I’ll start off by saying that up until yesterday, i was running Brink fine on my laptop, with all graphics settings turned down, except for medium textures, with 1024x576 fullscreen resolution. Yesterday after the patch, the particle effects were replaced by black boxes, but that problem was solved by updating my NVIDIA NVS 3100M driver. Unfortunately, after updating my driver, 1024x576 was no longer available as a fullscreen resolution, and running it at a larger resolution results in poor framerates. Even changing the config file to that as a custom resolution just makes it windowed, but without window frame around it.
It seems i have 3 options: run it with good performance but black box particle effects obstructing my view
Play it my 16:9 resolution full screen with a poor framerate
Play it at a lower 4:3 resolution but with black bars on the sides.
Anyone have any idea why updating my drivers would make 1024x576 no longer available as a full screen resolution?