Problems with BZ2 & Latest Nvidia Drivers (8800GT, 9600GT)

[Steeveeo]

but when I switched to 163.75 it worked perfectly.

The frik, that version gives a "Could not find compatible hardware" error too!

[Steeveeo]

Well, I've found a workaround.

You have to set sky detail to [LOW], and make sure it stays there (if you're editing, once you leave the editor the full sky likes to kick back on). This pretty much kills the error for now, as I do not experience it when it is set to low.

So, until nVidia decides to stop being ignorant, or GSH finds the time and the will to update the engine (even though he generously spends it all hammering out the kinks in PB4 as-is), us with the modern nVidia cards will have to bear not having a full skydome, so much for space mods

[TheJamsh]

or.. keep a lower rate video card

what a nightmare.. nothing to do with DXT's is it? ive heard PB4 is a little better for selecting the right card.

[GSH]

All modern cards (heck, virtually any DX7 card!) do DXT just fine. That's not the issue here. Modern graphics card driver support (aka buggy support) for DX6 is the issue.

-- GSH

[GSH]

New drivers just posted -- see http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14737 . Haven't bothered trying them.

-- GSH

[Commando]

No luck.  The latest drivers still have the same issue.  Complete texture failure along with less than 10 fps forcing a shutdown.

[Ego - Nikolas]

No problems with mine gf9800gtx

(more abaut my hardware( http://bz2.freeforums.org/new-hardware-time-t101.html

Game runing smooth and great.


Today i download 175.16_geforce_winxp_32bit_international_whql.exe

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/175.16/175.16_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe

Stick to whql, coz whql is no beta and all issues are fixed in,:whql

After instaling new drivers allways reinstall directx
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/1/1718ccc4-6315-4d8e-9543-8e28a4e18c4c/dxwebsetup.exe

More here:
http://cpanel02.london.networkeq.net/~arcane/bz2maps/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1597

[Commando]

How long are you running it?  I can run bz2 for maybe 15 minutes before all textures fail then my framerates drop below 10.  If I leave sky detail set to None, it doesn't occur.

[Red Devil]

I think my older card is dying, so I overnighted a new card today which should be here tomorrow.  I'll see if the new card has any of the same issues you guys are having.

[Ego - Nikolas]

Allrite ppl
I had a game like 1h:30min. (i was too tired to finish game, i went afk to bed and i had drinking day like 6 beers and work bofore that)

That's a pict of that game




Anything went fine, ping is hier coz of ppl at my home.

No game crashes, no graphics errors 

Only logical fact is that new graphics engines are overclocked, and overheat by it self in game and complex calculating, for that reason ppl got graphics image errors in time game and or pc freezes too!

To fix this graphics errors when you got one, lower your frequency gpu and memory.

I'm using riva tuner, thats tool for graphics cards, it controls fans, pipelines, shaders, openGL, directX, and frequencys: gpu + memory, and more.

You can start with frequency gpu + memory.
if you  got 600mhz as default frequency of you gpu, lower like 550mhz, memory 800 to 750mhz

Or try 100mhz less thats for shure you will got no errors.

Latest riva tuner download:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/downloadget.php?id=163&file=4&evp=2d213e528fb556c354432a3976bff55a

[Axeminister]

I know I'm thankful for my Asus probe program. The other it was overheating and I found a fan not working. Whew. Since I've replaced it and added another, I'm running 98F.

[Ego - Nikolas]

Im on 140F  to 150F

[Protocol7]

Once I've turned my sky completely off, I haven't had an error in the world to be a problem.

I noticed that when I view my log the only error is an error about a texture, I'll see if I can dig it up. It had the word fence in it, that's all I can remember.

[Steeveeo]

Im going to bump this back up since the problem has been occuring more and more.

(Mods, can someone sticky this? Its pretty important and prevents repeat complaints)

[OvermindDL1]

Done for the moment, when their drivers are half-decent again, then someone should undo...

I still question how many people actually *look* at the stickies though...
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