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Title: Nebulas Post by: ADuc on May 16, 2003, 05:27:53 PM Sometimes when my screen has a nebula, the nebula starts to turn into a bunch of lines and slow down the game until i have it off the screen.
Title: Nebulas Post by: Optec on May 16, 2003, 05:54:11 PM Hm.. this is a strange problem.. again ;-)
what OS do you use and what are your pc stats, if i may ask ;-) Title: Nebulas Post by: DOCa Cola on May 16, 2003, 06:10:58 PM sounds like a driver problem, either graphic card or maybe sound card. what graphic card&sound card are u using?
DOCa Cola Title: Nebulas Post by: dynamic on May 16, 2003, 10:43:57 PM Same here. Whenever I view a Nebula, everything will start to flash, and then sometimes everything would disappear and then reappear, and then after a while, the computer would freeze.
Title: Nebulas Post by: DOCa Cola on May 17, 2003, 09:10:08 AM ok, what graphic card&sound card and driver versions are you using?
DOCa Cola Title: Nebulas Post by: Gunrunner22 on May 18, 2003, 04:56:44 AM I don't have lines or things like that, but it does slow down pretty good when nebulas are on the screen and there is a big green square that floats around in the crystalist nebulas. It was the same in the 1.0 release too. :huh: I just thought I'd let everyone know :D . Still Great Mod.
WinXP AMD 1.6G 512MB DDR400 TNT2-M64 32 MEG :hmmm: Latest driver 44.03 Title: Nebulas Post by: DOCa Cola on May 18, 2003, 07:20:17 AM Quote I don't have lines or things like that, but it does slow down pretty good when nebulas are on the screen and there is a big green square that floats around in the crystalist nebulas. It was the same in the 1.0 release too. :huh: I just thought I'd let everyone know :D . Still Great Mod. uh, somehow your graphic card doesn't fit to your other components. i assume the problem is related to your graphic card. i had the same graphic card a few years ago and produced me some graphic errors sometimes. why don't you get a ti-4200, it's cheap, fit's to your other components and has good performanceWinXP AMD 1.6G 512MB DDR400 TNT2-M64 32 MEG :hmmm: Latest driver 44.03 DOCa Cola Title: Nebulas Post by: Optec on May 18, 2003, 10:12:28 AM Yes, it is your grafic card. The TNT2 isn't able to handle textures like we used for the nebulas quite well.. i will add low res textures in beta2, you should reduce the graficquality in the grafic option menu.
Title: Nebulas Post by: Gunrunner22 on May 18, 2003, 07:50:34 PM Yeah that's what i figured, just wanted to check thow thanks :D
Title: Nebulas Post by: dynamic on May 19, 2003, 12:23:53 AM Okay, this only happens to me when I view Crystalid (?) Nebulas, but not for Fluid Nebulas.
Title: Nebulas Post by: NieKnight on June 06, 2003, 01:18:50 PM your not the only one that happens to me as well!
Title: Nebulas Post by: Optec on June 06, 2003, 01:26:44 PM i'm checking the crytalid nebula files.. one moment please B)
Title: Nebulas Post by: Optec on June 06, 2003, 01:29:17 PM ok you have large green squares in your crystalid nebula?
Title: Nebulas Post by: Optec on June 06, 2003, 10:49:01 PM ok i have changed something in the nebula settings.. in the next beta you shouldn't see this error any more.. still i don't understand why this happens.. :huh:
Title: Nebulas Post by: Italicx on June 19, 2003, 04:10:51 PM hmm i think its defantly the TNT 2 cus i have 1 and in the crystalid nebula, has a green squere 2, but it dosnt really bother me that much, the other nebulars are fine, (i do run it in a low grapics setting)
Title: Nebulas Post by: goldentiger24 on June 21, 2003, 10:17:52 PM Here is a suggestion from a Nvidia Geforce 3 user (yeah, I can help out on a TNT2!). Anyways, Nvidia is known to make drivers that are nicer to the newer cards out there and not as nice with the older cards. Thus, if you have an Nvidia card, and you are running the latest drivers, that is most likely your problem! All in all, I downloaded a few different versions of Nvidia drivers and I only remember the results of my last drivers and my current ones. I do remember running drivers version 30.82, but I think I changed from those because of major display errors with one game, Medal of Honor. There is a lot of bad comments about the drivers version 40.72, but yet I was running those for a long time and decided I might as well change from those drivers to some new ones because a few games were having some display errors and besides I wanted to play around with some newer features. So, I am now running drivers version 43.51 and they are working well for me, however they tend to make other Geforce 3s not run that well.
The rundown is that if you have an older card then the newer the drivers you get, the worse your card performs and acts in games. Generally, you have to get drivers that are around your card's age. Any Nvidia driver can run any older Nvidia card (with a few rare exceptions) but running the card and running it well are two different things. All I can say is that you should ask around various video card forums and try out a few drivers for yourself until the visual problems go away. Everybody's video card is different (the boards being made by different companies... I think mine was made by Pinegroup) and everybody's setup is different. So start into the drivers at a few recomended driver version numbers and go on from there. I recommend you go to the site below for the specific drivers and some help in the forums (the forums seem a bit chaotic to me). Note, for some reason, that site is down today... so keep trying and I will keep you posted as to if the site reappears. I do know that there is some place in the forums which say what range of drivers (as in, version numbers) you should be running with your card and I'll link to that whenever they come back online. http://guru3d.com/ (http://guru3d.com/) Title: Nebulas Post by: DOCa Cola on June 22, 2003, 09:45:20 AM yea, there is nothing wrong with trying other video card version, but i recommend you don't try to use nothing before 3x.xx. but as nvidia uses their unified driver architecture it *should* work anyway :laugh:
DOCa Cola Title: Nebulas Post by: goldentiger24 on June 22, 2003, 06:33:21 PM Guru3d is back online. Here is some research.
the following is in relation to the TNT2 card Quote use the newest ones for more stability but if u wanna squeeze max performance of it use 2x.xx or 30.82 dets << See 3rd post down (http://www.guru3d.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=56410) >>The following person had MAJOR trouble with the 44.03 drivers although they are using a Geforce 4, however it may have been configuration issues and not driver trouble. << Read whole thread (http://www.guru3d.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=56088) >> Another Geforce 4 card, this one driver trouble with the 44.04 drivers, which is Creative's 44.03 drivers (thus, unofficial)... Quote Det. 44.04 - Getting odd texture mis-drawing.. This dont happen all the time, but its happening.. Have happens is, the textures look all like mis-draw in weird configs.. i cant explain it! This may help: A bill-board in a game, the texture wasnt done right and it looked like it was smashed... No its not a game feature =p Quote I would stay away from 44.03 drivers and above. After installing the 44.03 it cause my card to have snow effects and texture problems in game. << Read whole thread (http://www.guru3d.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=56200) >>In relation to the 44.03, apparently there is some issues with DirectDraw and these drivers... Quote These new drivers have a crap DirectDraw driver. << This quote is from somewhere on the second page (http://www.guru3d.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=55276) >>Games like Indiana Jones and the Emporer's Tomb and Silent Hill use Bink video for cutscenes. When run they just show a black screen. According to the chaps who produce Bink this is caused by a ****e DirectDraw Driver. This isn't localised to the card either doesn't work on my FX5800 or my friends Ti4400. Just a random thing I am reading in a lot of threads, a LOT of people love 30.82 drivers, although some people don't. the 40 series and higher were optimised for the FX cards, I believe. This thread talks about a person having resolution problems with 44.03 drivers, another Geforce 4 user... << read thread (http://www.guru3d.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=55076) >> Since I am kinda sick and tired of looking through the Guru3D forums, for now... I'll end on this note. People comparing driver version numbers, and a bit of good advice at the end... Quote It honestly depends on your system. << read thread (http://www.guru3d.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=54528) >>Good luck and keep trying new drivers until things work better for you or you give up hope... that seems to be the way things are with Nvidia video cards! :rolleyes: PS -- My Geforce 3 is running on 43.51 drivers. It works well for my system, but I don't know how it reacts with other cards. You milage may very. Title: Nebulas Post by: DOCa Cola on June 22, 2003, 06:50:09 PM hehe, yea, i don't like the new driver version either BUT
i am using it on 4 pc's now without any problems, on one gf4 ti-4200, one gf3, on one gf2mx600 and on a rivatnt2m64 and remember, only people who have problems are posting in forums, not they who don't have any problems :) (that's one thing i experienced with the release of fleet operations too :lol:) when the 3x.xx drivers came out, everywhere you could read in that time how bad they were and that the previous driver generation was much better. everytime when a new driver version comes out the forums are filled how bad they are and ppl recommend using this and that older driver version and that they have 3 points less in 3d mark with the newest **** nvidia has produced :lol: DOCa Cola Title: Nebulas Post by: SisQ on July 23, 2003, 03:21:17 PM my cristallid nebulas have green sqares too ... perhaps there is a mistake in the sod ? (have geforce mx/mx400)
Title: Nebulas Post by: ADuc on July 23, 2003, 04:58:24 PM yeah, some work, some don't
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