Invisible objects

dHay · #1 February 28th, 2004, 04:52 AM

Hmm, that is not what Aaron had been saying. So, you are correct. It is more than a specific card issue.

David E. Gervais · #2 February 28th, 2004, 11:38 AM

When I upgraded my nVidia drivers to v53.03 I had all kinds of problems With StarFury. (Invisible objects, exit to desktop, black screen on load etc.) Since these problems started immediately after installing the 53.03 drivers it was not hard for me to figure out. I reinstalled the v52.16 nVidia drivers and everything ir running fine again.

I just thought you might like to know this.

Cheers!

P.S. StarFury is not the only thing that the v53.03 drivers broke, I couldn't play any DVD's because it always thought my TV-Out was active and therefore couldn't get past the DVD protection scheme.

P.P.S.. As for it not being a 'specific' video card issue, it might just be that the most recent drivers for both vidio cards has implimented some kind of DX9.0b tweak that overrides something SF is trying to do. After all, the main reason video card drivers are updated is to have them adapt and take advantage of new features in DirectX. SF was written for DirectX 8.0 I believe. so something in the drivers and DirectX might have been broken in the process of upgrading drivers to take advantage of DX9 features.

Nuf said, Tally-ho!

[ February 28, 2004, 09:45: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

dHay · #3 February 28th, 2004, 05:10 PM

I haven't seen an invisible (sic) object in a while. Now, I was playing with the performance settings of my NVidia GeForce FX Go5650 card, and maybe I changed something that fixed the problem. What exactly I did, difficult to say. But I was playing with the performance stuff to get another app looking nicer.

So, possibly adjusting the performance settings of the card may fix the problem.