Anyone get STALKER to run with 174.74/Vista32?

[wazooda]

Just got a new pair of 9800GTX cards and installed a brand new version of Vista32 fully patched.

Running Nvidia 174.74 drivers as well as latest Creative drivers for my X-Fi.

All other games installed run flawlessly (Bioshock, Gears of War, HL2, Portal, etc.), but when I start STALKER (patched to v. 1.0005), when the main menu pops up, the graphics are completely corrupted and I cannot even exit the game.

Anyone else seen this?

Motherboard is an eVGA 680i based board with latest drivers as well....

I REALLY want to replay STALKER now that I have serious hardware...

[WeReWoLf]

Playing on the 1.0003 Patch, it works fine 174.74 Vista 32.

[wazooda]

Playing on the 1.0003 Patch, it works fine 174.74 Vista 32.

I wonder if it is a 9800GTX problem then. I've tried it on both Vista32 and Vista64 fresh installs and have hte exact same problem.

I'll try it on XP next to see if I get the same issues....

Thanks for replying....

[fugu_fish]

Make sure you don't force AA through the NV Control Panel. I did that and all I saw was corruption...

[Skinner]

Did you allready changed the res from the default 1024x768 to a higher one?
I couldn't change a thing when I reinstalled the game, and wanted to play with my GX2. Some sort of menu freeze..
I manually upped the res in the user.ltx to 1600x1200 and everything was fine.

AA via CP works btw, but's its too slow.

[wazooda]

Ok... I traced this down to an SLI issue:

If I disable SLI, STALKER runs fine. Enable SLI.... a mess.

So now I have to figure out if there is an SLI profile that will allow it to run.

Anyone running 174.74 in SLI on Vista?

[E30325i 2.7]

I run the game on a 9800GX2. version 1.0005, runs fine.

[wazooda]

I run the game on a 9800GX2. version 1.0005, runs fine.

Are you running Vista-32? In XP, runs fine in SLI with 174.74 drivers. Vista 32 & 64 choke on it.

Well.... assuming that the 9800GX2 always runs in SLI mode by its very nature.... I'm stumped.

Maybe it is a 9800GTX thing then. I've done completely fresh installs and the problem persists.

Hopefully someone with a pair of 9800GTX's can confirm this one day.... :)

[ATi]

runs great here

[E30325i 2.7]

Are you running Vista-32? In XP, runs fine in SLI with 174.74 drivers. Vista 32 & 64 choke on it.

Well.... assuming that the 9800GX2 always runs in SLI mode by its very nature.... I'm stumped.

Maybe it is a 9800GTX thing then. I've done completely fresh installs and the problem persists.

Hopefully someone with a pair of 9800GTX's can confirm this one day.... :)


i run Vista-64

[Muppet]

Vista 32bit here. Stalker and Quad SLI play very nicely together. I'm also using the 174.74 drivers.

[Necrocis]

Did you allready changed the res from the default 1024x768 to a higher one?
I couldn't change a thing when I reinstalled the game, and wanted to play with my GX2. Some sort of menu freeze..
I manually upped the res in the user.ltx to 1600x1200 and everything was fine.

AA via CP works btw, but's its too slow.

That worked like a charm, thank you very much!