XNVIEW resets graphic card resolution from 32 bits to 8 bits

[lordish]

For some strange reason my copy of XNview changes the bit setting of my graphics card from 32 bits maximum to 8 bits minimum. I have updated all the video drivers and XNview still does it. I even went from version 1.25 to the latest version. No change.

I am using a NVIDIA GeFORCE 6150.le

[Clo]

lordish

Hello ! XnView itself is quite unable to do that, I guess.
Hence, I assume that some short cut¦s you are using in XnView is¦are stollen by your graphic card stuff.

• That's not rare. Please, try to disable all short cuts in your graphic card configuration
(often, one can do so with a right-click on the GC-icon in the Tray >> Local menu) and tell us whether the defect disappears…

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[xnview]

For some strange reason my copy of XNview changes the bit setting of my graphics card from 32 bits maximum to 8 bits minimum. I have updated all the video drivers and XNview still does it. I even went from version 1.25 to the latest version. No change.

Xnview change your graphic card settings??? When you start it?

[Guest]

lordish

:
• That's not rare. Please, try to disable all short cuts in your graphic card configuration
(often, one can do so with a right-click on the GC-icon in the Tray >> Local menu) and tell us whether the defect disappears…
Claude
Clo

Well I don't have XnView in my tray but I used the shortcut on my desktop. I right clicked and chose Run As. I set it as the user I was running and applied it. Xnview turned my desktop blue (I had a jpg up there) and locked up. I had to go back and reset all my desktop settings. I returned to normal operation and it was back to resetting my video card to 8 bits. (head scratched vigorously)

lordish

[Guest]

For some strange reason my copy of XNview changes the bit setting of my graphics card from 32 bits maximum to 8 bits minimum. I have updated all the video drivers and XNview still does it. I even went from version 1.25 to the latest version. No change.

Xnview change your graphic card settings??? When you start it?

Yes.

lordish

[xnview]

Well I don't have XnView in my tray but I used the shortcut on my desktop. I right clicked and chose Run As. I set it as the user I was running and applied it. Xnview turned my desktop blue (I had a jpg up there) and locked up. I had to go back and reset all my desktop settings. I returned to normal operation and it was back to resetting my video card to 8 bits. (head scratched vigorously)

It's impossible that xnview change your settings, you should have a OS settings... You use Xp?

[Clo]

lordish

Hello !

Well I don't have XnView in my tray but I used the shortcut on my desktop. I right clicked and chose Run As. …

• That isn't the point at all ! I meant the icon of your graphic card in the Tray !
- If it isn't there, use the configuration of that card, it might be available somewhere…

KR
Claude
Clo

[Guest]

lordish

Hello !

Well I don't have XnView in my tray but I used the shortcut on my
- If it isn't there, use the configuration of that card, it might be available somewhere…

I have been doing that. I go to my graphics card management program to reset the resolution every time Xnview resets the resolution. However I installed the graphics card management program BECAUSE of this problem and it didn't solve it.

I do run WindowsXP and it's up to date. My guess is, and its only a guess, that one of 2 programs I have (the other's Xnews, a news reader the other's Xview) is changing a value in my registry and I don't know which value or why it's being changed.

lordish

[Clo]

lordish (Guest)

Hello !

• Since you know where is the configuration of you graphic card, and to sum up the issue,
please answer my suggestion above :
- Are there keyboard short cuts configurable by there ?
- If so, did you try to disable them (one by one or all at once) ?
- What is the short cut to switch the display to 8 BPP (if existing) ?

• Neither using XnView for more than a decade, nor here in the forum for > three years
I heard about such an issue or suffered it…

- But that's very usual -in example- with Total Commander, some graphic cards (and some other softs, more rarely)
steal short cuts, we have a lot of threads reporting such a hitch in the TC forum…

KR
Claude
Clo