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Offline Latrobe

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Pretty Serious Problem, Please Help!!
« on: November 22, 2008, 11:09:35 AM »
Was flying in the DA, trying to get better. Was still in my first sortie (maybe only 5 minutes in), and my screen did a little "hiccup". It flashed real fast, froze, and then unfroze but with a really big problem...





Those tree's are other players still flying, and they were moving (I was still flying normal too).



I bailed out and looked up and say this! (HT hiding a new map!  :D )



I had this happen once before, and another a LONG time ago. First time we just reset the computer and that fixed it, but apparently not perminitly. The other time was last month when I was on a cruiser's 8" guns shooting up a town. It did the same thing - hiccup, freeze, unfreeze with terrain everywhere - and I thought about reporting it here for some help, but it didn't happen again 'till today.

How would I fix this!?? Is it something with the video card? I haven't had this problem on any of my other games though.

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System specs.

Windows XP
GeForce 8600 GTS Vid Card
512MB DDR3
675MHz core

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Re: Pretty Serious Problem, Please Help!!
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2008, 11:15:27 AM »
It looks like you have a driver conflict to me. Its pretty easy to check if thats it. Uninstall the device (reboot) clean the drivers off (reboot) and then reinstall drivers (reboot). Even with XP I think you should get your drivers from the manufacturer and not NVidia.
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Re: Pretty Serious Problem, Please Help!!
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2008, 11:50:53 AM »
Shoot the trees!   That is an "in game revamp" if I've ever seen one. 

Angry, you get the Oak tree though, you're a haXX0r with the Hickory.    Guppy's Maple trees ignite rather quickly, it's rumored that he waters them with Alcohol.   

But Stang?    :uhoh    That Cherry tree is evil.   
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Re: Pretty Serious Problem, Please Help!!
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2008, 08:17:39 PM »
It looks like you have a driver conflict to me. Its pretty easy to check if thats it. Uninstall the device (reboot) clean the drivers off (reboot) and then reinstall drivers (reboot). Even with XP I think you should get your drivers from the manufacturer and not NVidia.

OK, I'll show my stupidity.  I thought Nvidia was the manufacturer.  If this isn't so, where do you get the drivers?  I have a GeForce 7900 GT/GTO.


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Re: Pretty Serious Problem, Please Help!!
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2008, 09:21:13 PM »
OK, I'll show my stupidity.  I thought Nvidia was the manufacturer.  If this isn't so, where do you get the drivers?  I have a GeForce 7900 GT/GTO.


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Re: Pretty Serious Problem, Please Help!!
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2008, 03:12:43 AM »
It looks like you have a driver conflict to me. Its pretty easy to check if thats it. Uninstall the device (reboot) clean the drivers off (reboot) and then reinstall drivers (reboot). Even with XP I think you should get your drivers from the manufacturer and not NVidia.

That would be my first bet. But couldn't it also be the game's cache? As in a DL error, cause the screen "hicup" freeze, unfreeze sounds like a driver conflict, but the change in the "scenery" ( ;)) doesn't strike me as something the drivers would really fowl up like that...

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Re: Pretty Serious Problem, Please Help!!
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2008, 09:28:43 AM »
OK, I'll show my stupidity.  I thought Nvidia was the manufacturer.  If this isn't so, where do you get the drivers?  I have a GeForce 7900 GT/GTO.


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Re: Pretty Serious Problem, Please Help!!
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2008, 03:15:34 PM »

I had that happen as well but it was because of an Nvidia setting, I was playing an older Open GL game I think and forgot to change the setting back.


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