Simple Effective Workearound for OpenGL Sutter

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Effective workaround who works for eveyone so far is go to

Display Properties / Settings / Troubleshoot /

And move Hardware Acceleration by one step back

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But its only eliminates sutter game crashes after few minutes anyways :rolleyes:

Game i play is Soldier Of Fortune 2

[Megatron]

A simpler workaround....Use D3D:D

Ya ..i know..not much help hehe.

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Originally posted by Megatron
A simpler workaround....Use D3D:D

Ya ..i know..not much help hehe.

LOL i would but not all games can run in D3D you can't run SOF2 or Quake in D3D as far as i know :eek:

[saturnotaku]

Originally posted by Megatron
Ya ..i know..not much help hehe.

That's no help at all considering Soldier of Fortune uses the Quake 3 engine which is based in a real API.

[Kruno]

I played SOF2, JK2, SS:SE. All had no problems whatsoever.

Meaning, for the people who do have z-buffer problems etc... when playing games I would suspect that something is playing up with their system.

Drivers work perfect for me. Not 1 problem. So can it be the drivers if they work perfectly on my system?
Yes and no, it's not the drivers fault that there is an incompatibility between hardware/software or whatnot.

It is the drivers fault that it has failed to maintain 100% compatibility with different systems with different software/hardware.

I guess I should be thankful that I have no problems.


Might I just add that it really isn't possible to maintain 100% compatibility all round. :)
I wonder how many combinations of systems there are. :)

[jbirney]

Originally posted by K.I.L.E.R
I guess I should be thankful that I have no problems.

I also dont have any issues. All games (openGL and D3D) play fine for me with the new drivers.

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Suttering apears when you play Online with DirectX 9 + Cats 3.0

If you play while disconected from internet there is no problem weird , but one guy made tes already its Service Pack 1 for Win Xp that screws up thing without it everything works just fine :rolleyes:

[Kruno]

I played JK2 online this morning. No stuttering for me.

Originally posted by -=DVS=-
Suttering apears when you play Online with DirectX 9 + Cats 3.0

If you play while disconected from internet there is no problem weird , but one guy made tes already its Service Pack 1 for Win Xp that screws up thing without it everything works just fine :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by K.I.L.E.R
I played JK2 online this morning. No stuttering for me.


Well i didn't try JK2 my self but others have sutter but

Do you have Quake 3 or SOF2 And do you have SP1 for WinXp installed ?
I assume you have DX9 + cats 3 installed :confused:

[nin_fragile14]

With the 2.5 drivers, I could run all my OpenGL programs with AIM and Winamp open without any stutters. Now, with Winamp open, it will stutter every couple of seconds. However, if I play a game without Winamp or AIM on (which isn't TOO inconvienent) it works fine. It's still inexcusable and annoying, but it is stutter-free for me with everything closed down.

[jbirney]

Hmmm I am on Win2k not suttering for my in OpenGL games online or off. And I do play a lot of SOF2 and JK2....

[Kruno]

Yes, Yes, Yes. :)

Originally posted by -=DVS=-
Well i didn't try JK2 my self but others have sutter but

Do you have Quake 3 or SOF2 And do you have SP1 for WinXp installed ?
I assume you have DX9 + cats 3 installed :confused:

[Riptide]

I initially had serious stuttering with serious (no pun intended) sam 2. It was in the menus and was so horrible that I could barely navigate them. Never bothered to start a game since it was so ugly.

I don't know if this will help anyone else but after I got it switched over to D3D and got the resolution adjusted to 1600x1200 it seems fine now after switching BACK over to GL. It was ofcourse fine when I had it in D3D briefly. Was I lucky that it went away?

Obviously, this "fix" wouldn't work with Quake3 or any other entirely GL dependent game.

[Megatron]

Originally posted by saturnotaku
That's no help at all considering Soldier of Fortune uses the Quake 3 engine which is based in a real API.

Hehe..yeah thats why i threw the smiley in there. Didnt mean it to be a serious help suggestion. Was just having some fun.

But on a serious note...who besides JC uses this "real API" instead of D3D.Lets face it D3D is huge.
Im sure Ill use OGL when Doom3 comes out, but basically If its tab disappeared from my control panel tomorrow..i wonder how long it would take before i noticed....more than likely not till i bought and tried to play Doom3. :)

[saturnotaku]

That's a damn shame, too. OpenGL is so much cleaner and simpler to code for than D3D. If there's an option to use OpenGL in a game, by gum I'm going to use it. UT, UT2003, Quake 3 and its ilk, etc. I hate Direct3D, but sometimes we have no choice. :(

[Fusion]

Simple Effective Workearound for OpenGL Sutter

Don't buy ATI

[Kruno]

Too late. :p
Though I never once regretted my purchase. :p
Even fixed the Vsync issue with Blood 2. :)


Originally posted by Fusion
Don't buy ATI

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Originally posted by Fusion
Don't buy ATI

I agree sometimes they screw up more often probably then make it good , ATIis driver departament is lazy :p


But hey Nvidia is not perfect either :D

[Fusion]

I agree sometimes they screw up more often probably then make it good , ATIis driver departament is lazy

Their Hardware is excellent, but their drivers are another story.

I work in IT, and if it wasn't for the state of their drivers, I would own one.