Chopping Wood

May 20th, 2005 - 18:11 | 4 comments

One day, and it will be a good day, it will be possible for me to install a computer game and, you know, have it work first time. This day is not yet here. Both Doom3 and Half-Life 2 took me at least 2 days to get working, and now Trackmania’s being a pain, too. I played the demo last week and it ran pretty much fine (one graphical glitch that went away), but the full game had major graphical corruption, and the demo has now developed a similar problem. It’s not like I’m a l33t hacker who spends all his time messing about with drivers, either. I’m going to go buy an xbox.

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4 Responses to “Chopping Wood”

1 Ben May 21st, 2005 at 11:46 am

oh dear! I’m sorry to hear you’re having problems with it…I take it you’ve tried the latest nVidia driver?

It all seemed to Just Work on my computer…

Is the graphics card fan turned down, such that it’s overheating? TM Sunrise uses shaders and other DX9 trickery I think…
2 Andrew May 21st, 2005 at 1:06 pm

Well, after a few restarts it at least showed something that wasn’t the odd polygon (I’m using ‘bench’ from the configuration menu to test.) I bumped up the fan speeds which helped a little, but it died after a few seconds. A little googling showed that there’s a setting in the drivers for ‘multi-display compatibility’. Setting this to ’single display mode’ from ‘multi-display performance’ fixed it. Which is great.

So I loaded up the game, set up my profile, loaded ‘Skid or Die’, and it crashed out to the desktop after one frame. Argh.
3 Ed May 22nd, 2005 at 5:00 pm

Are the problems all down to you using two monitors?
4 Andrew May 22nd, 2005 at 9:11 pm

Don’t think so - the demo worked fine. I’ve had to change that nvidia setting before, it does cause problems on initial installs and I always forget.

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