Matrox Mystique card using pretty old TVM monitor, so I had to tone the refresh rate down to 60Hz). To be safe, though, you may want to change it one step at a time.

However, since phongn said apparently C&C tries to set your refresh rate higher than supported, I guess you would need a new monitor. Most today's monitor could support pretty high refresh rate, mind you.

But, probably it wouldn't hurt to try.

Um, no, advising him to get a new monitor is not exactly the best solution.

God, I'm such a fucking moron. I just got a new computer (~ 2 weeks ago). When I first had the problem, I didn't bother checking my video driver, assuming that since my computer was so new, the drivers were up-to-date. Well, they weren't. So, I updated them and it works fine now. Thanks for the help.

Thread locked, then.