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Skinner
03-02-07, 08:41 AM
I hope these drivers are released today. It would be very nice to have them before the weekend.

Yeah thinking the same, I want to go over to Vista64 for good this weekend.
garikfox
03-02-07, 09:17 AM
Any hr. new drivers ! Woohoo ! :captnkill: :D ;)
grey_1
03-02-07, 10:57 AM
O RLY?? I'll keep that in mind next time I try FEAR. I still couldn't get that damn thing to stay running at full fps. Everytime I load it after about 5 mins it tanks for no reason.
From the 'readme' in FEAR
Creative:

* If you are using a Creative brand sound card and get poor framerates when
sound hardware acceleration is enabled, then check for a process called
"CtHelper"in the Windows(R) task manager. If it's there, terminate it and
try the game again. If this works, please contact Creative to learn
how to permanently disable CTHelper. If CTHelper is not present in the list
and the problem occurs anyway, then you will need to disable sound hardware
acceleration in the Sound section of the game's options menu, or in the
Windows control panel, or in DxDiag.

* If you are using an SBLive! card and notice strange clicking sounds in the
music after using Alt-tab to task switch out of the game to windows and then
back again. To fix the problem, just quit out of and restart the game
application.
DarkOneX
03-02-07, 11:03 AM
1) CTHelper wasn't causing me problems in FEAR in Windows XP so I never killed it, but it was running

2) CTHelper was running I found in Vista last night, disabled it, still have the same problem.
grey_1
03-02-07, 11:19 AM
I never had framerate trouble with it, just missing sounds, which that fixed. I hope you guys are able to get that sorted soon, A+ title on state of the art hardware, I'd bit a bit frustrated ...
lukrad
03-02-07, 04:16 PM
We might see drivers today :D
grey_1
03-02-07, 04:19 PM
We might see drivers today :D
I'll not get my hopes up, but it would be nice..
einstein_314
03-02-07, 04:44 PM
We might see drivers today :D
That would be awesome....but I'm skeptical...
particleman
03-02-07, 05:19 PM
If they fix flat panel scaling on 8800 series, it's safe to say it's a revolution.

That is the big thing that caught my eye too. I really hope the upcoming drivers address this, this bug has been lingering for far too long. If the driver is missing this fix I will be terribly dissappointed.
einstein_314
03-02-07, 05:28 PM
If they fix flat panel scaling on 8800 series, it's safe to say it's a revolution.
I'm curious why you want to scale your flat panel...you have a 8800GTX...you shouldn't need to run anything at less than your monitors native resolution...
Ati75
03-02-07, 05:47 PM
I'm curious why you want to scale your flat panel...you have a 8800GTX...you shouldn't need to run anything at less than your monitors native resolution...


He probably doesn't want games that do not support 16:10 resolutions to be stretched.
particleman
03-02-07, 06:32 PM
I have a Dell 30'' monitor which is 2560x1600, 16x10 aspect ratio. There are still a decent number of games that don't support widescreen. And 2560x1600 pushes even a 8800 GTX in some games.

I'm curious why you want to scale your flat panel...you have a 8800GTX...you shouldn't need to run anything at less than your monitors native resolution...
Dr.Nick
03-02-07, 07:05 PM
I have a Dell 30'' monitor which is 2560x1600, 16x10 aspect ratio. There are still a decent number of games that don't support widescreen. And 2560x1600 pushes even a 8800 GTX in some games.


No scaling control on the monitor itself? I find it best to do control that through the monitor and that dell should have it
MaxyPads
03-02-07, 07:23 PM
No scaling control on the monitor itself? I find it best to do control that through the monitor and that dell should have it

I don't believe it's available on the Dell 30", the 2407WFP has it, so does the 2405FPW..

not the 30" though...it runs natively 2560x1600 and anything smaller is just stretched.
Dragunov
03-03-07, 07:00 AM
Ya I know about the OpenAL, already got Alchemy installed and EAX works in it, however whaddya mean the "graphix can be OpenGL"?

OpenAL: Open Audio Language
OpenGL: Open Graphics Language

Well, they are not the same, one is for audio, the other one is for graphics, so a game can use directsound/directx, directsound/OpenGL, OpenAL/DirectX or OpenAL/OpenGL :)

But maybe I didn't think about ur answer quite well :)
K007
05-03-07, 07:02 AM
Would like to thank you for making 7950GX2 work properly when installing Vista. Before it would BSOD because of the SLI function in the GPU, but now it only installs 1 GPU with Vista drivers, so it runs in Single GPU mode and lets me update drivers and install the OS without any problems.
sothcom
05-07-07, 01:43 PM
I don't believe it's available on the Dell 30", the 2407WFP has it, so does the 2405FPW..

not the 30" though...it runs natively 2560x1600 and anything smaller is just stretched.

I'm using the 2407WFP... and I know exactly where the scaling options are on the monitor on-screen menu options, but for some reason, it's "greyed" out - the option for "Do not scale" (I can't remember the exact verbiage) wasn't selectable. Is there something else I need to do first before I can access this?
Dr.Nick
05-07-07, 02:16 PM
I'm using the 2407WFP... and I know exactly where the scaling options are on the monitor on-screen menu options, but for some reason, it's "greyed" out - the option for "Do not scale" (I can't remember the exact verbiage) wasn't selectable. Is there something else I need to do first before I can access this?


Change the monitor resolution to something other than its native one. It should be available then