Strange graphic artefacts with new Forceware Driver 182.85

[gunhawk007 10]

!!!CORRECTTION : DRIVER IS 185.85 - not 182.85 as referred by the topic header!!!

Hi,

just curious to find out whether it's just me or if anyone is also experiencing anomalies with the latest NVIDIA Graphics driver Forceware 185.85.

The error is reproducable by 100% - rolling back to previous driver, probs are gone. The effect is visible in vanilla Arma V1.16beta causing blurr effect on textures and make blended text passages flickering, but running together with the ACE community mod 1.07 and lately 1.08 it is fatal (hung on intro screen)

I can provide screenshots on request demonstrate.

I have opened the ticket with ACE mod team as well but as said the bug also affects vanilla Arma as well. I also contacted NVIDIA, but also the suggested roll back to the latest beta driver 185.81 (in between the successfull 185.50 and the failing 185.85) did not help.

My specs are as follows:

OS: VISTA 64 with 8GB

CPU: Intel Q9650 @ 4* 3GHz

GR: NVIDIA 8800GTX

Regards Gunhwawk

Edited May 21, 2009 by Gunhawk007
Corretion of driver version

[no use for a name 0]

I have a GTX 260 using those drivers and the game runs better then ever. I am using the XG drivers; but I don't know if that would make a difference. When you installed the new ones did you do a clean install? i.e. uninstall old drivers, reboot to safe mode, run driver cleaner, restart and install 182.85's

[gunhawk007 10]

I have a GTX 260 using those drivers and the game runs better then ever. I am using the XG drivers; but I don't know if that would make a difference. When you installed the new ones did you do a clean install? i.e. uninstall old drivers, reboot to safe mode, run driver cleaner, restart and install 182.85's

Hi,

I can definitively rule out installation probs. This issue is pretty muchreproducable - just installing the new driver and the probs are there, removingand get back to the old one and its all fine.

Posted this to Nvidia and got the recommendation to stay with the old driver for now.

Regards Gunhawk

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Have you tried 185.85whql?

They worked fine with my old 8800gtx, and so far, working great on a gtx260. (still waiting on 2nd gtx260 to arrive)

[gunhawk007 10]

Hi BigBear,

I have misspelled the driver in the topic line - I am experiencing my problems with the Forcware Driver 185.85, which currently is the latest available WHQL driver. Since you are running fine with it there must be something wrong!

The probs get solved instantly when rolling back to the previous WHQL driver, which is 182.50

Are you running Vista 64 as your OS and does it have >4GB memory?

My specs are

Vista 64 with 8GB RAM

NVIDIA 8800GTX

Intel Q9650 Quadcore CPU @ 4*3GHz

Regards Gunhawk

Edited May 21, 2009 by Gunhawk007

[no use for a name 0]

if you don't do a clean install, the previous can leave some files and registry entries that will conflict with the new driver. so every time you roll back it will work because those entries are already loaded, and vice-verse

[gunhawk007 10]

if you don't do a clean install, the previous can leave some files and registry entries that will conflict with the new driver. so every time you roll back it will work because those entries are already loaded, and vice-verse

Ok I will follow through this and post if this will fix it

Thanks

Gunhawk

[gunhawk007 10]

Hi all,

just to confirm, I did a deinstall of the old driver using normal windows deinstallation feature, rebooted in savemode and deleted the driver stuff using Driver Sweeper (suggested by NVIDIA), rebooted into normal and reinstalled the latest available NVIDIA Driver, which is 185.85 WHQL.

However, I actually got exactly what I had before, so the Driver at least on my config Vista64 8GB is not working with Arma 1.16beta and ACE 1.08 Mod

Regards Gunhawk

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Yes, I'm Vista 64 SP2 RC, 4 gig ram.......but AMD cpu's, 2x2@3ghz.

My 8800's have been replaced with 260's by Asus. (What brand is yours?)

I didn't get much gameplay with 185.85 on the 8800, but I did not have any abnormalities like you speak of.

Edit= We need a Mod to edit the thread title plz.

Edited May 22, 2009 by SWAT_BigBear

[gunhawk007 10]

Hi SWAT_BigBear,

I am using a XFX 8800GTX with latest NVIDIA driver 185.85, but I have 8GB RAM and Vista 64 SP1.

I have read that Arma had problems with Nvidia Cards recently when crossing the 4GB RAM boundary - but may be wrong nor I am confident that this is the reason, but it must an be a Arma/driver issue as when rolling back to the old driver, the visuals are fine!

Unfortunately this board does not allow for attachments, but I have two screenshots demonstrating the visual effects I am seeing when running ACE 1.08 with Domination Mission

Regards Gunhawk

[maddogx 13]

Gunhawk, you could upload the screenshots to a free image hoster and link to them. (Remember don't hotlink them if they're >100KB :))

I've tested the latest 185.85 drivers with my GTX285, ArmA 1.16b and ACE mod 1.08 and don't see any problems. I have Vista x64 with 4GB, see my sig.

I'm curious, do the graphical errors occur immediately when you start the game, or do they start popping up after a while? Also, have you perhaps activated the new ambient occlusion feature that came with the latest NVidia driver? Not sure if that could cause problems, but I guess it's worth checking. :)

[Yoma 0]

I have VISTA x64 SP1 Q9650, 6GB RAM and 8800GTX, on 182.50 all works great (with texture settings to "default").

If i install the newer 185 driver, i get CTD's after a while, blabla nvidia driver stopped responding...

So over here 182.50 works just fine!

Could it be the SP2 RC that's screwing you over?

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Could it be the SP2 RC that's screwing you over?

I believe I'm the only 1 using SP2 RC in this thread?

No, I was screwed by Asus and their overheating 8800gtx, Thus they are dieing after 2+ yrs usage.

185.85 worked fine on the 2nd 8800, but Asus let me go ahead and RMA it for the already replaced 8800 with a 260, so my SLI matches properly.

It's also an open RMA, in case I'm not satisfied.:)