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

[TheJamsh]

i think sli is only really useful in ridiculously well graphiced games... like crysis or whatever...

[TheJamsh]

to all, see my post regarding older nVidia drivers. you can download all the older drivers there for all graphics cards made by nVidia.

[Angstromicus]

Speaking of 200 series cards, the 280 is working fine with me - 177.83 drivers (vista 64 bit). No problems here, I can play with all settings max (shadows disabled), including sky at max settings, and everything ran fine.

[Wraith]

Does anyone know where i can find the drivers or the older ones then these? Last release or older date.. dont know which one. I have Geforce FX 5200 nvida.

[Steeveeo]

Does anyone know where i can find the drivers or the older ones then these? Last release or older date.. dont know which one. I have Geforce FX 5200 nvida.

Dunno why you'd need it, none of the drivers I know of for that series cause this issue, but you can get any version of your drivers at Guru3d.com.

[Wraith]

I just formatted and dont have any video card drivers installed.

[Member]

Speaking of 200 series cards, the 280 is working fine with me - 177.83 drivers (vista 64 bit). No problems here, I can play with all settings max (shadows disabled), including sky at max settings, and everything ran fine.

Wow awsome news . How about BZ1 on 280? What other older games you have?
Thanks.

[TheJamsh]

TOO, you know you can set shadows to 'one' in BZ2 right? that does work fine. unless youre VC doesnt support it or anything but yeh im just pointing it out

[Angstromicus]

Yea, "One" works, but meh.

Oh, and I recently tried BZI and I got the menu's to show up just fine. The game crashed when I tried actual gameplay, though. But I'm using the original, unpatched version on vista 64-bit.

[bigbadbogie]

But I'm using the original, unpatched version on vista 64-bit.

....Yeeah

[VSMIT]

Hey, TOO, are you going to try BZ1 patched up?

VSMIT.

[Angstromicus]

sure, just a sec...

[Angstromicus]

I got both versions working, but only by running in software mode. Hardware mode generates an "Unhandled Exception" message and a very bad static sound for a brief moment.

[Member]

Well, got myself 8800GTS 640MB card for $89. BZ1 and BZ2 work really well with ForceWare 177.92.  I'm very surprised to see that most of my old games are working with them.  Tried new 180.43 beta and they are complete pile of garbage. Whatever you do, avoid them like a plague. Massive corruption in all BZ and Battlefield games, just to name a few. I'm going to stick with 177.92 for a now.
Oh and if anyone is interested to try 177.92 you can get them here http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForce-Forceware-XP-177.92-32-bit-download-2042.html

[Angstromicus]

I'll have to try that version out some time. The version I tested with was 177.83. Thanks for the heads up!