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I wanted to use Celestia in full screen mode but it switches the monitor refresh rate to 60Hz. I can see the refresh pulse and it is annoying to the point of hurting.

Is there any way of getting round this?

My Celestia version is 1.3.0, I am using WinXP and have an NVIDIA card.

All help is much appreciated.

Everyone seems to be getting this problem.
I've got XP pro
384 megs Random Access Memory
and a 64 meg Ge Force MX/MX 400 card.
Full screen runs smoothly always on 85 hertz. Same as all my other suff.
Wonder why I don't get problems...

One set of problems is caused by Celestia believing what Windows thinks are the permitted resolutions and refresh rates for your display device.

If the INF file for your display says it can only do 1280x768x60Hzx16K colors, that's all Celestia will do, even if you've told Windows to ignore those limits and run your display faster, at a higher resolution, and with more colors.

Might this be what's happened?

i normaly dont run full screen just maximised windowed and i have no problems at 85 hrts and 32 bit on win xp
it dose sound like the ini file is the prob.

on xp and nividas driver check this
r-click the desktop background
l-click properties
l-click settings
L-click advanced
L-click (your card name - mine is gforce2/mx
and then on the dropdown menue on the left
L-click refresh rate overides
and look at the check boxes

The thing is I'm using a desktop resolution of 1024x768x32 bit colour at 85Hz and that's fine.

I switch to full screen mode in Celestia, specifying 1024x768x32, but it switches to 60Hz.

The Advanced box lists 1024x768x32, 85Hz as a valid mode. The format of my card tab does not have the drop down menu box though.

is there a green tab on the left

click it and get this