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Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 22:28
by Graf Zahl
Anyone having display errors with recent GZDoom versions should check the installed driver. I had problems with NVidia's 185.xx version that made the shaders fail to compile which results in all kinds of errors. Please make sure you have 190.62 installed which appears to work fine.
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 19:52
by Nuxius
191.07 WHQL drivers were released today, for anyone who is interested.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/drivers.html
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:09
by Gez
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 15:18
by Enjay
Ouch! Thanks for the "heads up". Just as well I hadn't got around to updating. I meant to check for new drivers last night but didn't get around to it.
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 19:49
by NeuralStunner
By the time I'd heard of thew 196.75 drivers, they'd been taken down already. I am a little surprised they just took it down, without a note on the drivers page as to why.
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 16:56
by Firebrand
LOL, and I thought ATI were the only ones making shitty drives... I guess this one was more like insufficient beta testing or something... but anyway.
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 21:49
by Deathlike2
It's not really the lack of beta testing (although, it's a head scratcher how this was not noticed), but WHQL tests are to make sure the Direct3D portion is working fine. However, it doesn't test actual usage (eg. game scenarios with 100% load). People who were most affected where those that use auto-fan temp cooling with "non-standard coolers" (translation: custom coolers). You have to be very careful to mess with fan speeds when you have temp monitoring sensors on the video card.
In sum, someone really goofed @ NVidia.
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:29
by Enjay
Anyone tried the new 197.13 drivers yet?
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:50
by Graf Zahl
I'm using the 197.15 beta drivers which also implement OpenGL 3.3. No problems so far but also no speed improvements. For now 196.21 should be ok and there's no need to update.
Re: Problems with GZDoom and NVidia driver version 185.xx
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 15:05
by Enjay
I missed your post and decided to give the 197.13 drivers a whirl. So far so good. certainly no problems. GZdoom has been fine and I have played a few other games with them too. I can't say for definite, because I hadn't benchmarked the other games, but my feeling is that there may be a little speed improvement with some of them.