Sitzkrieg Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 I didn't know if this should be posted in the Tech forum or not. It isn't a tech problem (yet) but more a warning. On a lark, I downloaded and installed the new Detonator 40 drivers for Windows 2000/XP at work on Friday. This is also where I downloaded the CM:BB demo (fast connection plus being the admin are good things sometimes ). Anyway, I tried the demo on my machine at work with the Detonator 40 drivers installed. With any anti-aliasing set, the scenario list comes up blank. Seems to be a similar issue to what was occurring with Windows 2000/XP and CM:BO until Nvidia got something right (finally). Seems they got it wrong again. This is not an issue for me as I'm using Windows ME or 2000 Server at home without the Detonator 40 drivers installed. 4x anti-aliasing is working just fine. So for anyone thinking of downloading and installing the new Detonator 40 drivers, stay away for now. Forgot to add some specs: I'm using a Dell P3 866 running Windows 2000 Pro SP3 (plus latest updates) with a VisionTek Geforce4 MX (64MB). [ September 01, 2002, 01:12 AM: Message edited by: sitzkrieg ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 Read the Windows Demo Readme. It talks all about this. Madmatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PipBoy Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 Ah that's too bad since 40.41 gives a good framerate improvement. Hopefully nvidia will address the issues soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 It's always a good idea to check the tech support board here before downloading new video drivers, let sombody else be the guinea pig . There''s been a thread over there about this for a week and Matt mentioned that there was a problem with the new drivers and CM:BB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNac Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 However those drivers really give problems with a lot of games (is not only CMBB). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine59 Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 Crew Crash When I originally encountered the crash I had 4x FSAA turned on, 27.5 detonator drivers. Newer drivers did not help. I rolled back the drivers as the recent ones cause severe slowdowns for me in Morrowind. This morning I started a new Citadel game with FSAA off, let a MkIII get KO'd and checked the crew. Graphics were normal and no crash when selected. Could it be related to AA? Although I haven't encountered text problems in CMBO or the CMBB demo in both games forcing AA leads to some color changes around the borders of the screen. When I ran CMBO on my 98SE machine I never encountered the changes with AA on. Current specs: XP Home, AthlonXP 2000+, 1GB DDR RAM, Geforce4 Ti4600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine59 Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 Oops, wrong thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 The solution for me was simple enough, just turn FSAA off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine59 Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 Capt., You distilled the take home message of my long winded post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitzkrieg Posted September 1, 2002 Author Share Posted September 1, 2002 Originally posted by Madmatt: Read the Windows Demo Readme. It talks all about this. MadmattOops! Sorry about that. I couldn't get the readme to open on my Windows ME machine because I didn't have Word installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 Originally posted by sitzkrieg: Oops! Sorry about that. I couldn't get the readme to open on my Windows ME machine because I didn't have Word installed.Don't you have Wordpad? Micro$oft do also do a free Word reader if not. Try a search on their web-site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitzkrieg Posted September 1, 2002 Author Share Posted September 1, 2002 Originally posted by Firefly: Don't you have Wordpad? Micro$oft do also do a free Word reader if not. Try a search on their web-site.Yep, but it wouldn't open it. I have Word, just not on this install partition (keeping it clean for games). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawyer Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 AARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!! I just downloaded and installed the Nvidia 40.41 driver yesterday. I went through this crap last November when CM wouldn't work with WinXP. Next time I'm getting a Matrox card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PipBoy Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 Just turn off FSAA. That driver works fine otherwise. Matrox, lol [ September 01, 2002, 05:50 PM: Message edited by: PipBoy ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitzkrieg Posted September 2, 2002 Author Share Posted September 2, 2002 Originally posted by Lawyer: AARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!! I just downloaded and installed the Nvidia 40.41 driver yesterday. I went through this crap last November when CM wouldn't work with WinXP. Next time I'm getting a Matrox card.Uninstall and back out to the 30.xx series. The last one's work fine with CM and FSAA. Just don't go forward until Nvidia fixes what they broke again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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