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Lukas W
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2007 23:43 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2007 23:45
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Hi,
When I play a(ny) game in 3D, after a while the game starts to manipulate the vertexes on some of the game models, and sometimes some vertexes aren't rendered with textures.

Is this a problem with my gfx card? (I assume it is) If so is there a way to fix it?

I have version 162.18 of nvidia drivers (Geforce 7900gs) and the latest build of directx 9.0c (august 2007).

here is a screenshot from roller coaster tycoon 3 (not that I play the game, but I was going to test if it happened here too).

Notice the lines coming from the trees, and the two black-ish triangles in the middle of the screen (these triangles varies from game to game, sometimes there are so many of them it even affects the speed of the game.

I think it's sad, because I can't enjoy great games like Fear, Stalker, Thief Series and Penumbra

The funny thing is that DBPro created games doesn't have this problem.
But maybe because I don't play them long enough for this issue to come present is why.

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Deathead
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Theres probably someone trying to watch you with huge triangular binoculars. But hey you should even worry about what games you can play... My pc has a core 2 duo processer and a 7800 geforce card(Not very top of the range) And it can't even run Morrowind! But then it does have vista placed in it.

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Eric T
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 00:07 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 00:08
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The 162.18's were giving me some weird problems in games. Try the 163.44 beta drivers. Seemed to fix a lot of problems for me. I'm on vista, though, so who knows.

http://nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

Quote: "Theres probably someone trying to watch you with huge triangular binoculars. But hey you should even worry about what games you can play... My pc has a core 2 duo processer and a 7800 geforce card(Not very top of the range) And it can't even run Morrowind! But then it does have vista placed in it."


Sounds like a UP more than a hardware/software problem.

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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 00:15
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Quote: "(not that I play the game, but I was going to test if it happened here too)."


whats wrong with that game?
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Lukas W
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 00:20
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Robert F,
I think the game is not entertaining me.
I like games like the ones I listed in my post (especially the thief series and Penumbra )

Eric T,
I'll try those beta drivers.
Why are they beta? Is it because they are not signed by Microsoft or because (as the name implies) they are not finished?

I am currently burning a cd, So I can't restart my computer in order to finish the installation. But I'll get back with results after the burning is done.

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Eric T
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 00:22
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Well, I have no idea why they're still in Beta. They were supposed to be Released on August 25th, for Bioshock, but they didn't.

I haven't had any problems with them, as of yet (and they did help Bioshock performance, and fixed a ton of bugs that I noticed in the demo).

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Lukas W
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 00:44
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It appears the beta driver has fixed the problem. Thanks for the link!

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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 07:03
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The new nvidia drivers have been oddly unstable as of late.
Generally if one screws up though get a beta or rollback.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 14:26 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 14:27
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Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 has had this problem before with NVidia Drivers.. waaay back around version 90+. The RCT3 forums found the problem was deffinately the drivers, and Nvidia fixed it.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 18:26
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the problem still persists in the game Stalker But not to the same degree as before. Now it is playable.

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I just realised something with you picture.

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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 18:46
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Quote: "the problem still persists in the game Stalker But not to the same degree as before. Now it is playable.
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Hmm...

One time, with an ATI card I had a similar problem... which was caused by driver Anti-Aliasing. Turned it off and it ran fine. Never understood why the hell it did that.

No guarantee on that working thoug.

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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 20:01
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ahh. I will try to run Stalker without AA. (Currently running it at x16)

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Lukas W
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 20:38 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 20:39
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aww..



I don't know what to do. The old problem is back. Is this a hardware related problem?

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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 21:15 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 21:20
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This problem was caused by upgrading Direct X to the latest version



then it was fixed by upgrading the graphics card driver to the latest too.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 7th Sep 2007 15:50
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Hi all, the problem I had is solved now that I installed version 158.27 of the nvidia forceware driver.

But sometimes there is black square around an object.
It is nothing to worry about though, as it is a rare problem.

thanks for the tips.

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