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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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05-24-2006 12:50
Myself, along with several people I have talked to that own Geforce cards with the new 91.28 beta drivers installed from Nvidia's site have experienced problems with not being able to run either the avatar vertex program or local lights - the avatar appears black. I had this problem initially - rolling back to the previous drivers fixed the problem. The currently released 84.21 drivers work fine - the 84.43 beta drivers also work. I am now able to enable local lighting, avatar vertex, and have the option for avatar bump map and cloth again (with vertex program off, I only had Normal as an option). Hope this helps someone
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Ron Overdrive
Registered User
Join date: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,002
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05-24-2006 13:01
Actually I think there's a conflict somewhere. If you notice, your avitar becomes normal when you have at least 6 light sources around you. I've bug reported this in preview, I've bug reported this on the main grid. Hopefully somewhere along the line there'll be a fix. Optionally you can just diable avitar vertex program and all will be well. My friend Yiffy is using the 91.28 drivers as well, but she's using it on her 6200 and she has no problems with this. I'm using a 6600GT.
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Enabran Templar
Capitalist Pig
Join date: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,506
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05-24-2006 13:09
Does the conflict have anything to do with not paying people who win jackpots at your slotmachine?
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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Join date: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,601
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05-24-2006 13:34
Anyone know why my ripple water option is greyed out? I have a geforce 6200 or something. Is my card now subpar and not able to handle ripples?
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Ron Overdrive
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Join date: 10 Jul 2005
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05-24-2006 14:30
Anyone know why my ripple water option is greyed out? I have a geforce 6200 or something. Is my card now subpar and not able to handle ripples? Yeah actually, the 6200 is just a step up from a 5500. Also, how old is your 6200? Reason I ask is because the older 6200 cards have the same chipset (NV43) as the 6600GT series and can be flashed into a low grade 6600GT (or at the very least has unlockable pixel pipelines will will alow you to use ripplewater). |
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Yiffy Yaffle
Purple SpiritWolf Mystic
Join date: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,802
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05-24-2006 15:37
I'm using it, looks ok to me. just got a blurry terrain texture but i duno why...
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Twiddler Thereian
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Join date: 1 Jun 2004
Posts: 94
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05-24-2006 15:40
Hey Cristano
I had the exact same issue with the 90 series beta drivers earlier today. It did make for a groovy kind of art feel since hair was still colored. lol  Twiddler http://www.taunt.com second life, imvu, photoshop -> news, tutorials, and frisky fun |
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Soleil Mirabeau
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Join date: 6 Oct 2005
Posts: 995
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05-24-2006 16:35
there is a solution. Stop using the Nvidia drivers.
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Dnate Mars
Lost
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 1,309
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05-24-2006 17:27
Anyone know why my ripple water option is greyed out? I have a geforce 6200 or something. Is my card now subpar and not able to handle ripples? Upgrade to the latest drivers to fix the issue. I was using older drivers and it was greyed out until I upgraded to the latest drivers. _____________________
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Yiffy Yaffle
Purple SpiritWolf Mystic
Join date: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,802
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05-24-2006 18:26
Ahh!!! Shadow Men!
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Squeedoo Shirakawa
Sweet 'n' Silky
Join date: 4 Jan 2006
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05-24-2006 18:58
More like shadow babes. *wiggles eyebrows up and down suggestively*
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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Join date: 10 Aug 2004
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05-24-2006 19:06
Upgrade to the latest drivers to fix the issue. I was using older drivers and it was greyed out until I upgraded to the latest drivers. thanks.. this worked! _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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05-24-2006 19:18
there is a solution. Stop using the Nvidia drivers. Another solution is to play World of Warcraft PS - the released Nvidia driver works fine, just not the beta. _____________________
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Osgeld Barmy
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Join date: 22 Mar 2005
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05-24-2006 19:28
Yeah actually, the 6200 is just a step up from a 5500. Also, how old is your 6200? Reason I ask is because the older 6200 cards have the same chipset (NV43) as the 6600GT series and can be flashed into a low grade 6600GT (or at the very least has unlockable pixel pipelines will will alow you to use ripplewater). nice to know |
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Ketra Saarinen
Whitelock 'Yena-gal
Join date: 1 Feb 2006
Posts: 676
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05-24-2006 19:37
Careful with the whole flashing a 6200 into a 6600 thing.. The 6200 uses what's called TurboCache. Essentially, it uses the increased return bandwidth of PCI-Express to use your system memory for its frame buffer. So when you make that 'free' 6600, you may just end up with only 32 or 64M on-board video ram. I wouldn't reccomend it. Really, stash a few bucks every week and just pick up a 6600. They're cheap.
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Ron Overdrive
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Join date: 10 Jul 2005
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05-25-2006 04:07
Careful with the whole flashing a 6200 into a 6600 thing.. The 6200 uses what's called TurboCache. Essentially, it uses the increased return bandwidth of PCI-Express to use your system memory for its frame buffer. So when you make that 'free' 6600, you may just end up with only 32 or 64M on-board video ram. I wouldn't reccomend it. Really, stash a few bucks every week and just pick up a 6600. They're cheap. Thats what I meant by the Older versions, the newer ones have the Turbo Cache crap and are using a lower grade 64bit chipset instead of the 128bit chipset it used to use. nVidia saw people were buying 6200's and reflashing them into low grade 6600GTs so they changed the chipset used in the 6200 and relabled the old 128bit 6200's to 6600LE in order to charge more for the popular flashable chipset. |
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Lecina Enigma
Linux Client User-x86_64
Join date: 16 Nov 2005
Posts: 32
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05-29-2006 05:36
First the 91.26 is normally a 68xx/78xx/79xx Driver, he can be used with older cards too...but is not written for them. (updated sli , opengl updated to 2.03, and some improvements everywhere ...sorry the document is around 80 sides big with changes etc (german only). so i didnt looked deeper what all exactly changed..but it is much.
The Driver is traded on well known Boards like guru3d, nvnew and the german site 3dcenter as the best since ca one year, still beta but most stable. I have absolutly no problems with SL , more it`s running now more smoother as before on my computer. __________ Specs : Dell Dimension XPS Gen 3 3,2 GHZ P4 (HT) NV GF 6800 Ultra 256MB 2 Gig Ram 1 x 250 GB WD HDD |
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trillium Rothschild
Trillium Rothschild
Join date: 24 Apr 2006
Posts: 20
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05-29-2006 09:01
My 7800 gt seens to work fine. I dont think i have beta driver though. I am still learning all this . I stopped playing MMogs ,and came to SL so to learn all this fun stuff. You guys are some brainy peeps. I just love it.
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Gonta Maltz
Infoaddict
Join date: 29 Sep 2005
Posts: 27
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05-29-2006 14:51
Isn't it a bit odd to warn people about problems with beta drivers?
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