General Barron 0 Posted December 16, 2004 A few weeks ago I reinstalled windows. Now I reinstalled OFP. I had to try a couple times to get the patches to work, but now I'm all patched up to v1.96 and ready to go! ...but, when I run OFP, the island is all white! I have the latest graphics card drivers (just reinstalled them to no avail), and I have tried turning on/off multi-texturing, but it hasn't worked. It only works when I turn off hardware T&L, but that makes everything run like poop. If you want me to make you more confused, well, here goes. Before this, I installed CWC, and ran it, and everything was fine. Then I had trouble patching and installing resistance, so I uninstalled everything, then reinstalled. That brought me to where I am now. Dunno if that helps any, but it is odd.... Could it be a bad installation of some sort? I've been having troubles with my DVD drive after the reinstall (windows thinks it is a CD drive, and it usually doesn't read CDs), and sometimes been having trouble with my CD drive as well (if anyone can help me out on that, I'd appreciate it too . I know almost nothing about hardware, but hopefully here are the needed specs: AMD Athlon XP1700+ 1.51 Ghz, 768 MB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Please help! I wanna get back into OFP again! Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sanctuary 19 Posted December 16, 2004 Have you tried to install an older driver to see if this problem is specific to the latest driver you are using actually or not ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Barron 0 Posted December 16, 2004 No, but I think it is the same driver i was using before the reinstall... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theavonlady 2 Posted December 16, 2004 Backup the following files and then delete them in OFP: OFP\flashpoint.cfg OFP\Users\yourPlayerName\userinfo.cfg Then run the OFPR preferences program, click on AUTODETECT and then on START. Any help? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
noundo 0 Posted December 16, 2004 I have the same problem. Seems like it's only the larger islands though, and it has started happening since I installed the latest Catalyst drivers. The orginal islands all work fine (Everon, Malden, kolgy) I didn't try Nogova though. The ones I had problems with were GAIA, and Mungaria (sp). I'll try downgrading drivers and see what shakes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Barron 0 Posted December 16, 2004 Backup the following files and then delete them in OFP:OFP\flashpoint.cfg OFP\Users\yourPlayerName\userinfo.cfg Then run the OFPR preferences program, click on AUTODETECT and then on START. Any help? Afraid it didn't help.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Madus_Maximus 0 Posted December 16, 2004 Aren't Catalyst for erm... ATi cards? You need nVIDIA drivers seeing as you have an FX 5200. Look on www.nvidia.com then go to downloads. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sanctuary 19 Posted December 17, 2004 Aren't Catalyst for erm... ATi cards? You need nVIDIA drivers seeing as you have an FX 5200. Look on www.nvidia.com then go to downloads. noundo and General Barron seem to be 2 separate individuals That said even if you think it is the same driver , as disabling HWT&L fixes the problem there is a lot of chances the problem is the driver (or at least a setting of this driver that is different from the first time you used it, try with riva tuner the direct3d options and see if something can be done there). You should try an older driver if you can't fix it by changing some of the driver settings. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Madus_Maximus 0 Posted December 17, 2004 Oops, need me readers on. I was doing several things at once when typing that hehe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Madus_Maximus 0 Posted December 17, 2004 If you have the BETA drivers then I'd get rid of them. I tried them and whilst they seem to boost performance a little, they're a bit iffy as they made the bottom left of my screen fuzzy in Flashpoint. Use the latest digitially signed drivers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Barron 0 Posted December 17, 2004 Quote[/b] ]try with riva tuner the direct3d options and see if something can be done there Um.... where do I access that? I looked under the display properties, and didn't see anything specifically for direct3d. Just a bunch of options to turn on/off that I don't understand about antialiasing, etc. Quote[/b] ]You should try an older driver if you can't fix it by changing some of the driver settings. Where would I get older drivers? The nvidea page only gives me their latest driver. I have v66.93 (9 nov 04), and that isn't the beta driver. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sanctuary 19 Posted December 17, 2004 Riva Tuner is not installed with your graphic card, it is a well known and usefull 3rd party program that allow you to change/tweak a lot of settings that are "hidden" by default in your control panel. But, before installing, check if riva tuner support the latest nvidia driver you are using (as i have no idea if it does) , the author update his program often, when the driver evolves , but sometime it can take several weeks. In that case , try with what you have in the control pannel, if you have no idea , google can help. For Riva tuner here you go to open the D3D tweaks (obviously , numbers and references will not be the same for your system) 1 2 3 If you don't understand the settings, use the contextual help (click on the "?" then on the setting) before changing anythin if you have no idea what it can do. If you notice that some settings can't be accessed (they are gray-ed) , it is normal, because some of them are specific to a specific version of the nvidia driver or just are not supported by your videocard . If no settings from riva tuner can fix your problem (i assume you just tried first to reinstall OFP then Resistance then patch 1.96 again before trying to change settings, to see if you have no file corrupted in your actual OFP installation), only then try a previous driver (not too old if you play very recent videogames, in that case do not try anything lower than the 44.03, other recent games -will- have problems with too old drivers). To access the nvidia (official, not beta) driver archive, click on the link for your OS : version window 9x/ME version window 2000/XP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bonko the sane 2 Posted December 17, 2004 http://downloads.guru3d.com/ here you can get most drivers known to mankind Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Barron 0 Posted December 23, 2004 Ok, I tried reinstalling OFP, and still no good. I still see white unless I disable HWT&L. However, when I run OFP: CWC, I can see the island, even with HWT&L enabled. Strange. Just to be sure, I copied my old Res/data/HWTL files over from my old system drive, and it still didn't work. Thanks for the detailed instructions on how to use RivaTuner, Sanctuary. I'll check it out and see if it will work, although I have no idea what settings to change, so if anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. Also looking in my old system drive, I see that I used to have version 56.72 drivers installed, dated 03/24/2004. I guess I'll redownload that version if I can't get anything to work with Riva Tuner. -EDIT- Okay, after playing around for a bit with Riva Tuner and having no success, I decided I had no idea what I was doing. So I uninstalled my driver, and installed v56.72, and... IT WORKS! Yay, I'm very happy. Thanks for the help, everybody! If anyone happens to know what the problem could have been, or if/how I could configure the latest drivers to work, please let me know still. Thanks again! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sanctuary 19 Posted December 23, 2004 Ah, i knew it was a driver problem. Sometime Nvidia optimize their driver for a specific new game , just released and potentially a huge seller and so something that can have an impact on Nvidia reputation . Imagine the "argh my gf card can't run half life 2 smoothly !!" that would have occured if Nvidia didn't focused his effort on running this latest huge seller game and the impact on their future videocard selling, it was the same case for Far Cry when they optimised their driver for it. And, the side effect is of course very negative on the majority of the other games, especially on (very) older ones. That is why updating to the latest drivers is not always the best solution, and maybe you ran into one of those "specific game focused driver" on your system Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Barron 0 Posted December 23, 2004 Didn't know about that. Thanks for the info! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shinRaiden 0 Posted December 23, 2004 For GeForce 4 4200 - 4800 your best bet is the 45.23. On the GeForce FX 5X00 series either 53.04 or 56.72. For Geforce 6X00 series a 6X driver is needed. I'm using 66.93 now on my 6600 GT OC. If you prefer Omega drivers pick the one from the appropiate class for your card. I tried a 61.xx I think on my 5600 and it scrambled the video on OFP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sanctuary 19 Posted December 24, 2004 If you play recent (in term of graphics) videogames on a nvidia card, you must not use a driver older than the 43.45 ones, whatever is the nvidia graphic card you have. The majority of those recent videogames use some features that have been supported by nvidia drivers only starting with the 43.45 drivers serie (i talk only about official drivers, as some 43.xx beta drivers added already the same feature support). If you play one of those recent videogames on a driver pre-43.45 you will immediately notice huge graphics bugs. But, if you don't play those recent games, you can use older drivers without encountering any problem with OFP . That and what shinRaiden said , as some drivers are more optimised to some cards and most of the time should degrade performance on older cards (i noticed that enough time with all my drivers testing on my GF2 system). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites