Jack Carr Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 After installing my new video card today, I decided to surf out to Nvidia.com to get the latest/greatest video driver. 77.76 was what came with the card and this worked great with Combat Mission. 81.85 was available for download, so I downloaded and installed the driver. Combat Mission didn't work so good after that. I ended up rolling the driver back to the 77.76 version and everything is fine now. Just an FYI for those interested. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 Weeeeell... So what problems exactly did you have? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted October 27, 2005 Author Share Posted October 27, 2005 Things were missing from the screens. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Are you saying that the 2D information elements in CM were blank and/or garbled (text not appearing, garbled or graphic elements missing) ? Or are you saying that there is something wrong with the 3D display ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted October 27, 2005 Author Share Posted October 27, 2005 The 2d elements like the text were missing. I tried it very quickly and when I launched CMBB, I knew right away that something wasn't right. I couldn't see the buttons to launch into a game and allot of text wasn't on the screen. As soon as I rolled back the driver to 77.76, everything was back to normal. Not sure if this has anything to do with the new card that I got but since the 77.76 drivers work fine, I would think that the card doesn't enter into it. Let me know if I can supply more details. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WineCape Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Jack, I had ForceWare v77.77 installed and that worked fine with CMBB/CMAK. Installed v81.85 last night for my 2 x nVidia 6800Ultra's (in SLi) and will have a look tonight to see if I have the same problem as you in CM. It seems that you have the same 2D corruption with your v81.85 drivers that I had earlier with the version 6~ Forceware drivers. Once I installed the version 7~ drivers I had no problem. Hope the probelm does not return with the 8 series drivers Will report back by tomorrow if my v81.85 work well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted October 28, 2005 Author Share Posted October 28, 2005 I'd be interested to know if you also see the same problem that I did. I'm wondering if I have some setting wrong, but as I stated in a previous post, I didn't change the card settings from one driver to the next. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Did you remove the old drivers before installing the new ones as the instructions command? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WineCape Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 OK, I'm back. Happy to report that my v81.85 ForceWare drivers are working fine with CMAK/CMBB with my SLi'ed nVidia 6800 Ultras. Jack, if you have trouble with yours, I suggest, as Redwolf did, to read this page carefully regarding installing/removing drivers. Especially regarding the proper removal of older drivers. Oh yes, I've noticed a "problem" in CMAK with the new drivers from nVidia: As soon as the gun smoke dissipates, after a tank fires his main gun, the smoke particles turn from white to a slight hue of green at the very moment just before the smoke disappear. A minor problem really. [ October 31, 2005, 12:00 AM: Message edited by: WineCape ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 I have a problem that might be related: when I take screenshots during the movie-phase many parts of the screen (vehicles, trees, units) disappear; sometimes a few, sometimes everything apart from the ground-surface. Also the 2D text in the panel below is missing in the screenshot. I find this mildly annoying because I like taking screenshots. When I pause the movie I can take the screenshots without problems though. Anybody recognize this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted October 30, 2005 Author Share Posted October 30, 2005 Thanks, WineCape. I bookmarked the link you provided. I must have missed a step. Although, I'm not sure I want green tinged smoke. In any case, sorry for the false alarm. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 Erik Springelkamp - I'd highly suggest pausing the action anyway. Your computer is playing back the video while at the same time attempting to capture the screen (dump a graphic file to disk). The exact moment that the screen capture is bound to occur is unknown to you. During these fractions of a second screen elements are redrawn, so it is highly likely that you will miss several elements that haven't been redrawn yet. Pausing the action allows the screen capture to pull down exactly what you're seeing on screen since it isn't task switching between the screen capture and redrawing the screen. I'm not sure if other screen capture software does this better than the standard 'Print Screen' or not (assuming that you're using a PC). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TufenHuden Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Nvidia's 81.84s work good on CM. I tried the 81.85's on my Asus 6800GT, and it was blinking or the text stuff was blinking on and off, like if something knockedout, and other text stuff in the info boxes. :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 I tried re-installing the 81.85's again and got better results than the first time, but still not good. I also experienced the ghostly blinking. I followed the instructions that were posted, but did not use any sort of driver cleaner. Perhaps I need to use a cleaner to get rid of the old driver. I went back to the old driver and it works fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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