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Old 03-02-2008, 04:09 PM   #21 (permalink)
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i generally rename the package to something short like nvidia-XXXX.run as that makes it much easier to execute.
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true but if you have more than one version stored like i generally do it's much more readable than the long string nvidia gives it.
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I sort of found a fix to my issue, I went to change the screen res to what I want and checked the make this my default resolution or something like that then restarted and the res went to that resolution that I set and is now staying that way
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