Curse

PawnBoy · Apr 21, 2005, 05:29 PM // 17:29

I believe that "Unsupported Graphics Card" means that you MAY run into trouble with your card, and if you do, they can't really do anything to help you. If it runs...it runs, and congrats to you.

OrangeArrow · Apr 21, 2005, 06:06 PM // 18:06

I think unsupported graphics seems to be the ones that lack the pixel shaders needed for the neat glow eddetcs though for some reason the 4mx is included o well

Darkmane · Apr 21, 2005, 06:14 PM // 18:14

It is kinda funny they have a list of unsupported. But no list of supported. So.. no one knows what they should upgrade to. I can run the game on my computer which is on the list of unsupported. It could be that they plan on having a future 'upgrade' that will render runing the game on these 'unsupported cards' useless. But I do not know for sure.

Lunarbunny · Apr 21, 2005, 06:35 PM // 18:35

If you want you could cruise through the graphics card section of www.pricewatch.com. Just make sure that the company you're buying from has a good number of positive reviews on pricewath before you buy at their site.

As far as drivers, you may want to check out www.guru3d.com. They have some later drivers than the manufacturer's "official" release currently on the site. That does mean that you may have to try different drivers from guru3d; sometimes the build sucks and you'll have to use a different one.

EDIT: about the IGP, check if there is an extra RGB out on the mobo. If so, go to BIOS and disable it or turn it down to the lowest memory setting possible. IGP usually leeches off of system memory instead of having its own seperate memory like a normal PCI/AGP/PCI-E expansion card.

Sin · Apr 21, 2005, 06:42 PM // 18:42

Alias_X, it seems to me unsupported is just to cover those people who have that card and it doesn't work (i.e. known issues with the card or drivers) or who will contact tech about, for example: "The screen is flashing when I run the client...I can see the background but it flashes" With the latest and "greatest" nvidia drivers and anti-aliasing set to 2 my gforce 5200 fx does exactly that! Hahaha! What is more odd is anti-aliasing set to 4 and it doesn't do it....No I don't wanna "go figure" that!

Please don't recommend alternate drivers as I am in windows 98 SE also and most of them don't have a version for me, besides 61.76 works fine. No lag, no flashing, no problems. Anyway, I hope you can see one possible reason for the unsupported list: So people will go buy something not on that list if they have a problem and aren't computer saavy enough to figure it out. Though this may not be the exact intention of the unsupported list, it certainly is a reasonable expectation and appears to be the common outcome.

Also some times people won't see a texture or some shading effect but they won't even know what they are missing. The developer knows from comparison to other in-house systems which are supported.

corax5 · Apr 21, 2005, 07:08 PM // 19:08

I was just checking my current graphics card driver and iv got 66.93, I want to get a newer version but im not sure which to get, iv got a GeForceFX 5200 and XP, what do you all think is hte best one to get?

Loviatar · Apr 21, 2005, 07:13 PM // 19:13

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Originally Posted by corax5

I was just checking my current graphics card driver and iv got 66.93, I want to get a newer version but im not sure which to get, iv got a GeForceFX 5200 and XP, what do you all think is hte best one to get?

note the 5 FX line has a problem just a moment while i get the cure for you

I am using a NVidia GeForce FX video card and am having trouble seeing some terrain features.

There is a known issue with NVidia GeForce FX video cards (GPUs) and driver version 61.77 when the user has changed "Image Settings" to "High performance". Some of the problems include missing terrain. The solution is to change your video settings to "High quality". To do this, follow these instructions: On Windows XP:
Open Display Properties control panel
Click Settings tab
Click Advanced button
Click GeForce "Version" tab
Select Performance and Quality Settings in left window
In the Global Driver Settings window select Image Settings
Move the slider to the right to "High quality"

Sin · Apr 21, 2005, 07:15 PM // 19:15

corax, the more recent nvidia drivers seem troublsome--like they hired the pre ATI 9000 card programmers.

I use 61.77 without a problem, if anything I'd suggest going backwards to that version as anything after that seems buggy.

My specs...

1.3 ghz Celeron Talatin core
512/133 ram
nvidia 5200 Fx 128 video ram

*Edit* Hahaha see I never went for high performance. No wonder. However when you search around you find people with the later drivers than 61.77 having fan problems and apparently that was remedied in the lastest nvidia drivers released a couple days ago. However, when I put AA at 2 on the latest drivers the screen flashes, whereas the old drivers no problem at all. I'd strongly suggest sticking with 61.77 and just putting the slider at quality. I dont' even have it at High Quality.