Strange graphic artefacts with new Forceware Driver 182.85

[Gunhawk007]

!!!CORRECTTION : DRIVER IS 185.85 - not 182.85 as referred by the topic header!!!

Hi,

just curious to find out whether it's just me or if anyone is also experiencing anomalies with the latest NVIDIA Graphics driver Forceware 185.85.

The error is reproducable by 100% - rolling back to previous driver, probs are gone. The effect is visible in vanilla Arma V1.16beta causing blurr effect on textures and make blended text passages flickering, but running together with the ACE community mod 1.07 and lately 1.08 it is fatal (hung on intro screen)

I can provide screenshots on request demonstrate.

I have opened the ticket with ACE mod team as well but as said the bug also affects vanilla Arma as well. I also contacted NVIDIA, but also the suggested roll back to the latest beta driver 185.81 (in between the successfull 185.50 and the failing 185.85) did not help.

My specs are as follows:

OS: VISTA 64 with 8GB
CPU: Intel Q9650 @ 4* 3GHz
GR: NVIDIA 8800GTX

Regards Gunhwawk

[No Use For A Name]

I have a GTX 260 using those drivers and the game runs better then ever. I am using the XG drivers; but I don't know if that would make a difference. When you installed the new ones did you do a clean install? i.e. uninstall old drivers, reboot to safe mode, run driver cleaner, restart and install 182.85's

[Gunhawk007]

I have a GTX 260 using those drivers and the game runs better then ever. I am using the XG drivers; but I don't know if that would make a difference. When you installed the new ones did you do a clean install? i.e. uninstall old drivers, reboot to safe mode, run driver cleaner, restart and install 182.85's

Hi,

I can definitively rule out installation probs. This issue is pretty muchreproducable - just installing the new driver and the probs are there, removingand get back to the old one and its all fine.

Posted this to Nvidia and got the recommendation to stay with the old driver for now.
Regards Gunhawk

[SWAT_BigBear]

Have you tried 185.85whql?
They worked fine with my old 8800gtx, and so far, working great on a gtx260. (still waiting on 2nd gtx260 to arrive)

[Gunhawk007]

Hi BigBear,

I have misspelled the driver in the topic line - I am experiencing my problems with the Forcware Driver 185.85, which currently is the latest available WHQL driver. Since you are running fine with it there must be something wrong!

The probs get solved instantly when rolling back to the previous WHQL driver, which is 182.50

Are you running Vista 64 as your OS and does it have >4GB memory?

My specs are
Vista 64 with 8GB RAM
NVIDIA 8800GTX
Intel Q9650 Quadcore CPU @ 4*3GHz

Regards Gunhawk

[No Use For A Name]

if you don't do a clean install, the previous can leave some files and registry entries that will conflict with the new driver. so every time you roll back it will work because those entries are already loaded, and vice-verse

[Gunhawk007]

if you don't do a clean install, the previous can leave some files and registry entries that will conflict with the new driver. so every time you roll back it will work because those entries are already loaded, and vice-verse

Ok I will follow through this and post if this will fix it

Thanks
Gunhawk

[Gunhawk007]

Hi all,

just to confirm, I did a deinstall of the old driver using normal windows deinstallation feature, rebooted in savemode and deleted the driver stuff using Driver Sweeper (suggested by NVIDIA), rebooted into normal and reinstalled the latest available NVIDIA Driver, which is 185.85 WHQL.

However, I actually got exactly what I had before, so the Driver at least on my config Vista64 8GB is not working with Arma 1.16beta and ACE 1.08 Mod

Regards Gunhawk

[SWAT_BigBear]

Yes, I'm Vista 64 SP2 RC, 4 gig ram.......but AMD cpu's, 2x2@3ghz.
My 8800's have been replaced with 260's by Asus. (What brand is yours?)
I didn't get much gameplay with 185.85 on the 8800, but I did not have any abnormalities like you speak of.

Edit= We need a Mod to edit the thread title plz.

[Gunhawk007]

Hi SWAT_BigBear,

I am using a XFX 8800GTX with latest NVIDIA driver 185.85, but I have 8GB RAM and Vista 64 SP1.

I have read that Arma had problems with Nvidia Cards recently when crossing the 4GB RAM boundary - but may be wrong nor I am confident that this is the reason, but it must an be a Arma/driver issue as when rolling back to the old driver, the visuals are fine!

Unfortunately this board does not allow for attachments, but I have two screenshots demonstrating the visual effects I am seeing when running ACE 1.08 with Domination Mission

Regards Gunhawk