Full screen crashing in Windows Vista

Dusda

AMD Athlon X2 4200+ @ 2.2Ghz
2GB PC4000 DDR RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7900GT

I have Windows Vista Ultimate installed on my desktop. I've also installed the latest nvidia drivers (the ones released on January 5th, version 95.46). However whenever I try to play CS: Source in fullscreen, my monitor freaks out. It looks like a bunch of random static, only green. I suspect this isn't limited to Source engine games, I just don't have anything else on hand at the moment to confirm it.

Any ideas what's going on? It works fine in windowed mode, just not in full screen.

Wylder

Well, your first problem was that you installed vista.

Ok, that sounds like MS bashing, but seriously.... vista is a new operating system. It is very likely that particular drivers etc are likely to still have bugs with particular hardware under the new driver architecture.

Try rolling back to earlier video drivers or something.

Dusda

I had the same problem with build 5840 and the earlier December driverset that Nvidia had. Dammit; aside from this, I haven't had a single stability issue.

redimpulse

It's NVidia, I'm pretty sure.

I had the same issues (XP 64 3700+, 1.5 Gb PC3200 DDR). I originally had a GeForce 6200, and I was experiencing the issues you described. I then upgraded to a 7900GT, same shit. So just for testing, I brought home an ATI Radeon X1600 PRO, and my issues disappeared.

So I'm going to pin this on the beta drivers not working as expected. Pretty sure this is an issue on NVidia's side, but it could be Vista's code not quite up to speed with NVidia... don't know.

Darth Waiter

redimpulse wrote:

So I'm going to pin this on the beta drivers not working as expected. Pretty sure this is an issue on NVidia's side, but it could be Vista's code not quite up to speed with NVidia... don't know.

It's most likely Vista and I wish I could offer some help with it, but every one of my business customers are avoiding it like the plague until the first service pack hits. Sometimes they'll pick up a copy as a test run and tool around with it to create a general familiarity for the sysadmin and his team. You're using it on a home desktop, right? I'd say just google a couple of forums and see what you can pick up from the hard core technophiles; most of them are the exact same sysadmins I referrenced earlier. Best of luck.

redimpulse

Everyone's avoiding Vista like the plague. Hell I'm the most experienced tech at work when it comes to Vista, and I've only played around with it for a month or two. We're not even planning a Vista deployment until at least Q2 2009.

Darth Waiter

redimpulse wrote:

Everyone's avoiding Vista like the plague. Hell I'm the most experienced tech at work when it comes to Vista, and I've only played around with it for a month or two. We're not even planning a Vista deployment until at least Q2 2009.

Crazy, ain't it? It's supposed to be the answer to a maiden's prayer and everyone's terrified it'll turn out to be the frog instead of the prince. At this point, I think that the OP is best chatting with the super-geeks who can code with their eyes closed; those guys just swim in system-level code and find nothing wrong with engineering a patch in relatively little time.

Q2 of 2009, huh? I've got a client in Hawaii who's running a hospital exchange server on a P2. They should be ready to upgrade to a P3 by then.

blincoln

Vista in general is fine. I like it better than XP in a number of ways.

However, the new NVidia drivers are pretty buggy.