Guild wars + 81.85 nvidia 7800 == suckage

[blckgrffn]

I'll try those tomorrow, I am just getting sick of using beta's all the time to try and fix the issue...

Probably try a fresh rebuild at some point, but with all my other games running just peachy it is hard to justify at this point. Besides, my guest gaming box is the one I play it on now, thankfully my CRT has two monitor inputs and I just use another KB & mouse, etc...

Nat

 

[Matt2]

How much you want for the GT?? J/K

Sucks man, just gotta find the driver that will work for ya.

 

[Avalon]

Hmm, I haven't played GW in a while Nat. I just upgraded to the 81.85 drivers too. Let me fire the game up on my 6200 and see what happens.

Wow, that is HORRIBLE. The textures will return to normal if you move around a little, but as soon as you get to a new area, there they are again. I'm at one of the towns in the Shiverpeak mountains. Try moving your view back and forth on snowy mountains. It shimmers visibly. That makes my eyes water

:|

 

[Gstanfor]

Give the 79.11's a try. You can get them from www.tweaksrus.com or www.guru3d.com

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
Give the 79.11's a try. You can get them from www.tweaksrus.com or www.guru3d.com

Awesome, will do. Thanks!

:thumbsup:

*Edit*
These drivers are a MUST. They cured all my GW texture problems, and the game looks great once again sans shimmering. I even gained 60 3dmarks, lol. Thanks again Gstanfor.

Nat, get these now.

 

[Polish3d]

I've tried almost all, and the 79.11's are by far the best. Better performance and better image quality

 

[5150Joker]

Do the 79.11's work better (faster) than 81.85 in BF2?

 

[Polish3d]

For me yes, better IQ too. THe oth er drivers were missing details in both BF2 and Lost Coast.

 

[blckgrffn]

Ah, I wanted to stick with these for my hours playing FEAR... any thoughts on that? And still, it is ridiculous having to switch drivers around like this for games. Its like the days of owning my 8500 all over again...

Avalon - thanks a BUNCH for checking it out for me, I was still beginning to think I was crazy as the only one complaining about it

 

[Jaskalas]

Does Guild Wars still have problems if I were to upgrade to the latest driver?

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Does Guild Wars still have problems if I were to upgrade to the latest driver?

Didn't you read anything in this thread?
The latest drivers (81.xx) cause texture problems for GW. Use the 79.11 drivers, and everything will be peachy.

 

[pontifex]

i'm glad my evga 7800gt doesn't have this problem. all my games run great with the 81.85 drivers

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: pontifex
i'm glad my evga 7800gt doesn't have this problem. all my games run great with the 81.85 drivers

Then you haven't tried GW with the latest drivers. All 6 and 7 series cards should be effected.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: blckgrffn

Originally posted by: munky
Damn, that's some blocky shadows!

Those aren't shadows, those are the textures They are supposed to blend like the third picture.

wow thats bad.

 

[blckgrffn]

Yep, but evidently not worth nvidia's attention... of course, Hard OCP says everything is fine, so it must be

 

[hans030390]

This happened for me too...if you change the video settings in game, it goes away for some reason.

If this is a big problem for you, just switch back to some older drivers. Sometimes Nvidia will screw up on drivers.

 

[pontifex]

sounds like a game problem, not a card problem then. if this was a card issue, then everyone would have a problem. i have not run into this problem at all. i play bf2 and people get this problem in bf2. if its a card problem, then i should get it too right?

 

[T101]

*irony on* It's problems like these that makes me so happy I just got a 7800GT..... *irony off*

Seriously. I have been using ATI cards since the end of the GF4 era. And have enjoyed the fact that they fix issues rather quickly with games. Every month there is now drivers, and most issues I have had has been resolved.

So, to come to the point why I answered in this thread. How often do nVidia update their drivers?
(I have the same bugs in Guild Wars too).