Octavian 0 Posted November 16, 2005 posted this on the y2k3 forum, but was told to ask here. well, i bought a new computer a while a go, (atleast its better than the old one) i installed OFP GOTY on both my old computer and the new one. uppdated to 1.96 and installed y2k3 (patched to 7.5 inngame) then i hosted a MFCTI game on everon. about 20 min out in the game, it is choppy as hell. on the old computer however, it were running smooth. and it continued this way for the next 2 hours. ( i played a solider, had ai commanders on both sides) in addition to this, the horizon does not "smoth out" like it used to, now i se the "end" its like a big dark blue wall. everyting is perfectly normal on other games. in addittion to this the weapon moddel gets this white disease when looking in some angels, its like a transparent layer around the weapon. the computers are running the same settings in OFP. specs on the new one. amd 64 4000+ 2.4 ghz 1 gb ram, corsair value hk msi k8n neo4 XFX GF 6800 XP pro sata maxtor hdd Specs on the old one. amd 64 3000+ 2 ghz 512 gb corsair value hk asus k8ne deluxe asus GF 4 TI4400 XP pro old fat cable WD hdd this realy sucks, any ideas on how to fix it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tankieboy 0 Posted November 16, 2005 Send me your new computer and play on your old one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octavian 0 Posted November 16, 2005 that leaves me with 2 problems, i cant play BF2, and i loose 10k NOK Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tankieboy 0 Posted November 16, 2005 Well I see the problem you have. You wanna play BF2! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nubbin77 0 Posted November 16, 2005 Are you sure you are using the same video drivers? I am curious because I am contemplating an upgrade soon, but I don't want to destroy my ofp gameplay in the process. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Cheese 0 Posted November 16, 2005 It's your video card drivers, some of the newer ones cause symptoms like you have described. I know a guy who recently updated who has the 'white gun' and 'huge grey box where fog should be' problems. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octavian 0 Posted November 16, 2005 both computer run the same display drivers 6.14.0010.8185 (English) acording to dxdiag the new one use foreceware drivers for nforce 4, the old one dont use anye forceware drivers, so that might be it, although it shouldnt be the cause. (the old one is nforce3 note that this also happened on a packard bell computer, and that is intel and radeon. pherhaps it ofp is having difficulties with pci-E? Mr. cheese: what videodriver is the newest one that do not cause the white \ grey sicknes? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ti0n3r Posted November 16, 2005 You should try the Omega Drivers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octavian 0 Posted November 16, 2005 on a Nvidia card? saw i forgot to mention, the packard bell pc was returned because "it could not even run ofp smooth" :P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ti0n3r Posted November 16, 2005 on a Nvidia card? Yupp. They're pretty good for OFP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octavian 0 Posted November 16, 2005 sorry my bad, just saw the big "ati" logo at the page :P does it work with other games as well, or do i have to change drivers all the time? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ti0n3r Posted November 16, 2005 sorry my bad, just saw the big "ati" logo at the page :Pdoes it work with other games as well, or do i have to change drivers all the time? Unfortunately most newer games don't run too well with the omega drivers. I had some issues when runing the BF2 demo with them. But they're still the best drivers for OFP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octavian 0 Posted November 16, 2005 il give it a try Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octavian 0 Posted November 16, 2005 the omega drivers didnt do much, possitive that is. but using an older driver XFX 77.77 i solved the white weapon thing AND the horizon bug. using y2k3 7.2 instead of 7.5 solved the performance issuses Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
h - 169 Posted November 16, 2005 Quote[/b] ]Unfortunately most newer games don't run too well with the omega drivers. CoD 2 had quite a poor FPS and I had to run it on mid or low settings to be able to play it... Once updated to latest Omega ATI drivers I could max everything up and no FPS drops etc... Can't say anything about nVidia though.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heatseeker 0 Posted November 16, 2005 The horizon bug was discussed here, it was introduced with 81:85 and fixed in 81:87beta . Has for performance the omega drivers should be the best for OPF:R. Your better system should have the advantage of the extra ram has 512 is not alot. If i was to describe the perfect card for OPF i would problably point my finger on a old dx8 GF4 ti4600 because all latest nvidia drivers seem to make the game run crappy and/or even crash . So regarding GPU's yes, i believe OPF liked old high end video cards more than the latest stuff... You are lucky though, you have a good PC for OPF and another better one for all the new games . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octavian 0 Posted November 16, 2005 yeah, but i cant realt bring 2 computers to a lan:P must buy 2 tickets. besides, the old computer is acting server for me now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mister Frag 0 Posted November 18, 2005 If the problem doesn't appear immediately and crops up 20 minutes into the game or so, then my money would be on an overheating issue -- either the CPU and/or the GPU is getting too hot and throttling back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.COMmunist 0 Posted November 23, 2005 Anyone is using Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 with 256MB? How is that card for OFP? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
action man 0 Posted November 23, 2005 Send me your new computer and play on your old one? No f***k him Send me your'e new comp Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 28 Posted November 24, 2005 In the troubleshooting forum please only post if you have something constructive and useful to post Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
max power 21 Posted November 24, 2005 My brother ran an ATI card with the omega drivers... and let's just say his experience was less than optimal. VPU recover being the operative noun, and reformat being the verb. edit: He could not just reinstall the old drivers over the omega ones. He could not get rid of the omega drivers at all! They would seem to uninstall... I mean, like an office employee that's madly typing away into word-womp, but appearing to anyone who can not see his monitor that he was moving worlds... it seemed to uninstall. ATI has some of the best driver programmers in the world for them. I highly doubt that some 3rd party developer is going to develop and release better drivers. Seeing as you are running an Nvidia machine, this doesn't really apply to you, but I would appeal to anyone reading this to think twice about running the omega drivers. It may not blow up in your face, but it's certainly a possibility. edit: Ho ho ho, maybe I have an answer. Try fiddling with your driver settings. It may be that you're really wasting a lot of cycles on repassing textures or something. If you turn that down, you may not notice much difference in quality but you may notice a huge gain in performance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 28 Posted November 24, 2005 My brother ran an ATI card with the omega drivers... and let's just say his experience was less than optimal. VPU recover being the operative noun, and reformat being the verb. From what I've read VPU Recovery is less than stable no matter what drivers you use, it's always the first thing I turn off when I install new drivers. edit: He could not just reinstall the old drivers over the omega ones. He could not get rid of the omega drivers at all! They would seem to uninstall... I've never had that problem, at the end of the day for optimal stability (In Opf and other games), one should uninstall old drivers completely before installing newer ones, it may appear that each new version can be installed over the top of the previous version but there's no telling what gets left behind. Often times such advice has been handed out in here to someone having problems and it's resolved the problem Personally when I find new drivers to install I do the following: Unistall all entries for the current drivers from "add/remove programs", reboot, cancel the "found new hardware blah blah", use Driver Cleaner to remove any remaining trace of the drivers, reboot, install the new drivers, run DXDIAG to test that everything appears ok. ATI has some of the best driver programmers in the world for them. I highly doubt that some 3rd party developer is going to develop and release better drivers. Historically ATI drivers have been quite bad, certainly they've improved significantly in recent times though, however, as someone who has upgraded through 5 ATI graphic cards I can say 100% the Omega drivers have always provided greater stability and higher image quality, maybe ATI's own drivers are faster, but who cares about one or two extra frames per second when it doesn't look so good? Seeing as you are running an Nvidia machine, this doesn't really apply to you, True but from my experience at least the part about uninstalling completely and using driver cleaner is very sound advice, no matter whether you're using ATI or Nvidia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
max power 21 Posted November 24, 2005 Sound advice. I think he did uninstall them and then reboot and install the new ones. It was a weird problem and his machine would not run IL2 or something with the Omega drivers installed. If the Omega drivers are better for some things, it's a little from column A and a little from column B. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites