Michael Dorosh Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 I have noted some people's reluctance to use nVidia's beta drivers to cure the "invisible white" problem, which is really a minor one. Myself, despite the excellent help of several people on the forum, I just wasn't able to navigate through uninstallation, reinstallation, and general crapping around with the beta drivers and decided I can live with the problem. One way around most of the problem is to go into the bmp folder, and replace "white" with another colour in all of the interface bmps affected - nationality flags, action buttons, etc. I use light grey in place of pure white and there is little difference in appearance - except now there is no flashing. The onel remaining issue is AAR screens - I find that if you printscreen when the "blank" AAR comes up, you can paste it into paint or whatever, and the image is as per normal - very neat! But my question was whether or not anyone has taken the opportunity to redo the interface as a whole, removing the colour white? As good an excuse as any for doing a mod, I suppose. I am aware of the many interface mods out there already - the nose art one, gunmetal, etc., etc., but I doubt if any of them address the nVidia "white out problem", and was curious to see if anyone came up with a total interface conversion that does address that problem. This problem affects a lot of diverse bmps, including the compass points in the map editor (N, W, E, S), the auto generate button, the nationality flags, which I don't think any of the other interface mods would have bothered to touch, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 Stay away from Beta drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 Meh. I got no probs with them, and now CM looks like it should Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanco Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 I wasn't aware of that problem. I have a GeForce and have never had any of that happen to me. At any rate, it's much easier for you to revert to an earlier driver than it is for me to mod a whole interface. That answers that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted April 14, 2002 Author Share Posted April 14, 2002 Originally posted by deanco: That answers that.One modder down, 3987 and counting to go....(you didn't really think you had the monopoly, did you?) In all honesty, I wasn't even thinking about you specifically when I asked my question - it should have been obvious the question was directed to nVidia driver owners, which you clearly aren't...guess you're underqualified to do this one, huh? [ April 13, 2002, 07:19 PM: Message edited by: Michael Dorosh ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris talpas Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by deanco: That answers that.One modder down, 3987 and counting to go....(you didn't really think you had the monopoly, did you?) In all honesty, I wasn't even thinking about you specifically when I asked my question - it should have been obvious the question was directed to nVidia driver owners, which you clearly aren't...guess you're underqualified to do this one, huh? </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted April 14, 2002 Author Share Posted April 14, 2002 Originally posted by chris talpas: Touche Michael, Deanco said he had a GeForce which clearly is an Nvidia chip ChrisYou're making my brain hurt! But more importantly, do you have a paint program and about 18 hours to spare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udrink Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 double post [ April 14, 2002, 04:29 AM: Message edited by: Udrinkbullsmilk ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udrink Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 Try using the 28.32 drivers that have the self-installer, ftp://files.3dnews.ru/pub/drivers/nvidia/wXP-2823.exe there is a link. Upon inspection that says 28.23, but if they dont work send me a PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattias Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 Besides.. the current official, non beta, drivers from Nvidia that Udrinkbullsmilk mentioned have fixed the graphics glitch in CM. So no reason to beat about the bush any longer... -- *Get it directly from Nvidia* http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=windows2000 -- M. [ April 14, 2002, 06:40 AM: Message edited by: Mattias ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanco Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by deanco: That answers that. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One modder down, 3987 and counting to go....(you didn't really think you had the monopoly, did you?) ------------------ ------------------ Sorry, I should have said, 'That answers that as far as I am concerned.' You're certainly free to ask the other 4012 (as of 14-04-2002, 11:52 GMT) modders if they would be willing to mod an entire interface as a workaround for a driver problem that (at this point in time, according to Mattias) is no longer a problem. Post here if you find someone, OK Michael? I can tell from your first post that you're serious about this. The lighter tone of your last post doesn't fool me. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted April 14, 2002 Author Share Posted April 14, 2002 Originally posted by Udrinkbullsmilk: Try using the 28.32 drivers that have the self-installer, ftp://files.3dnews.ru/pub/drivers/nvidia/wXP-2823.exe there is a link. Upon inspection that says 28.23, but if they dont work send me a PMI CAN SEE!!!!! I CAN SEEE!!!!!!!!! Thanks, buddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hensworth Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 Salvation has come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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