Gothic 3 .. new nVidia drivers

Hell of mess. At least I did an image of my c-drive before
I started. Aspyr tech support thought my problem might
be my nVidia driver dated Feb 06 .. or 8.1.9.0 ( I think ).
Anyway, I uninstalled the driver, and installed the newest
from both Sept and Nov ( the very latest ) . I have never
seen such a mess. Neither of the newer drivers can be
set to 16:10 resolutions, except for 1680 x 1050. Under
that resolution, Gothic 3 reported "out of range" and
would not show on the screen. I did have sound. I tried
creating a custom resolution, but 1280 x 800 ( 60 hz )
gave me a 3 inch tall black bar across the bottom of
the screen. Only the 4:3 resolutions would give me
a full screen with severe distortion on the width. I tried
Gothic 3 anyway, and it came up with mostly all green,
and no sky detail. When I moved the character, it was
jerky, and the frame rate was very low, so the screen
was unpleasant to work with. I called BFG tech support,
and the guy said he would up the case and report it
to nVidia. They have a problem with their new drivers
and wide screen lcd monitors at 16:10 resolutions
other than the native resolution of the monitor. He
thinks it is an HDTV bug in the driver. Also, Coolbits
just gives an error message and fails. He thinks it is
time for Coolbits 3 for these new drivers. So, I restored
the drive image where my Feb 06 driver, set to 1280
x 800 ( 60 ) runs just fine, and spent the rest of this
evening sword fighting with some whopping big
spiders. Also swam across the inlet, and explored
one cave, but did not find much except some angry
Orcs in the woods. Swam back, and the Orcs let
me fight in the arena .. kicked ass ... and maybe
I can free the Paladin ?? Sure ain't getting nowhere
fast.

johns

Thus spake "johns" <johns321.DeleteThis@moscow.com>, 29 Nov 2006 00:36:48 -0800, Anno
Domini:

>Hell of mess. At least I did an image of my c-drive before
>I started. Aspyr tech support thought my problem might
>be my nVidia driver dated Feb 06 .. or 8.1.9.0 ( I think ).
>Anyway, I uninstalled the driver, and installed the newest
>from both Sept and Nov ( the very latest ) . I have never
>seen such a mess. Neither of the newer drivers can be
>set to 16:10 resolutions, except for 1680 x 1050. Under
>that resolution, Gothic 3 reported "out of range" and
>would not show on the screen. I did have sound. I tried
>creating a custom resolution, but 1280 x 800 ( 60 hz )
>gave me a 3 inch tall black bar across the bottom of
>the screen. Only the 4:3 resolutions would give me
>a full screen with severe distortion on the width. I tried
>Gothic 3 anyway, and it came up with mostly all green,
>and no sky detail. When I moved the character, it was
>jerky, and the frame rate was very low, so the screen
>was unpleasant to work with. I called BFG tech support,
>and the guy said he would up the case and report it
>to nVidia. They have a problem with their new drivers
>and wide screen lcd monitors at 16:10 resolutions
>other than the native resolution of the monitor. He
>thinks it is an HDTV bug in the driver. Also, Coolbits
>just gives an error message and fails. He thinks it is
>time for Coolbits 3 for these new drivers. So, I restored
>the drive image where my Feb 06 driver, set to 1280
>x 800 ( 60 ) runs just fine, and spent the rest of this
>evening sword fighting with some whopping big
>spiders. Also swam across the inlet, and explored
>one cave, but did not find much except some angry
>Orcs in the woods. Swam back, and the Orcs let
>me fight in the arena .. kicked ass ... and maybe
>I can free the Paladin ?? Sure ain't getting nowhere
>fast.
>
>johns

Now that's the weirdest gaming experience I've just about ever read lol! For
a moment then I had to re-read to check it was G3 you were talking about!
:-/

Should've gone for a normal 4:3 or 5:4 lcd dude & got an ATI ;-p

--
"Gothic is nothing for noobs." - Gabriele Neukam 31/10

Nostromo