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[Sabouma]

A couple of days ago I installed the newest driver for my Nvidia graphics card (driver number 266.58), and now my game doesn't run as smooth as it did before.

What the...?

I thought that if you updated drivers things would run better, but I guess that's not always the case.

[dinria]

What graphic card o you have? In general you could see if any settings have changed in the configuration for the graphic card (some can enable AA from the graphic card and that might have been enabled by mistake when you updated the driver)

[Sabouma]

Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT

[Sabouma]

Well... I tried the beta 267 driver. It worked for a little while, but now the freezing is even worse than before.... dammit... wish I had stayed with the 265 driver

Modifié par Sabouma, 01 avril 2011 - 03:56 .

[Gorath Alpha]

nVIDIA tends to ignore Bioware products when they make changes to graphics drivers, and most of their newer drivers break the game for owners of elderly graphics cards such as the one you have. Complain to them, then choose an older driver instead, such as one from the 197.xx series.

[Sabouma]

Well.... the 267 driver specificly said that it fixed some stuff for DA II.... so now I wonder what exactly they did

[DPB]

The newest driver is 270.51 beta. 266.58 was slow, and 267 was only a bit better. 270 is a huge improvement and the best driver for DA2 by far.

Modifié par dbankier, 01 avril 2011 - 05:43 .

[JMC002]

The 270 beta driver worked wonders for DA2 on my GTX 580

[dimman87]

I also have a GTX 580 and the new driver fixed all my crashing issues (I crashed every 10 minutes before)

[Sabouma]

very funny, but that beta driver is not compatible with Windows 7 32 bits....

[JMC002]

I guess you'll have to wait for a compatible version!

[mousestalker]

The 271.04 beta driver solved all of my DA2 issues. I'm seeing 65-70 fps on a 460 GTX at very high settings with x4 AA with no tearing. As far as I'm concerned it's flawless except for the templar armour being bright purple.

[Gorath Alpha]

Sabouma wrote...

Well.... the 267 driver specificly said that it fixed some stuff for DA II.... so now I wonder what exactly they did

The only cards they are paying any attention to lately are the GTX400 Fermis, of which the 5n0s are an extension/refresh.  They had nothing at all that was working properly for DA2 for those cards, especially in Dx10 / DX11, while older cards were less of a problem, as long as properly matched drivers  for them (197.45) were being used. 

nVIDIA lost their battle with Intel over providing Chipsets for the latest of Intel's processors to run on, although there seems to be some promise for them at the low end, with Smartphone technology, where Intel has nothing.  Meanwhile, the profit for graphics companies has always been made on the less powerful of their cards, where nVIDIA just hasn't been adequately price competitve for almost three years. 

They are betting their company's future on two areas outside of their core success zone, where AMD is beating them now.  They are looking at the ARM processor, a non-X86 processor, which they will have their own version of, and at selling their highest high end GPUs for use as massively parallel CPUs for scientific and statistic computations.  Their long-suffering faithful user base is just suffering even more than usual, lately, especially in DA2.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 01 avril 2011 - 07:00 .

[BTCentral]

Sabouma wrote...

very funny, but that beta driver is not compatible with Windows 7 32 bits....

Yes it is. I guess for some reason you couldn't find the link here it is for you:

US English: http://www.nvidia.co...eta-driver.html
International: http://www.nvidia.co...-driver-uk.html

Hope this helps!

Modifié par BTCentral, 01 avril 2011 - 06:19 .