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64 bit Nvidia driver for GE Force 9500GT that goes to full screen

Asked by qz8dsw in Windows 7, Video Cards, Drivers

Tags: Nvidia Full screen

Hi all,

I upgraded my Vista X32 install to Windows 7 X64. (Well not upgrade, but a wipe and re-install)
All went fine with the install and I'm quite happpy with Windows 7 except 1 thing.
My full screen 640x480 goame don't run.
Screen goes black (as if it's switched to full screen), but does nothing after that. No sound, some hard drive access, but thats it.
In that state I can't ALT-TAB, CTRL-ALT-DEL, get any response from windows itself baring seeing the hard drive light is flashing. The only thing I can do at this point is hit the reset button.

I have tried the latest Nvidia Driver, same problem, I've gone to ASUS (Actual video card manufacturer) and tried the driver from them (Which is an earlier Nvidia driver), still no go.
Switch the game to windowed mode and it works fine (I do note windows says it's reverting to windows basic colour scheme).
Boot into safe mode and the game plays in full screen 640x480 mode fine.
I have been digging and digging .

There are primarly childrens games, spore, spongebob, etc.
If it was a 32 bit app running under X64 then I'd expect safe mode to fail as well.
If it was NOT the Nvidia driver (hardware fault or the such) then once again it should fail in Safe mode as well.

This seems to be completely down to the driver.
I have managed ONCE to get it running changing my resolution to a lower one to the recommended one and altering the shortcut so it runs in compatability mode with visual themes turned off.
Although it is a way around it it is not a nice one (And in my playing I've forgotten the correct resolution).

Does anyone know of a better way to fix this?
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