nVidia Drivers

[Chryssalid_Victim]

I've had UFO:Aftershock now for a while and, despite being under the system requirements, my system has always run it perfectly, no real slowdown and the only bummer being the lack of extra view modes (Psionic, Infra etc.). Hell it didn't even crash whent eh Wargots arrived

 

Yesterday i update my nVidia Drivers (Got a Ti4600) to the latest version (81.93 or somthing) from the 2003 Windows Versions (45.23 if I'm right), which seem to me to be a tad out of date, and lo and behold I now get fatal errors when trying to start the game

 

This has got me more than annoyed as I love this game and I'm just reaching a critical stage but now somehow upgrading my software has caused it to go backwards in performance (i.e from performing to not at all)

 

Anyone got any suggestions apart from upgrading my whole PC? Really don't want to have to downgrade to 2 year old drivers.

[Gimli]

Unfortunately newer drivers don't always mean that the game will run better, that's how things are. There are often problems with new versions, and there isn't much you can do about it. The best example I have right now is Serious Sam 2, where the game wouldn't work properly on nVidia 81.xx drivers but worked on 71.xx.

 

The only thing you can do is roll back to the older drivers. In case you don't know how to do that, you need to go to Start --> Settings --> Control Panel. In the new window go to System, open the Hardware tab, click on Device Manager. In the window that opens find Display Adapters, click the small + sign next to it, and double click on your graphics card. In the window that opens click on the Driver tab and choose Roll Back Driver. It will return you to do older driver version.

 

From here there is only one more thing you can do. If there are drivers in between the old and new ones, you can try them out one by one remember to roll back each time, to ensure you go back to the 45.23 version.

 

Also, in case you didn't know, on nVidia drivers you can read the driver version in the Driver tab, mentioned earlier. What is commonly reffered to as for example 81.93 driver version is actually the last four digits in the Driver Version line in the Driver tab (it will say .8193 in that case).

 

Finally, you can always try to ask nVidia to fix that, it's not unlikely that they will do that, by either mailing Altar or nVidia directly. It is useful to them if they do something like that, because it shows more care for their custommers. Of course, there's no guarantee it'll work, but it's worth a try, IMO.

Just be sure to include your system specifications, driver version, version of the game, and a detailed description of the problem (under which circumstances it occurs and such).