BVE: Geforce 8800 GTX

[merseyrail12richard]

Hi,

I cannot use BVE on my new pc. I have attached a sample picture from the Bakerloo line to show you my problem. The rails are missing and in other routes the rails flicker and are different colours. I have installed the latest graphics for the 8800 gtx from Nvidia, but it doesn't help. Also, when I exit BVE my computer restarts itself.

So, my quesiton is that I assume i need to install 'older' nvidia drivers for BVE to work - which ones are the best and where do I get them from?

BTW, I run the latest version of Flight Sim (FSX) with no problems at all on my machine.

Please help and thanks,
Richard.

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My system specs are:

AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Dual Core Processor
2.81 GHz
2.00 GB of RAM
Geforce 8800 GTX
798 GB of free hard drive space

[merseyrail12richard]

RE: Geforce 8800 GTX

Here are 2 more screenshots too, one from Bakerloo line and the other from the Northern Line.

[Jorge Cerezo]

RE: Geforce 8800 GTX

Hi,

Install 84.21 drivers, it should fix the problem.

Jorge

[merseyrail12richard]

RE: Geforce 8800 GTX

According to Nvidia the 84.21 drivers are not compatible with my card?

Is it still possible to install them?

[ferrovipathe]

RE: Geforce 8800 GTX

>According to Nvidia the 84.21 drivers are not compatible with
>my card?
>
>Is it still possible to install them?

Geforce 8 are Direct10 cards, and they aren't buid in the same way as Geforce 5,6,7.

So drivers for 8800 are specifics, and cannot be exchange with olders.

Sorry, but, if 8800 GTX are the most powerfull video cards by now, drivers seems to be beta, and are optimised for Direct X and perhaps Open GL.

I think that a lot of problems with BVE4 come from Framework 1.1.


Is someone using framework 2.0 with BVE 4?

[tof63]

RE: Geforce 8800 GTX

>
>Is someone using framework 2.0 with BVE 4?
>

Yes I do, without any problem:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
1GB ram
Windows XP SP2
DirectX 9.0C
GeForce 7300LE - PCI Express - 256MB
ForceWare version 83.91 (default settings)

I'm afraid to have bought on last October one of the latest brand computers being able to run both BVE 2 and 4 without problems (Compaq Presario SR1919IT).

Luigi Cartello

http://bve.altervista.org/

http://web.tiscali.it/lcartello/

[ferrovipathe]

RE: Geforce 8800 GTX

>I'm afraid to have bought on last October one of the latest
>brand computers being able to run both BVE 2 and 4 without
>problems (Compaq Presario SR1919IT).

I think so too.
XP SP2, Ati or NVidia < 8NNNN (with 83.91 driver), that's the only choice for BVE. AMD or Intel, no matter. (And Core duo are very nice).

So, 2 PC ? One for BVE, and one with Vista, Core duo, 8800 GTX, 2 or 4 Go for uptodate games ? Or one with 2 dos (XP,Vista), and 2 graphics cards, one for BVE, and one for others games?

[Ado 16]

RE: Geforce 8800 GTX

Isn't that typical! This isn't compatible with that - that won't work with the other! Many eons ago back in the days of the industrial revolution they did something to make life easier - it was called standardised measurements! A pity they can't do it with PC's!

My laptop is just three years old - ages ago we bought Colin McCrae Rally 2 (for the last Win98 laptop we had) which worked happily on the new one too - so we thought we'd be brave and buy McCrae 3! (When we saw it for a fiver somewhere) and guess what - the new laptop didn't have some graphics thing that didn't make shadows, so the bloomin thing wouldn't work!!! I ask you! a 2004 laptop that wouldn't play a program released in - what? 1998? Mad eh!

[ferrovipathe]

RE: Geforce 8800 GTX

>My system specs are:
>
>AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Dual Core Processor
>2.81 GHz
>2.00 GB of RAM
>Geforce 8800 GTX
>798 GB of free hard drive space
>
I find a kind of soluce on web, with someone who want to use a 8800GTX AND a 5200, with 3 screens: He use the new NVIDIA universal driver (161.01) for 8800 GTX and older cards. Try it. (But i don't know if that driver work with BVE.)
See links (sorry, one in french):

http://www.pc-tests.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=63955

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=221563

I am going soon on the same way....:-)

All the best.