Download the latest graphics driver for your graphics card!!!

NVIDIA cards need the latest update from 11th March to work.

Published on March 25, 2005 By Solitair In Bug Reports

I've discovered that NVIDIA cards need to download the latest driver (march 11th 2005) to work with Directx 9.0c. I have updated last month so didn't realise a new update was out!

Without the latest driver the graphics do strange things and crash to desktop. I suggest that anyone with crashes or graphics problems checks for new graphics drivers,

Paul.

Comments (Page 1)

Lord_StarPilot

on Mar 25, 2005

Thanks Solitair! I'll try this tonight and hope it fixes my CTD on new game creation.

bonscott

on Mar 25, 2005

FYI that the latest ATI driver is dated March 9th, 2005 (couple weeks ago).

Evil Roy

on Mar 25, 2005

i'm having no problem with the intel extreme 2 chipset and the latest drivers - which might be a relief to many a laptop user

KEmperor

on Mar 25, 2005

Good advice, I didn't realize there was such a new driver out.

Lucky_Jack

on Apr 02, 2005

I have the latest Intel Extreme drivers on now, but I thought it worth mentioning that you have to be very careful to follow ALL of the instructions. I missed the final one the first time and did not get it installed.

I have seen some other posts that look like other people may have had similar difficulties when updating their drivers.

Frogboy

on Apr 02, 2005

I have it running on my ThinkPad X40 laptop which has Intel integrated video. No problems so far.

But i will say that on older intel video chipsets the game won't work nor will it ever work on those.

Xarangil

on Apr 08, 2005

Great advice! I was having all sorts of problems with basic things in the beta (like moving a ship). When I saw this post about new drivers, I didn't realize new ones had been released. I installed the new drivers and it corrected all my problems. Even ones I didn't think could be graphics card related. Thanks again Paul!

Rex

Embird

on Apr 09, 2005

I had a CTD when colonizing.
Installed the latest drivers and cured it.

Now with the updated Beta the problem is back again.

jelvis

on Apr 16, 2005

I had problems before but got excellent help from Cari, pointing me to a site where one could get updated modified drivers for ATI cards. The drivers from http://www.omegadrivers.net/ worked for my laptop och now I can run and play the beta.

The only drawback is that the drivers are not supported by my laptop manufacturer and that I do not seem to be able to use the TV-out. But both of those are of no major concern to me. (YMMV)

Posting my stats in case anyone wants to try the same.

Laptop model: ASUS L3800C
Graphic card: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 (32 MB dedicated video memory)
CPU: P4 M 2Ghz
Memory: 512 MB
DirectX: 9.0c

All latest patches from Microsoft.

CortesMaltose

on Apr 18, 2005

The drivers work on my Compaq Presario 2700 (3 year old) with ATI Radeon Mobile M6 (one of the oldest).

jelvis

on Apr 18, 2005

I have noticed some instability, though. Occasional blue screens upon boot. I installed a lot of software at the time so the drivers might not be at fault, but I doubt it.

I would advice you to backup before installing.

LDiCesare

on Apr 26, 2005

I updated the driver for my own ATI modbile Radeon 7500 from that link. The results are: The driver can be installed, contrary to all the official ones even when doing all kinds of uninstall/reboot stuff. The game now runs. Another game (Dominions II) has some slowness and problems in displaying 3D - but then it uses OpenGL and not DirectX-. And the computer sometimes stops dead. I think, but may be wrong, it's due to overheating (which may come from overclocking). Overall, it's quite stable. The minor glitches playing Dom II are compensated by the possibility to test GC II.

jebise

on May 04, 2005

good

Technician

on Jun 13, 2005

Well I am not willing to download any driver not approved by Dell.

Dell has not updated the Drivers for my laptop in ages.

Yarlen

on Jun 14, 2005

I have a Dell laptop and ran into lockup problems if I didn't use their drivers. Unfortunately, as you noted, Dell does not update their laptop drivers once they're deemed to be stable enough. Luckily OmegaDrivers are updated regularly and have worked perfectly with my Dell laptop. If you want to update your drivers, you may want to give them a try.

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