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HL2 - New Video Card blues.
Cantido
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I just purchased a video card, a Geforce 7600 GS so I can play DEFCON and Touhou without them running like shit, and now they run at the speed of awesome. There was a celebration with much nuclear fallout and danmaku. I'm gonna reinstall Starscape and Myst 4 soon. It feels good to be playing modern PC games for the first time in 3 years.
However, with Half life 2, there is a wierd visual error which is actually rather creepy. All the models in the game are twisted, with polygons stretching out all over the face.
GMan never looked so scary! ( I can't show you because something's wrong with my web account at the moment. )
Is anyone familiar with this problem?
However, with Half life 2, there is a wierd visual error which is actually rather creepy. All the models in the game are twisted, with polygons stretching out all over the face.
GMan never looked so scary! ( I can't show you because something's wrong with my web account at the moment. )
Is anyone familiar with this problem?
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Make sure you have the newest ones from NVIDIA.
Yes there are. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html
Edit : That didn't do the trick. I called tech support and left a message. I expect them to get back to me never.
nVidia's been releasing drivers for all (well, at least most) of their video cards in a single package for years now. Typically the only difference between the downloadable options is the operating system.
You might try uninstalling all video card drivers, then reinstalling the newest ones from nVidia once the old ones are gone. Usually having two types of drivers installed at once is a bad thing. The official nVidia drivers are pretty good about installing over old versions, but if you were using out-of-the-box drivers provided by the manufacturer, I wouldn't have quite so much faith.
Running driver cleaner pro is usually a really, really good idea if you've changed video cards recently. Unfortunately they seem to have discontinued the free version, or else I can't seem to find it.
QFT,
If none of those things work, I would recommend Omega Drivers http://www.omegadrivers.net. They release tweaked versions of the nvidia and ati driver sets, normally decreasing bloatware and doing minor optimizations. I've had some luck in the past on ATi cards with omega drivers actually fixing errors similar to what your experiencing now.
Chillax, your in good hands here at the PA forums. Just try the solutions we've provided and you are extremely likely to have positive results. Calling a hardware manufacturers tech support line is almost never recommended unless you're positive the card is fried, then you're just fishing for an RMA.
Download Driver Cleaner and install it. Uninstall your nVidia drivers from Add/Remove in the control panel. Reboot, and run Driver Cleaner to clean nVidia drivers. Install latest nVidia drivers from their site, then reboot again. Voila?
Awesome - I couldn't find the link for some reason. Listen to this man.
Though with one minor alteration: After you uninstall your drivers from Add/Remove programs and reboot, reboot into safe mode. Run Driver cleaner from there, just as described by Raere. Then reboot back into normal mode and install the new drivers. Should be good fom there.
Half Life 2 still has crazy artifacting though. I did not try to reinstall the drivers in Safe Mode. What difference does that make and what do you hold down while you reboot to get it.
(On a side note, now that Touhou 7, 8 and 9 run at 60 FPS, I have not beaten any of them once since I got this card.) I now know I suck at shumps.
I suppose I could uninstall HL2 and *cough* keep Steam.