Windows 7?

[Imp]

Same resolution (1680x1050)both modes.

No your not AFAIK Camo games do not support that resolution so the monitor has to reset to the diffrent resolution. If you ALT TAB out of the game back to desktop screen probably goes very briefly black as changes resolution. If you now go back to the game the same happens but in your case graphics are probably corrupted as going to desktop reset to 59Hz.

The important point here I think is what is causing the refresh change hence why I asked what your desktop is refreshing at. Something is causing the discrepancy & as I assume you are checking changing the refresh rate while in your desktop I would say the error lies with windows unless everybody with problems are nvidia users in which case its there fault. Its fair to assume it is not the games fault as if you set to 60 before switch to it the game does not corrupt the setting & runs fine so you may have solved a mystery

As a thought for team nvidia or microsoft might be cheating as thats a diffrent ratio most were based on 640x480 ratio of 1.33 or close but thats 1.6 or maybe switching between to greatly varying ratios is causing the refresh error somehow out of my depth

[Imp]

Said out of my depth cant see ratios having anything to do with it, mine is an ATI card but had a quick look & can do some strange resolutions like 1024x480 so ratio is not a problem 1680x1050 is a native widescreen setting. Also looked at my video card & if access it directly not through properties does indeed support some strange refresh rates inc 59Hz. Still do not understand why his switches back to 59 from 60 once he has set it though. It could not possibly be Win7 hijacking stuff for its own purposes my card is default installed in the dreaded program files folder. I am jesting here but .....

[dwinings]

Originally Posted by Imp

Said out of my depth cant see ratios having anything to do with it, mine is an ATI card but had a quick look & can do some strange resolutions like 1024x480 so ratio is not a problem 1680x1050 is a native widescreen setting. Also looked at my video card & if access it directly not through properties does indeed support some strange refresh rates inc 59Hz. Still do not understand why his switches back to 59 from 60 once he has set it though. It could not possibly be Win7 hijacking stuff for its own purposes my card is default installed in the dreaded program files folder. I am jesting here but .....

Well the odd thing is when I check the refresh using the monitor control settings it says its at 60.1 Hz but Windows says 59 Hz, but as I said, I have no problems with Windows at that setting and no problems with WinSPWW2 and WinMBT when I set it to 60Hz so I'm satisfied. I just thought that other people might try it if they can't get them to work any other way, I couldn't. This computer dual boots (actually quad if you count Debian and Fedora) into 7 and XP, but changing to 60 Hz is much quicker then shutting down and booting into XP and I get full screen and I don't have to use XP compatibility or use a virtual machine. My SPWW2 resolution is 800x600, but that's fine for me too.