Updated driver for Geforce 7600 GT

[weiss]

Hello,

I've just updated the drivers for my Geforce 7600 GT.

Now it isn't possible anymore to play the game in OpenGL (white lines and gaps in the landscape) ...

Direct3D works still.

I am not shure, but I have the feeling that OpenGL with Landscape Textures and Landscape Filtering "on" looked better than Direct3D now ... or I am just imagening things?

What can I do?

Thank you for your help!

[Melekor]

First - Did you update your drivers directly from geforce.com/Drivers ? If not, please do because drivers from 3rd party sources can be out of date and unreliable. The current driver version as of writing is 285.58 - WHQL.

Second - please post the contents of your "myth_log.txt" which can be found in the folder where you installed Myth after you have run the game. It often contains information that may allow us to diagnose the problem.

[weiss]

Helle Melekor,

Thank you for your answer.

I updated my drivers directly from geforce.com/Drivers. I first used the 285.58 Version but it messed up my system when I got the error message that the drivers couldn't be installed. I have also nvidia motherboard drivers and they got somehow demaged ... After repairing the mess I installed theprevious version 280.26 which works except with Open GL.

My "myth_log.txt" says:

2012-02-16 19:37:54
Myth II Build 374 running under Modern Windows 5.010000 ----------------------------------------------
Loading poweruser.txt... not found.
Scanning for software devices...
Found 1 to use
Scanning for Direct3D devices...
Found 1 to use
Scanning for 3Dfx devices...
Found 0 to use
Scanning for OpenGL devices...
Found 1 to use
GeForce 7600 GT/PCI/SSE/3DNOW! | NVIDIA Corporation | OpenGL 2.1
Initialized for DirectSound3D using COM
Loading Patch Files...
Patch 1.2
Patch MariusNet
Patch 1.3
Patch 1.4
Patch 1.4 Interface
Patch 1.5
Loading Patch Files Succeeded
Running Direct3D at 1920 x 1080
Starting mesh "Homecoming" with 1 plugin...
Magma - The Fallen Levels v2
Using 1.7.2 gameplay...
Quitting single player game...
Closing Myth.

When I start it with Open GL it says:

2012-02-17 14:02:48
Myth II Build 374 running under Modern Windows 5.010000 ----------------------------------------------
Loading poweruser.txt... not found.
Scanning for software devices...
Found 1 to use
Scanning for Direct3D devices...
Found 1 to use
Scanning for 3Dfx devices...
Found 0 to use
Scanning for OpenGL devices...
Found 1 to use
GeForce 7600 GT/PCI/SSE/3DNOW! | NVIDIA Corporation | OpenGL 2.1
Initialized for DirectSound3D using COM
Loading Patch Files...
Patch 1.2
Patch MariusNet
Patch 1.3
Patch 1.4
Patch 1.4 Interface
Patch 1.5
Loading Patch Files Succeeded
Running Direct3D at 1920 x 1080
Starting mesh "Willow Creek"...
Using 1.7.2 gameplay...
Quitting single player game...
Running OpenGL at 1920 x 1080 (VSync ON)
Starting mesh "Willow Creek"...
Using 1.7.2 gameplay...
OpenGL: initialized with ErasePreviousFrame=0, Use32BitTextures=1, UseAppleClientStorage=1, UseDepthTest=1, UseShaders=1, UpdateCMapChunked=1
Quitting single player game...
Closing Myth.

Again thank you for your help!

[weiss]

Me again ...

I was sooooo [&/&/§$&/§$=:-(] with my [&%/$%$"§&/:-(] old PC that I've just bought a new one ...

So I don't have that problem anymore ...

[punkUser]

Ha, nice solution If you ever do try to get the old one working again I'd suggest getting a "driver cleanup" program and doing a full uninstall of all NVIDIA drivers on your system, rebooting, then doing a clean install of the latest driver. Any time you have issues with getting weird "half-working" drivers it's worth doing it the old fashioned way, particularly on Windows XP or earlier

So what did you get for a new machine? OS/Video card?