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yonatan Whiteberry
Registered User
Join date: 2 Jun 2008
Posts: 6
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12-29-2009 10:23
You would not believe my problem...i have the latest hardware that can run SL on ultra without a blink but lately i see stars in the clouds and some textures and also i can't look underwater the graphics snaps i took a pic in world and i hope someone got a solution i do have a ATI graphics accelerator and i heard there are problems with them but its anew one and it ran ok at 1st so i would like to know what to do to fix the problem.
i can send the pic to you in world please help!!!
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Asriazh Frye
Smart Cookie
Join date: 30 Sep 2006
Posts: 173
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12-29-2009 11:56
Don't worry, it's a known problem. It seems to have to do with the 9.12 ATI driver. All you have to do is to revert back to version 9.11
-Asri
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yonatan Whiteberry
Registered User
Join date: 2 Jun 2008
Posts: 6
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Worked
12-29-2009 12:06
the numbers you wrote about they were not the same with myn but i did aroll back and it worked it seems this vertion is defected but is that mean i can't update my driver any more in fear of problams ?
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
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12-29-2009 12:30
No. It means you should make note of the driver version that did not work and if you need to update your driver again, avoid that one. Most drivers developed by the manufacturers work without any problems......bad drivers are relatively rare.
But, I do want to say don't update any driver until it's necessary to do so. If you have problems and all your troubleshooting indicates it is a driver then update. Some people update drivers just because the driver is newer.........and that can lead to problems. It's best to update only when you need to.
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Eli Schlegal
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Join date: 20 Nov 2007
Posts: 2,387
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12-29-2009 12:45
From: Peggy Paperdoll
But, I do want to say don't update any driver until it's necessary to do so. If you have problems and all your troubleshooting indicates it is a driver then update. Some people update drivers just because the driver is newer.........and that can lead to problems. It's best to update only when you need to.
If you went by this theory... how would you ever know if a new driver might make things run smoother/better/faster? It would make more sense to me to update when the manufacturer recommends it and then roll-back if there is a problem. |
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
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12-29-2009 13:13
You don't know. But if you are seeing everything you should see, and having no issues you often create problems that you did not have.......your case is a prime example. Driver versions come out for many reasons. Most are minor fixes for issues with some computer setups (different hardware mated with any number of other hardware devices that only a few have problems with). Some are to fix major issues which almost everyone experiences.......those would be drivers you might need or want to upgrade to.
Don't fix something that ain't broke. Upgrading for the sake of upgrading will seldom get you any performance increase. But it will often get you headaches unnecessarily. The driver I'm using on this machine is several revisions back from the latest (my nVidia driver version is 185.85, the most recent is somewhere in the 195.xx range) and it won't be ugraded until I need to update it.........I used driver version 169.25 for well over a year before I got this driver. And this driver did not give me any performance increase.........it merely allowed me to get my SL settings back to where I wanted them after a viewer update by LL (I would never have updated the driver if that viewer did not require it).
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