Madmatt Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Okay, I have finished my test of these new official drivers that were released today (8/13). Basically they are identical to the 44.03's in that when Anti-Aliasing is enabled all 2D text in game is not not shown. A quick alt-tab out and back in seems to fix it. I tested in x2, x4 and Quintex modes. Fog works fine and the display is crisp and clean. Frame rate is as good as it was in the 44.03's and maybe even a little quicker. I will once more alert Nvidia of the Anti-Aliasing bug which has been in place since the 30.87 series. Testing was done on a GeForce 3 Ti500 card on Windows XP Pro. I will report results with other cards (GF4 and FX's) once I get them. Madmatt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Any word on any new nVidia drivers for the Mac that would enable us to get full use of our cards with CM (i.e. no downsampling)? Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Hi Matt, Just installed the drivers on a P4 2,8 processor with Geforce FX 5600 card Everything looks OK,fog and night even looks better than befor. No problems till now. short update here,when I open a pbem file or a new scenario which I have downloaded the graphics look like squares,buildings are gone and everything looks strange. Alt tab one time makes everything OK. [ August 14, 2003, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: Stoffel ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaws Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 A liitle slow down switched back to 44.67 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Ok, installed on a P4 1.7 with Geforce 2 MX200 yesterday. No problems and since my drivers were fairly old it seems that when I put all the details on max on a 1200x3600 map it didn't appear to 'stutter' as it did before. Yay! Did try switching on AA but, as mentioned above, the game text becomes shy, runs and hides. Madmatt, your "not not shown" gave me hope for just a second or so. I demand compensation for mental anguish. A new CMAK screenshot will do nicely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted August 15, 2003 Author Share Posted August 15, 2003 One update, there is a well known issue with GeForce 3 Ti cards (the Ti200 and Ti500) and VERY slow boot times on Windows XP using certain drivers. These new drivers DO cause very long boot times (like 5 minutes) on Windows XP with my GeForce 3 ti500. The 44.03's did not but the earlier betas did. As such, I have reverted to the 44.03's. Nvidia knows about this bug so they will probably attend to it with the next driver revision. Madmatt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Arg! I have installed the 43.45 drivers and playing CM is now SO SLOW! I installed it to get rid of a nasty flicker whilst playing games with lighting effects in but, my god, this is dire. Can someone recommend some much faster drivers for my GEForce IV Ti4200 8x 128MB? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 The new drivers hosed my CM. I have a GeForce4 Ti4400 and WinXP. Installed the new drivers and the Main Page came up fine. Then I went to load a PBEM, and noticed that the brown texture in the "loading graphics" window was black. Then when the map appeared, there was no map! It was all black - except the buttons on the bottom were there, and the landmarks were there. So I closed it out and relaunched CM. It was fine for one PBEM turn, then on the next turn it all went black again. This is the first driver problem I have ever had with CM. So I just rolled back to the 44.03 drivers. Back to normal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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