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I'm using a Gainward geForce4 ti4200 with the latest nVidia Detenator drivers, 41.09, on WinXP and am constantly having system crashes when playing games like OFP and Mafia. I am only guessing that it's the drivers causing me problems, although I have also installed DirectX 9 recently and can't be sure that's not the actual cause of the problem. Anyone else using the nVidia drivers having system crashes or other problems?

Sorry, I was talking about the xp/2k drivers.

I haven't had much luck with beta drivers as of yet, but thanks, I'll take a look at em.

I've found that I also get crashes using 41.09 when playing video playback, like a dvd etc. To solve these probs i need to go back to at least 40.72, but then I get texture problems in unreal 2 and gta3 and some other games, and if I go back to 30.82 then I don't have control over my refresh rate etc. (I can set up to at least 120hz but my system says that my monitor doens't support it, though I know it does). So for now I just gotta keep exchanging drivers. bummer.

They have those drivers listed on their website now, so enoy.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Greg @ Jan. 11 2003,21:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Please describe the crash. I have recently started getting crashes that freeze the game. Â I sometimes see a moving mouse cursor, but can't continue the game and can't ALT-TAB or CTRL-ALT-DEL. Â I too upgraded to 41.09 also OFP v1.90 recently.<span id='postcolor'> Yeah. I was having crashes like that, and also sometimes the computer would just restart. I went back to 40.72 (only ones I could find) and the crashes stopped, but am just about to dl the 42.01 drivers and see how they worked for me.

I've got the same stick and the same problem. The joystick does work on games other than OFP too though. Joysticks weren't made for OFP. So if you aren't happy with it, why don't you just refund it? But yes, it would be nice if BIS could sort this problem out for all us fools.

Actually I just made a new thread about this topic, but it might look more impressive if there's several threads for BIS to look at about the same subject. Maybe it'll encourage them to fix this. Please BIS. Could you please please please do it? Ohhh c'mon. You can do it.

I have just bought a Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 because I love force feedback in games. I have tried it in OFP, but the effects are weak as, and the centre springing won't even work. I did a search on this topic and found a post for 1 year ago by someone complaining about the same thing. (I didn't bump it cause I thought 1 year is a bit old) I know force feedback works because about 2 yrs ago when I bought this game I had a Logitech Force 3D and force feedback worked great. That joystick died just outside it's used by date. I went for about a year with out any game devices, then I got a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad, and again the force feedback was good, but this controller didn't like my computer for some reason and would rarely work. So I refunded it and got this Sidewinder. I also own and still sometimes play Descent 3, and in this game the force effects do not even work at all, although the centre springing works at least. Now I'm assuming this problem with this particular device has been around since the game was released, and that it is common to all who own this game device and not just me. So since this is a popular brand of joystick, and a respected brand also (well, their peripherals are respected, and I guess even their software is too. I know the company isn't) does BIS think they can do something about this bug. Please please please. I love this game and I love this joystick too (when it works). Please make my OFP experience all the more enjoyable.

After having my old computer stolen I once again have a Soundblaster Live card. I also have Resistance and one of the first things I did when I got the sb Live was to try it out on a good EAX game. I found that the EAX problem still hadn't been fixed. I get a static like sound when I move on foot, and an almost crackling static noise when some vehicles are moving. Well at least I don't have footsteps and heavy breathing echoing in my brain. One thing I did notice though was that there seems to be a lot of echo when using hw/accel and EAX in OFP. When running in a town area I hear my footsteps echo repeatedly for about 1 second. That's a lot of echo. Are these problems ever going to be fixed? OFP is one of the main reasons why I want to have good surround sound.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oilerpunk @ Aug. 22 2002,07:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Anybody seen Mr.Lukin recently?<span id='postcolor'> I think he went over there........................

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oilerpunk @ Aug. 22 2002,07:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Anybody seen Mr.Lukin recently?<span id='postcolor'> I think he went over there........................

Big kick applied to the left side of your computer. If that doesn't work try kicking the right side. ;Å¢

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DragonFireSG @ Aug. 21 2002,17:00)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I've heard that Logitech claims "no tech support" for people using the PS/2 adapter.<span id='postcolor'> Well that sucks cause I remember reading in the documentation when I bought my optical cordless ifreedom package (which has since been nicked, spewing) something like "The PS/2 adapter should be used when ever a PS/2 port is available".

Well don't worry about it. I've been playing it more and I've started noticing it again. I think it's not as loud as it was b4 though. I think I've started noticing it because I've been using headphones for the last couple of days.

Ok. It seems to have fixed itself somehow now. All I did was after changing the settings (sliding the geometry slider to the far right) I opened the flashpoint.cfg file to see what values it had stored in there. It seemed to be around what I had set it at. I then ran the game and while in game I alt+tabbed and checked again. The values were the same. Then I shut the game down, checked, they were the same. Then ran the preferences application and the slider hadn't reset itself this time. I was then also able to set the LOD's and all the texutre sizes and they stayed at the right values also. Sexcellent. I would just like to thank me for all my help....8) Just hope this helps anyone else in the same situation. I don't understand how what I did could've fixed that problem though as I didn't actually DO anything.

I have been trying to set this to the far right to see how it alters game performance but every time I do it resets back to a default of around 3500. It does this if I run the game or not before opening the setup util again. This is a problem for me as the Geometry Performance seems to be responsible for displaying the high quality trees (the round ones), and they are a big reason why I wanted to buy Resistance. I have to mess around alot to get them to display properly, and at my current setting I tried a mission on Kolgujev and noticed that most of these trees are displaying properly, but not all of them. Is this meant to be the case on Kolgujev? My system specs are as follows: Athlon XP 1700+ (1.5g) 256 DDR RAM GeForce 4 Ti 4200, 128 Mb

Umm...It says specifically on the download page for the Live drivers NOT to use them on an Audigy card as they won't install anyway............

The echo I was talking about is just excessive. I understand fully what eax is meant to do. But the scratchy/white noise is now fixed, for xp/200 at least. I got the newest drivers from creative and all the eax/creative related problems seem to be fixed now. Hooray! for creative and Hooray! for BIS!!!

Yes. I've hit both start and exit many, many times. It doesn't exactly make the landscape smoother. That's what I thought at first too but realised it's not a 'geography' setting. I think it's meant to set how much cpu is being used for all the transformation etc. calculations or something like that. And reducing the framerate makes ofp always show the crap models for trees etc. (I know they don't have 4 or 5 different models for every tree etc., but you know what I mean) That's another thing. I don't think that my setting the LOD's does much either. I remember being able to have the shadows set so that all the shadows blend, but now I can get it so most of them blend but the trees' shadows have like a lighter colour outline on them and it kinda looks weird when you walk through them. The shadows and objects all look the same no matter what I set the LOD's at. It's not a big deal, but I like perfection. 8) The setting that the geometry slider keeps setting to is 3355. If I change it, when I exit or start and come back it's back to 3355 again, and all my other adjustments I made before are changed again. Anyone able to help with this??? Is there maybe like a cfg file or something where all this info is stored that I can edit manually?

Yeah. I dl'd the XP drivers the other day too and tried turning HW acceleration back on and everything seems fine. Sexcellent... 8)

WHY WHY WHY!!! Doesn't anyone know what is causing me this problem, or how to get around it?

Hey. I get a prob a bit like this too. I got: Athlon XP 1700+ (1.5) 256 DDR GeForce 4 Ti4200 SB Live DE Can't remember exactly what my mobo is but I'll rummage and get back to ya's. The benchmark I get in OFP is like around 4000 when I'm lucky. 4400 max. Does that sound right to you guys. I'm no pro at optimising my pute.

Yeah. Sorry Placebo. I thought that the geometry setting was introduced in Resistance. I hadn't noticed it before. Anyway, does anyone else get this problem?

I have been trying to set this to the far right to see how it alters game performance but every time I do it resets back to a default of around 3500. It does this if I run the game or not before opening the setup util again. This is a problem for me as the Geometry Performance seems to be responsible for displaying the high quality trees (the round ones), and they are a big reason why I wanted to buy Resistance. I have to mess around alot to get them to display properly, and at my current setting I tried a mission on Kolgujev and noticed that most of these trees are displaying properly, but not all of them. Is this meant to be the case on Kolgujev? My system specs are as follows: Athlon XP 1700+ (1.5g) 256 DDR RAM GeForce 4 Ti 4200, 128 Mb