Curse

Jaaku Seijin · Jul 13, 2005, 05:28 AM // 05:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dirkiess

As a rule of thumb.

There is no need to install the latest Video Drivers if there are no overall problems with your current setup.

Most driver updates will give a fix for certain games and possible hardware/software related issues, and also a small overall performance boost.

I would always check the Drivers Updates before going with an install, if you are experiencing any problems, to see if this driver release fixes anything you may be having problems with.

Otherwise, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

maybe the ati drivers are made to only fix problems, but the nvidia drivers are always pushing the envelope, adding support for sli, and all the new tech that comes with there new products and supporting mobos along with many other things, including fixes. if you want the best, its essential to update with nvidia, cause they are always improving the standard not only with their hardware, but with their drivers as well.

besides drivers arnt based around games, games are based around drivers, so if nvidia updates and guild wars doesnt update accordingly to that, its on arena softs shoulders to fix, not nvidias. and i realize guild wars is ati perferred, but still, more people own an nvidia card, and they should see that as a problem to there game if over half its players game are getting crashes.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
MSI K8N NEO4 SLI Platinum
1GB Corsair PC 4000
MSI Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX OC

provoko · Jul 13, 2005, 03:04 PM // 15:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by turnkey1970

Instead of a blue screen I get a garbled mess of colors and squares.

Those are artifacts caused from overheating, over/undervolting videocard, too much video card overclocking, or you didn't do a clean install of video drivers.

The video card volts in bios should never be touched and should be at default, but I don't think you ever touched those settings, so most likely you're either overclocking, video card is overheating, or didn't do a clean install of video drivers.

turnkey1970 · Jul 17, 2005, 11:42 PM // 23:42

Well, I think you are right. I don't overclock, I don't take the chance with my stuff. The card I bought though is factory overclocked. Now I checked the core temp in their utilities and it was well within the safe range. I took the card out and replaced it with an ATI card, one of the 256mb Xtasy ones. I am now running in 1024 x 768, with 4x AA, and Guild Wars is a good looking game. Needless to say the company that made my original board has asked me to send it to them to see what the heck is wrong with it.

Zips · Jul 22, 2005, 01:47 AM // 01:47

It seems like the crashing problem is fixed with the 77.76 beta drivers:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/77...xp_english.exe

Just try these if you're really looking for a solution right now. Otherwise, if you feel uncomfortable using beta drivers, you might as well wait for the next official release (whenever that may be).

Twila · Jul 25, 2005, 03:30 AM // 03:30

I’ve had very frustrating PC freeze and start up problems since the update.

It started with my mouse cursor going missing. Then over the next few days my screen pixels go awry with running multi coloured blocks and lines or blue screen pops up (nvd_disp in infinite loop), PC goes to ‘sleep mode’ but cannot be awakened, screen goes black/shutdown.

Most worrying of all is that I often cannot even boot up properly without windows freezing, screen going black (into sleep mode) or having funny distorted pixels. Following Anet’s support advice, I downloaded the latest Direct 9x driver and Nvidia drivers. Still the same problems occur although screen resolution has improved.

I will check which version of Nvidia drivers I’ve currently got and will try 77.89.

Strangely, I tried unplugging and changing my mouse and initially thought the PC boot up problems were solved. But no, the next day I still encountered boot up problems

Any ideas please?

Hewlett Packard PC
Pentium 4 3.0
19” LCD monitor
1 GB Kingston memory
Nvidia low end graphic card (64MB)

Night Daftshadow · Jul 25, 2005, 03:41 AM // 03:41

im sticking with 71.89 until nvidia fixes this problem with an official driver.

emirate xaaron · Jul 25, 2005, 12:03 PM // 12:03

i only have troubles if i minimize the game,otherwise no crashes. it's annoying as i have to use the new drivers for battlefield 2.

Vorlin · Jul 25, 2005, 10:43 PM // 22:43

I'm running a GeForce Ti-4200 with 64 megs using the 77.72 certified drivers, and the problem I have is that at the video card at some point seems to receive a 'shutdown' order from GW, because the game doesn't crash (I can hear it playing correctly in the background) but my display goes black and my monitor goes into standbye mode (i.e. it's not receiving a video signal). Extremely irritating because I have to pull the power plug out to shut the computer down.

No other game I have causes problems, and this is a very generic card, my drivers are updated, and this is happening with irritating frequency (some areas of the game really set it off).

I hope ANet and NVidia can get together and figure out what the problem is, because nothing takes the fun out of a game faster than having to repeat a mission over and over and over because of a crash bug. :/

P4 2.4 Ghz, 512 meg ram, GeForce Ti-4200 64 meg graphics card, windows settings are 'let application decide', very vanilla, no overclocking.

michiel9 · Jul 28, 2005, 11:49 AM // 11:49

Hi guys,

Guess I'm in the same boat here... glad I'm not the only one, I was beginning to think it was time to RMA my 6800GT :/

My system:
WinXP PRO SP2
P4 3.2 (Northwood)
2X 512 mb pc3200 ram (Twinmos, running 2.6 v)
XFX 6800GT 256 AGP vga+dvi (currently running 76.45, gives me the least amount of glitches)
TAGAN 480W PSU
All running normal stock speeds, good temperatures.

I tried the following:

-different forceware drivers
-ingame video settings
-Vsync on/ff
-various forceware-panel options, like highest detail textures
-fastwrite on/off, even different agp speeds
-Ran Memtest, all clear
-re-formatted once, re-installed GW twice

I get these occasional "tearing" problems across the screen, visible at certain angles and places. Thick flashing grey/black/green lines accross the screen.

Note that this machine ran both Doom3 and Halflife2, together with CS:S flawlessly. No graphical corruption in those games.

any ideas ?

Thorm · Jul 29, 2005, 07:14 PM // 19:14

77.72 crashed on exit for me to, but I found that if I window the application before clicking on the 'X' to close, that the application closes normally without the blue screen of death.

I needed the 77.72 drivers though, because the 71.89 drivers caused graphical corruption while playing the game.

Now I don't have that issue (check the 77.72 driver release notes page 16 referencing VIA chipsets to see what I believe my problem was) with the 77.72 drivers.

Driver Release Notes

Artemis Bladewing · Jul 29, 2005, 07:19 PM // 19:19

Ok I have the same problem too and it really bugs me, can some one tell me where to get old drivers cuz this PC is new and I want an older driver if those work better.

Terik Stoermshade · Jul 29, 2005, 07:36 PM // 19:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Artemis Bladewing

Ok I have the same problem too and it really bugs me, can some one tell me where to get old drivers cuz this PC is new and I want an older driver if those work better.

You should be able to find old drivers here:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/

Be careful, some are beta drivers.

Dyeeo · Jul 29, 2005, 07:41 PM // 19:41

Get the 80.40 beta drivers. They are working for me great! http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1116

ProdigyXL · Aug 02, 2005, 03:43 PM // 15:43

I have run into the same problem. I thought it was my hard drive, appearantly not. I bought a new 300Gig Seagate yesterday and saw no change. I've trie d the 71.89s, and another 77 series with no difference. Tried the 67.02, still happening. When I get home from work I will try the Beta 80s and see if that helps. Any suggestions? Here is a quick run down of my system

P4 3.2Ghz Prescott
Giga-Byte 8KNXP Pro Rev 2 (Tried Bios FJ, FD, and FH... no change)
Giga-Byte 3D Rocket Cooler Pro
2 Gigs Cosiar XLS or whatever
BFG Tech 6800 GT OC Agp (Various drivers, no change)
Audigy 2 ZS Platnium (Latest drives on site, April 05)
2 Samsung CDRW/DVD Reader
WD 160 Sata Cavair (Maybe good afterall, but I've removed it and replaced with...)
Seagate Baracuda 300 Gig IDE

I do not overclock any of my equipment. It is all factory settings. And I swear I hear my hard drive do something bad before it blue screens. Please help!

Marrik Havnor · Aug 03, 2005, 04:01 AM // 04:01

77.72 blue screened on me but 71.89 keeps randomly crashing to desktop. I'm not sure why as this is the only game that crashes like that constantly.

Darkrouge101 · Aug 03, 2005, 08:28 AM // 08:28

I've got this problem as well... just updated the drivers on my Gf 6800 ultra and it crashes my system about every 1 out of 3 times... causes a critical error in the computer and instantly restarts it. Fun

I've found that running it in Window mode cuts down on the crashing frequency... don't know if that helps anyone.

EternalTempest · Aug 12, 2005, 06:13 PM // 18:13

It appears the new 77.77 (Official MS WHQL) drivers from nvidia has fixed the issue.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_77.77.html

The newer 78.01 are not MS WHQL for my card (FX 5700 Ultra) so not warm and fuzzy with them.

Fixing the Fields · Aug 14, 2005, 10:36 AM // 10:36

I got the newest 77.77 drivers but my game keeps crashing, I think i'm gonna try the 71.89.

Gladiator · Aug 19, 2005, 05:45 AM // 05:45

I didn't read all the posts (I skimmed though - but thats a lot of posts to read them all) - but if you want to keep the latest drivers, I've found that if you minimize the game and then right click on the game button on the start bar and click close you can close the game without it crashing. Personally I log out every time first, don't know if that makes a difference or not. This has worked every time for me.

Instructions:
1) Hit the windows key on your keyboard
2) After the game minimizes to taskbar, right click on the game button (on the taskbar)
3) On the menu that pops up, go up to close (its the first one from the bottom)

DaMuffinBoi · Aug 25, 2005, 02:50 AM // 02:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dirkiess

As a rule of thumb.

There is no need to install the latest Video Drivers if there are no overall problems with your current setup.

Most driver updates will give a fix for certain games and possible hardware/software related issues, and also a small overall performance boost.

I would always check the Drivers Updates before going with an install, if you are experiencing any problems, to see if this driver release fixes anything you may be having problems with.

Otherwise, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Well put. People always trying to fix things that aren't broken, and never fix things that are.