Nvidia 9800 + 178.24 Driver

[Toof]

So I got my new video card today(9800GT), installed without a hitch, yadda yadda. I can open up AH2 just fine, but for some reason my text box seems unusally large and especially jagged (as far as the text from 200/squad/etc goes). Also got a new 22" Widescreen monitor(It's my first widescreen, so that could be an issue in itself). I currently have my desktop set to 1680x1050, configured AH2 in the same way, but the problem still persists. I did enable widescreen mode from the Graphic Options menu in AH2. Is there something I'm overlooking, or is this the driver issues I've caught wind of rearing it's(their?) ugly head? My old 7900GS had no problems with the game, so I expect this 9800GT to blow it out of the water. Any help/info is much appreciated.

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[Denholm]

Are you using the video card drivers that came with your video card? Or did you download these off the NVidia website? Sometimes the latest drivers from NVidia can cause trouble, typically the drivers that come with the video card are stable.

[drdeathx]

Change your game resolution. Try 1280 X 1024.

[Tigger29]

It's not your video card.. it's the monitor.

I too just got a 22" widescreen, and my text box is also jagged and abnormally large.

You have to remember that AH just recently started supporting widescreen monitors.  The text box as a result gets stretched horizontally, resulting in the largeness and blockiness of it all.

Just be patient, I'm sure it'll get fixed in two weeks...

[Chalenge]

Can one of you two submit a screenshot? It sounds like you might have anti-aliasing turned off perhaps?

[drdeathx]

What would anti-alias have to do with this?

[Chalenge]

What would anti-alias have to do with this?

I bet thats a self-portrait. Nice work. 

[FLOTSOM]

there is a thread that went into good detail about setting up your nvidia profile to the optimum settings. alot of knowledgeable people posted their thoughts and settings in it.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,249743.0.html but read it through, alot of issues are discussed the further in you go, as well as talking about the 178.24 update settings.

i use the 178.24 update and set my profile for ah to the same as it was for my earlier driver version and it works great, have had no issues.

good luck

FLOTSOM

[BaldEagl]

I've got a 22" widescreen and mine's like that too.  Very large text box and very low res text.  Annoying but you get used to it.

I've got AA set at 8x and AS set at 2x so that's not it.

BTW drdeath... you shouldn't run LCD monitors at anything other than their native resolutions.

[Chalenge]

BE how do you have anisotropic set? I think this is the transparency anti-aliasing (if not anti-aliasing). I didnt realize they meant text but its got to be the aliasing of the text font that does that.

[BaldEagl]

BE how do you have anisotropic set? I think this is the transparency anti-aliasing (if not anti-aliasing). I didnt realize they meant text but its got to be the aliasing of the text font that does that.

As I said above... antialiasing 8x, anistopic filtering 2x.

No matter what you do the text looks like that silly old non aliased DOS font.

[Chalenge]

Well there you go then thank god for vox. I dont seem to have that problem on my system but I am half blind anyway.

Wait wait BE... transparency setting on? Multi/Super Sampling and no difference?

[BaldEagl]

Well there you go then thank god for vox. I dont seem to have that problem on my system but I am half blind anyway.

Wait wait BE... transparency setting on? Multi/Super Sampling and no difference?

Don't remember off the top of my head.  I'm at work.

[Chalenge]

Well thank god one of us is making some money. 

[moot]

I have a 9800GT (GT+ XFX if that makes any difference) too, also on a 22" widescreen, latest drivers as of mid november.
I dont know if the text buffer uses some old school code or what, but almost everytime I change video card, I get differently shaped text in the radio buffer. Most recently I get text like the OP describes, which can look pretty bold and jagged when compared to other cards that'll smooth it out and maybe render it a bit smaller.