broken GTS?

marcel1980 · 03-15-10, 06:06 AM

I discovered a strange behaving of SH5 after some while i get a black screen and shortly after i got an error table saying something about driver problem - it throws me back to windows 16 color mode and low resolution. I have the same problem when running SH4 + it mess up the ingame textures. I tried to install an older driver but didnt help. Im using Nvidia gts 260. Tried to run other games and there was no problem. Any ideas what could be wrong??

Thanks !

jwilliams · 03-15-10, 06:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcel1980

I discovered a strange behaving of SH5 after some while i get a black screen and shortly after i got an error table saying something about driver problem - it throws me back to windows 16 color mode and low resolution. I have the same problem when running SH4 + it mess up the ingame textures. I tried to install an older driver but didnt help. Im using Nvidia gts 260. Tried to run other games and there was no problem. Any ideas what could be wrong??

Thanks !

What drivers have you been using for your gfx card?

marcel1980 · 03-15-10, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jwilliams

What drivers have you been using for your gfx card?

Im using 196.21 drivers but tried also 195.62 ..didn't helped :/

SabreHawk · 03-15-10, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcel1980

I discovered a strange behaving of SH5 after some while i get a black screen and shortly after i got an error table saying something about driver problem - it throws me back to windows 16 color mode and low resolution. I have the same problem when running SH4 + it mess up the ingame textures. I tried to install an older driver but didnt help. Im using Nvidia gts 260. Tried to run other games and there was no problem. Any ideas what could be wrong??

Thanks !

This is nearly the exact thing that happened to me after I went to the 196.21 nvidia drivers after I had the 196.75 ones they pulled from the site due to some reports of fan speed issues.
Those drivers, the 196.21 wreaked havoc with my computer for an entire day untill I managed to get back the 196.75 drivers.
Since then no problems what so ever. And they still dont appear on Nvidia's driver page and the waring about them still appears too.
So I sent them some feedback on this.

marcel1980 · 03-15-10, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SabreHawk

This is nearly the exact thing that happened to me after I went to the 196.21 nvidia drivers after I had the 196.75 ones they pulled from the site due to some reports of fan speed issues.
Those drivers, the 196.21 wreaked havoc with my computer for an entire day untill I managed to get back the 196.75 drivers.
Since then no problems what so ever. And they still dont appear on Nvidia's driver page and the waring about them still appears too.
So I sent them some feedback on this.

Strange. Any ideas what should i try to do? Maybe installing the .75 drivers but risking to fry my card :/ or maybe install even older drivers?

Nordmann · 03-15-10, 03:32 PM

I'd roll back to some older ones, just to be on the safe side. I have a sneaking suspicion that it was faulty drivers which fried my last GPU.

Task Force · 03-15-10, 03:33 PM

Yea, Ive been trying to get the .75 drivers for a while. but am having a hard time finding them.

I myself cant even go inside the sub because my fps`s drop to unplayable, and the game blacks out and comes back on till it crashes...

Ragtag · 03-15-10, 04:03 PM

The same happend with my GTX280 card. It was broken so i had to RMA it.

mcarlsonus · 03-15-10, 04:10 PM

I installed the new video card just before SH5. When SH5 installed, it told me my system wouldn't support the game due to improper video drivers. SO, I uninstalled SH5, went to nVidia's website, used their auto tool to ascertain I had the latest and greatest, restarted, reinstalled SH5 and, lo and behold! Problem solved. One item - I originally installed SH5 yesterday when the UBI servers were (again) down. This likely didn't help the situation...

SabreHawk · 03-15-10, 04:40 PM

Well I was lucky to have had the .75 drivers installed before, cause that ment they were still on my drive in a Nvida folder. So I just went in there and ran the installer, and walla..........all went bak to normal again and SH5 too.

Now as to the fans speed issues, as I read it they said 'some users" had reported issues. That certainly doesnt mean all users. They havent caused any problems for me, and in fact it was the .21 divers that wreaked havoc, and not just with the video. Heck I couldnt even do a system restart, once it failed to load windows saying that a driver was in an "infinete loop" and I couldnt even get my system running at all period.
I have to say it had me worried for a bit, but I finally did get to restart, and as soon as i did i went looking for those newer drivers and found them. And by golly I couldnt click fast enough, I reinstalled them fast as I could before things went haywire again.

remowilliams · 03-15-10, 04:47 PM

I rolled back from 196.75 to 196.21 (GTX295) and SH5 performance went right into the crapper. Went up to 196.34b and it was much better.

03-15-10, 06:06 AM	#1
marcel1980 Mate Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 56 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	broken GTS? I discovered a strange behaving of SH5 after some while i get a black screen and shortly after i got an error table saying something about driver problem - it throws me back to windows 16 color mode and low resolution. I have the same problem when running SH4 + it mess up the ingame textures. I tried to install an older driver but didnt help. Im using Nvidia gts 260. Tried to run other games and there was no problem. Any ideas what could be wrong?? Thanks !

03-15-10, 03:32 PM	#6
Nordmann Commodore Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: England Posts: 628 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	I'd roll back to some older ones, just to be on the safe side. I have a sneaking suspicion that it was faulty drivers which fried my last GPU. __________________ "I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea." - H. G. Wells

03-15-10, 03:33 PM	#7
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Yea, Ive been trying to get the .75 drivers for a while. but am having a hard time finding them. I myself cant even go inside the sub because my fps`s drop to unplayable, and the game blacks out and comes back on till it crashes... __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

03-15-10, 04:03 PM	#8
Ragtag Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 654 Downloads: 163 Uploads: 0	The same happend with my GTX280 card. It was broken so i had to RMA it. __________________ Intel I7-7800x CPU. 16Gb G.skill DDR4 3600MHz. Asrock Taichi X299 mb Palit RTX 2080Ti. Fortron 1000W PSU. BenQ XR3501R LCD.

03-15-10, 04:10 PM	#9
mcarlsonus Weps Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 362 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	I've a new GTS 250 I installed the new video card just before SH5. When SH5 installed, it told me my system wouldn't support the game due to improper video drivers. SO, I uninstalled SH5, went to nVidia's website, used their auto tool to ascertain I had the latest and greatest, restarted, reinstalled SH5 and, lo and behold! Problem solved. One item - I originally installed SH5 yesterday when the UBI servers were (again) down. This likely didn't help the situation...

03-15-10, 04:40 PM	#10
SabreHawk Captain Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Seattle, Wa. USA Posts: 530 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Well I was lucky to have had the .75 drivers installed before, cause that ment they were still on my drive in a Nvida folder. So I just went in there and ran the installer, and walla..........all went bak to normal again and SH5 too. Now as to the fans speed issues, as I read it they said 'some users" had reported issues. That certainly doesnt mean all users. They havent caused any problems for me, and in fact it was the .21 divers that wreaked havoc, and not just with the video. Heck I couldnt even do a system restart, once it failed to load windows saying that a driver was in an "infinete loop" and I couldnt even get my system running at all period. I have to say it had me worried for a bit, but I finally did get to restart, and as soon as i did i went looking for those newer drivers and found them. And by golly I couldnt click fast enough, I reinstalled them fast as I could before things went haywire again. __________________ "Chance favors the prepared mind"

03-15-10, 04:47 PM	#11
remowilliams Loader Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 90 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I rolled back from 196.75 to 196.21 (GTX295) and SH5 performance went right into the crapper. Went up to 196.34b and it was much better.