Weird graphics problem...

[ndicki 22]

Yet another challenging problem - from time to time, never at any one moment but always as a result of moving from one screen to another (loading to play, play to result, etc), I suddenly get horizontal black-white-grey snow, in lines which vibrate up and down vertically. Pressing Esc or ctrl+alt+del has no real effect, except that the lines of snow go vaguely the same colour as my desktop.

 

All my installs of SFG do this. Other games (CFS3 and 2) and applications run correctly.

 

Specs: Windows XP Home, English, P4C 2.8GHz on Asus P4V-800X with 1.75GB DDR1 RAM, Nvidia 7600GS. Updating the drivers - updated today to 175.19_geforce_winxp_32bit, release date 16/05/2008 - does not help. I ran Driver Cleaner after disinstalling the old drivers prior to updating. Previous drivers were 169.21.

 

After each "crash", I'm obliged to use the escape button, as there seems to be no other way out.

 

Anybody got any suggestions?

[MigBuster 2,884]

I use a GeForce 7600GT and have been told that the best drivers for the GEForce 7600 are the last ones properly made compatible with it - in my case Forceware 93.71

 

Neither Falcon or any 3rd wire games would respond properly to advanced settings made with the latest drivers.

 

Have you installed the actual drivers for the monitor also - or are you using the Windows default ones?

Edited August 20, 2008 by MigBuster

[ndicki 22]

I use a GeForce 7600GT and have been told that the best drivers for the GEForce 7600 are the last ones properly made compatible with it - in my case Forceware 93.71

 

Neither Falcon or any 3rd wire games would respond properly to advanced settings made with the latest drivers.

 

Have you installed the actual drivers for the monitor also - or are you using the Windows default ones?

 

That might just be it - as SFG is hardly the latest game around, despite its qualities! It did use to run correctly, so it may well be a problem with too up-to-date drivers. The monitor drivers are Windows, but have worked well for years.

 

Off to try and find 93.71 - thanks!

[MigBuster 2,884]

Pretty sure you can still get it from the main NVIDIA site

[ndicki 22]

Got it - you're right.

 

Just had the chance to test it, and it's never worked better! Thanks again.