Blue Screen of Doom
SnootCB:
Quote from: Twibil on 2007 October 18, 13:43:43
What is the general consensus on this beta driver? Who is it working for and who hasn't had any luck?
I had to replace my video card to a GeForce 6200 recently and have had no end of headaches trying to find a driver that works. My old card died, but it worked brilliantly with the game and I cannot remember which driver version I was using. (I had to use a crappy old 64 meg card in the interim, untill I could save up for a new card).
I really want to get the game running because I haven't had much time to play recently. I have BV installed but haven't been able to try it out yet. Would I have better luck if I just un-installed BV until all of these problems are resolved ( or should I just assume they are permanently borked and try to find another way around it)? I really don't want to use the useshaders false cheat if I don't have to. My old card had me spoiled because my game looked so pretty.
I believe the new driver (163.71) is official now, no longer beta. It has not worked to eliminate the BSoD for me.
The useshaders false cheat is not so bad, except for the fact that we shouldn't have to use it in the first place. I have all other graphics setting turned up high, but it bugs me that I can't use the snow x-ray thing. I payed a buttload of money for this card (GeForce 7800) and I want it to work like it is supposed to, dammit!
I'm looking into older drivers now. I'll post if I find one that works out for my card.
Twibil:
When I installed the card yesterday I just grabbed the newest drivers Nvidia told me I needed, thinking that they certainly must have resolved the driver issues by now. I can see now that it was silly of me to assume so. I am not sure which one I have installed as I am away from my home computer at the moment. Within minutes of trying to run the game I got the infinite loop BSOD.
I cried when my old card stopped working. I had it working perfectly and loved how good my game looked. It sucks that we cannot play the game as it is meant to be played. I know I am being a big baby, but I want my game to play like it did before. Until I can come up with something better I will have to try the useshaders cheat.
God forbid I should have any REAL problems in my life.
I would appreciate it if you (or anyone else) would let me know if you find an older version that works.
notveryawesome:
I've heard/read that, with certain Nvidia cards, it helps to roll back to a much older driver, rather than 'upgrading' to the latest one. Alas, I have no suggestions as to which driver(s) work best, but it might be worth searching the web for.
sirnh:
I haven't seen a Blue Screen of Doom (and I hope it will stay that way) and I'm using:
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
driver version: 6.14.10.9371
driver date: 22/10/2006
(Old drivers I know. And to be honest those drives are the ones that were on my computer when I bought it. I just never bothered upgrading them. If I would upgrade my drivers, would I have to remove my 'current old drivers'? Or can I just install the new drivers?)
Anyway I figured, since I keep hearing about the blue screens, but haven't seen any I could post my card and drivers... (You never know what it is good for)
As I already said I haven't seen a blue screen, but the game has this lag, but that might just as well be my downloads-folder having over 10.000 files in it.
I'm not using the useshaders false cheat and I use the snow x-ray thing.
ZephyrZodiac:
You should be able to save a copy of the current drivers so that if upgrading doesn't work, it's easy to roll back.
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