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My problem with my system idle process is gone, thanks in large part by the suggestion of Big Ben to update my drivers; it still hiccups, but not as much.

Onto my latest and greatest dilemna.

I play a game called Day of Defeat, and perhaps some of you have heard it, maybe you haven't, but no worries. You could say I play it pretty avidly, downloading things to customize it and whatnot, however, whenever I go to run DOD.exe, my monitor goes blank, and I get the message "Input Signal Out of Range".

Now, I know this deals with resolution and/or refresh rate of my monitor. The resolution in the game was set at 1024x768, just as my desktop is. Still doesn't work. I try running it in 640x480, no help. I tried fixing the refresh Hz rate of my monitor and it still does not help.

I uninstalled it, reinstalled it, installed it into a different directory, and still I get the same error message from my monitor.

I have heard that I might need to go into my registry and manually change the settings for what my system does when the game is run.

Any suggestions?

-Thanks in advance.

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Short, practical addendum for the thread: the monitor message "Input Signal Out of Range" when DOD.exe launches means the game is switching the display to a mode the monitor (or its driver) cannot sync to — usually a resolution or refresh-rate the monitor does not support. The earlier driver update (credit to @BigBen) was a useful step, and the community notes from and pointing at refresh/safe-mode are on the right track. (makeuseof.com)

A fast, low-risk fix is to force the GoldSrc engine (Day of Defeat) to start in a window or at a safe resolution via launch parameters supported by the engine. Example command to add to a Steam "Set Launch Options" box or to the shortcut target:

-window -w 800 -h 600

This forces windowed mode at 800x600 so the monitor never gets switched into an unsupported fullscreen mode; the GoldSrc command-line flags are documented on Valve’s developer pages. (developer.valvesoftware.com)

If launch options are not convenient, reset or override the mod’s saved video settings: back up and then rename the mod config (the cfg folder under the Day of Defeat install, e.g. dod\cfg\config.cfg), allow the engine to recreate defaults, or place safe commands in an autoexec.cfg and use the engine's exec/autoconfig behavior to apply them. Those cfg locations and the autoexec workflow for DoD are standard for the mod. (dodbits.com)

Additional checks/cautions: confirm the monitor’s supported modes in its OSD and match Windows/GPU control-panel refresh and resolution to a conservative setting before launching; use -freq only if the monitor actually lists that rate. Keep a backup of any .cfg files before editing — reinstalling the game often does not remove per-mod config files, so manual reset or using -autoconfig is the reliable route. (makeuseof.com)

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Have you tried 60, 70 and 75hz at 1024 by 768?

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try to load the game into safe mode, the resolution the game is trying to use isnt aviaible for your monitor / video driver combo

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