cryptomorph 1 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 I'm sure many of you have nVidia videocards. So since there's no support there I'll ask here. Of all the unified drivers they've put out in the last year all seem to create giant snowflakes in GR. Is there any fix? If not what was the last nVidia driver that didn't cause this problem and where can I get it. Also.... is there any way to get the vNidia settings icon back in the systray. This has been another perennial problem. It disappears and there's no way I can find though their desktop manager to get it back. Yet that's where all the controls for anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing are. I went though their manual.... 259 pages... and not a peep about this. Thanks!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyHaired 0 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 That's funny. This problem popped up - what? - 2 years ago or so. Think it was a driver question. As a rule of thumbs: GeForce 3.. series: use the 30.xx drivers GeForce 4.. series: use the 40.xx drivers FX 5 series: use the 50.xx drivers and so on. The other question: when you right-click your desktop - properties - settings- advanced, doesn't the Nvidia menu show? Edit: Use "DriverCleanerPro" from http://www.driverheaven.net to remove the gfx drivers and (re)-install the drivers that match your card. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colin 0 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 I am using the same set and dont have a problem. Are you uninstalling the previous version prior to install.?? Colin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Wierd indeed! I used to have that issue, but since I used the 77.30 drivers no problem. I think I still egt them if nightvision is on though.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptomorph 1 Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 That's funny. This problem popped up - what? - 2 years ago or so. Think it was a driver question. As a rule of thumbs: GeForce 3.. series: use the 30.xx drivers GeForce 4.. series: use the 40.xx drivers FX 5 series: use the 50.xx drivers and so on. ← Thanks for responding. I know I've had this problem for at least a year.... maybe going back to spring 04. You mention all these series specific drivers, yet nVidia moved to a unified driver for all its cards: http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_uda.html When I go though their checklist http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp it never asks me what series I have. I only get this page: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.95.html Yes, I did uninstall the driver before reinstalling it.... but I've heard that nVidia is notorious for leaving files behind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptomorph 1 Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 The other question: when you right-click your desktop - properties - settings- advanced, doesn't the Nvidia menu show? ← Wahoo!!! Thanks. I've been trying to find some basic settings in the desktop manager. Obviously they aren't there. Yet I wonder why the settings icon in the systray keeps disappearing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptomorph 1 Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 (edited) Wierd indeed! I used to have that issue, but since I used the 77.30 drivers no problem. I think I still egt them if nightvision is on though.... ← Where are you getting your driver version? When I go into Device Manager > Hardware I get this as my nVidia driver version: 7.8.0.1 BTW I have a 5900XT.... woof woof! What a dog! Edited December 8, 2005 by cryptomorph Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyHaired 0 Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 You find older drivers in the nvidia driver archive: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 BTW I have a 5900XT.... woof woof! What a dog! ← I have the same card, so if you run the same drivers as me, you should not get the snowflake issue.... And what does "woof woof what a dog" mean? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyHaired 0 Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Yet I wonder why the settings icon in the systray keeps disappearing. ← "keeps disappearing" do you mean: sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not? It's not a disadvantage that it does not show in the systray. When it does it's because it starts up with Windows and runs in the background all the time (=resources). You can check in msconfig: Click "Start"-"run" and type "msconfig" (no quotes) then click the startup tab to see if the program is there and if it's unchecked. You can then check the box and let the program start up with Windows (and run in the background). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptomorph 1 Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 And what does "woof woof what a dog" mean? ← I bought it thinking it provided full support to DirectX9 only to find out that it didn't. But it was a few generations better than my old gForce2 with 32megs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptomorph 1 Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 You can check in msconfig: Click "Start"-"run" and type "msconfig" (no quotes) then click the startup tab to see if the program is there and if it's unchecked. You can then check the box and let the program start up with Windows (and run in the background). ← I have an app that blocks things being put on the startup menu. When I reinstalled the driver there were about 6-7 requests and I just allowed everything. But I can find no use for the desktop manager... and if I can get to the controls I want thought the desktop properties.... then I'd shut them all off. If I knew I wasn't interfering with the operation of the videocard. It may be all academic if I roll back the driver. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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