Questions About Graphics, Videos & Video Cards.

Hello,

Since 25/05/2010, Nvidia has released a new serie of drivers (the 257 serie).
Actually, there is a beta version of the new released driver available at :

http://downloads.guru3d.com/ForceWar...load-2546.html

It's a beta version, if you download it, it's at you own risk.
I've just downloaded it and I'll give it a try in Rig'n'Roll after the restart process.
Addition : 14:30
I've tested it for 30 mins. Don't expect miracles No change. (on Geforce 6800 GT)

Here is the info :

NVIDIA has released the first series 257 drivers, this is revision 257.15 BETA which carries support for a large amount of GeForce graphics cards.

The 257.15 beta driver includes the PhysX 9.10.0222 system software, the HD audio 1.0.9.1 driver, and has support for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300 and 400 (GTX 465 too) series desktop cards, and the ION GPUs.

* Adds support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology.
* Increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games. 4 example:
o Up to 14% in Aliens vs. Predator (1920x1200 noAA/AF – Tessellation on)
o Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham Asylum (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF PhysX=High)
o Up to 5% in BattleForge (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Very High settings)
o Up to 5% in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 4% in Crysis: Warhead (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Enthusiast setting)
o Up to 24% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (1920x1200 no AA/AF)
o Up to 9% in Far Cry 2 (2560x1600 8xAA/16xAF)
o Up to 25% in Just Cause 2 (2560x1600 no AA/AF - Concrete Jungle)
o Up to 7% in Metro 2033 (1920x1200 no AA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
o Up to 40% in Metro 2033 with SLI ((1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
o Up to 8% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1920x1200 no AA/AF – Day)
o Up to 110% in Stone Giant with SLI (2650x1600 – Tessellation on, DoF on)
o Up to 6% in The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena (2560x1600 no AA/AF)
o Up to 9% in Unigine: Tropics (2560x1600 no AA/AF – OpenGL)
o Up to 5% in 3DMark Vantage (Performance and Extreme Presets)
o Up to 19% with Transparency AA (1920x1200 4xTrSS – measured in Crysis)
* Adds support for OpenGL 4.0 for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs.
* Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1 which includes significant performance increases for double precision math operations.
* Adds support for new extreme Antialiasing modes for 3-way SLI PCs, including up to SLI48x AA for GeForce 200 series GPUs and up to SLI96x AA for GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs.
* Adds support for a new ‘Quality’ mode for NVIDIA’s Ambient Occlusion control panel feature.
* Adds a new Nvidia Control Panel setup page for SLI and PhysX for ultimate control over multi-gpu configurations.
* Adds a new Nvidia Control Panel feature for ultimate control over CUDA GPUs, allowing the user to effectively choose which GPU will power each CUDA application.
* Includes numerous bug fixes

[Ardbug]

Whenever I exit the game my desktop colours are all bugged with red lines/dots all over, I have to restart the machine to get the right colour palette again.

[M76]

Sounds like you have a video card problem, have you seen similar dots or distortions in other games?

Either your video card is faulty or the driver doesn't clean up the memory properly after returning to the 2d video mode from d3d. Try using another driver.

[USA Trucker]

What is your video card?

[Ardbug]

Im on XP 32 with a gtx 260 with the newest WHQL drivers.
When I exit the game to the main menu, I can see the main menu colour palette is distorted too, but if I alt+tab to desktop, and then alt+tab back into the game then the colour palette is back to normal, and if I exit the game after that then the colour palette on my desktop is normal too.
(edit) I dont have this problem in any other game.

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by Ardbug

Im on XP 32 with a gtx 260 with the newest WHQL drivers.
When I exit the game to the main menu, I can see the main menu colour palette is distorted too, but if I alt+tab to desktop, and then alt+tab back into the game then the colour palette is back to normal, and if I exit the game after that then the colour palette on my desktop is normal too.
(edit) I dont have this problem in any other game.

This is the first time I have encountered such a question. I will leave it up to the computer savvy people to aid you.

[Ardbug]

Originally Posted by USA Trucker

This is the first time I have encountered such a question. I will leave it up to the computer savvy people to aid you.

I must admit I have never seen this one before either, but the workaround seem to consistantly work, alt+tab to desktop, then alt+tab back to game, then exit with no problems, odd

[dose77]

Hi @ all Trucker...

Anyone knows why i can't switch on the antialiasing?

Bye

Hi Truckers,

I hope anyone can help me...
I have the problem that i cant switch on the antialiasing in the game menu but i dont know why.
Maybe anyone can help me please?
I tried to search for a solution at google / in the forum but i didnt find anything.

Greetings
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My System:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
4GB RAM
Geforce 9800 GTX+
Windows Prof. XP

[Kimmy]

Any one else experienced this?

I’ve been playing the game for a few days. Runs just fine. Then it rained. My framerate took a dive, almost to the point of being a slideshow.

Is this a known problem or am I unlucky again?

[Superduty]

I has ATI Radeon X850 XT 256MB DDR video card. It do support both of 3D and Open GL. I want to know which is best for game?