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Title: Video Driver?
Post by: recon7 on April 22, 2004, 08:22:09 PM

When trying to log into the latest version of AHII I get the following PopUp:

Your video drivers do not support Zbuffer biasing.  Please update your video drivers or you may see some flickering.

There is an "Ok" button, but pressing it produces no result, i.e. the pop up doesn't go away.  I can't move the pop up out of the way to press "online."   It does allow me to select "Quit" and exit.

I am running the video driver that Roy recommended for AHI when I got my video card, an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440.

Any suggestions?

Title: Video Driver?
Post by: fuzeman on April 23, 2004, 07:54:20 AM

I had that error with a GeF4 Ti4200 and it went away using WHQL 56.64 drivers. Not sure if those are 'the best' though as I reacall some people saying their frame rate has become somewhat unstable at times. At least more unstable than it used to be. I can't really say I've noticed that because I'm near the bottom of the requirements and it's more likely to be my system than any driver I load.
I'm running Win98se and Dx9.0b with a AMD XP1500+, 256Mb ram, GeForce4 Ti4200 64Mb using the WHQL 56.64 driver.

On accessing the error, try minimizing the clipboard with ESCape and then try to deal with the error pop-up.

Title: Video Driver?
Post by: recon7 on April 23, 2004, 08:36:21 AM

Fuze,

You don't have e-mails enabled through the bulletin board, so I couldn't send you one.

You and I have almost exactly the same system.  I am also running Windows 98 se, AMD Athlon processor, and 256 MB ram.
Video Driver File version from Properties indicates 4.13.01.382

Skuzzy,

Any recommendations?  I remember you wanted me to use an older driver when I installed this video card.  

If I have to choose between AH and AHII, I will just keep the driver that best supports AH.

Thanks,

Recon7

Title: Video Driver?
Post by: hitech on April 23, 2004, 09:32:38 AM

Grab nvidias latest, be sure to unistall your old ones before installing new ones.

HiTech

Title: Video Driver?
Post by: Virage on April 23, 2004, 12:45:34 PM

My laptop's Geforce '2go' with 56.72 drivers results in the same message.

I doubt it meets the system specs.. but it was working before.

edit/update-----------------------------

For anyone with this problem on a laptop.. update drivers for the flat display as well as the video card drivers.  Fixed it for me.

Title: Video Driver?
Post by: Zanth on April 23, 2004, 12:48:09 PM

FWIW I am running the game with default settings on a gforce2 mx400 64 meg card. (latest DX version)

Title: Video Driver?
Post by: fuzeman on April 23, 2004, 03:20:13 PM

Quote

Originally posted by recon7
Fuze,
You don't have e-mails enabled through the bulletin board, so I couldn't send you one.
Recon7

Thanks for the info Recon7 on my e-mail. I guess I have to switch the medium sized marOOn hat for the large one for the rest of the day.
I adjusted my profile and you should be able to e-mail me through it.

Title: Video Driver?
Post by: recon7 on April 23, 2004, 05:27:57 PM

I did as Dale suggested and downloaded NVIDIA's latest driver, uninstalled my current one, then installed the newest.  Works like a charm now.

Frame rate while in the tower and taking off was horrible @29.  Lots of flickering in the ground effects while taking off.

Once in the air, the frame rate jumped up to @59.  I'm guessing too much detail on the ground for my poor pc to handle:(

Thanks a bunch,

Recon7

P.S. Glad you got your profile fixed Fuze:D