Still running my ancient Nvidia drivers..oh well whatever works no? :arrgh!:

a thousands thanks for the hads up. And what timing, as i just finally got the cojones to overclock my 8800GT. Probably the only thing that saved me was following oclocking instuctions to change fan speed of GPU to manual at 100%.

Good grief that was close. Rolled back to older driver though that ended up being a bit of an issue. every time i would reboot win 7 would reinstall the driver i was trying to get rid of-- with no ability to cancel installation! Anyway--got it done and thx again!

NVIDEA problems?
 

I am running a GTX295 and the game runs fantastic with shadows off but as soon as they are on even at 50% the game loses the smoothness.
I take it this is a driver problem?

I doubt this game is coded to work with 2 video cards which is what the GTX295 basically is. So take your vspecs and half it, and then you got your real video card power for this game.

It's a compatibility issue. While there may be an off-chance that having a different driver version would help, as far as I can tell the problem is common to all nvidia hardware. I hope it gets looked at for the next patch.

ATI cards do not have this problem and I run the shadows on full with no issues.

Typical, freefalcon 5.3 won't work on nvidea GTX295 and now SH5 will not use the sli function. Typical. Hopefully nvidea will address it in next driver that isn't borked.
Great game anyway.

You can force the cards to use "AFR Mode 2" in the control panel and it works with everything but shadows. Just FYI.

I'm running an NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GT and have no issues with the shadows maxed. Running DX11, driver version 196.21

There's a major problem with the most recent nVidia driver with sub-par performance and overheating. In fact, it's destroyed several cards from overheating. Read about it here:

http://www.techspot.com/news/38131-n...ics-cards.html

This is bull... :yep: As I posted twice elsewhere I tested SH5 on an old rig with a Bfg7600GT 512mb card AGP and set SH5 Graphfics at medium. Latest drivers btw and...

Game played flawlessly.

latest nvidia drivers alert
 

196.75 GeForce Alert!
We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.co.uk. Until we can verify the root cause for this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. The 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our website

WARNING - Nvidia 196.75 drivers can fry your graphics card
 

I know some people were saying that the new 196.75 drivers would help out FPS in SH5, but

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/n...-graphics-car/

Those rumours are nothing new, they've been circulating since the 19x.x series was released. I don't know whether they are true or not, but I did have a GPU die on me before Christmas, and that was right after updating to the aforementioned drivers.

Ok
 

I'm running the game now, just got it today and no problem what-so-ever with shadows and you see my rig specs. in the sign.

BTW,,thanks for heads up on drivers. Rolled back.

(Not doing a fanboy/card vs.card debate here, but ATI shouldn't mention to much about driver issues and SLI for example..:salute::D)

Cappy glad you have it running.
For some reason my GTS295 is having trouble with shadows.
I am running at 1920x1200 all setting max and on except for shadows.
At 50% and above I have framerate problem.
Hopefully a future driver will sort it.
I am running a corei7 920 at 3.6GHz, GTX295 no overclock, 12GB RAM and windows 7 ultimate 64bit.
All drivers up to date.

From the Nvidia site itself:

"We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com. Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers do not download this driver. Instead, please stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our website and we also are asking our partners and others to remove temporarily this 196.75 WHQL driver as well."

Ok,,I have one thing different: I'm running a tad lower resolution.

I think it is also driver vs. coding in the game issue, I don't think it is hardware related.

F*cking hell. Good that i red this forum. My game crashes sometime after installing the newest driver from nvidia. I have a gf 260. A table with nvidia driver error appears and then only thing i can do is hard reset

Well apparently this was a bad move for me on this, I just did what was advised and installed these 196.21 from the 196.75 drivers I just updated to a few days ago.
Well somehow that caused my system to stop using my video card, and it reverted to the onboard graphics chip.(Geforce 9600GT, 512mb) And that wasnt working well at all I tell ya. In fact this forum wouldnt work right, could hardly scroll at all...........extremely sloooow.

So I had to do a system restore to get it working right again. Im sticking with these newer ones for now cause nothing was malfuntioning and SH5 was running just fine.
I thought something wasnt right as the system restarted after installing these older drivers and windows finished loading, the found new hardware wizard came up. Since I knew I hadnt installed anything I canceled that. and thats when I discovered that my 9600GT wasnt being used.

You really need to diable integrated graphics in BIOS. :-?