Question for NVidia users

[irish1958]

Yes; my point was that your old driver (recent driver) worked; instead of using the new driver with its d3d9.dll file, obtain an older d3d9.dll file from the last driver to work on your rig and replace the new d3d9.dll with that older file; or obtain an older one from the internet and use that.
Do you have directX10 or 9? The new driver is probably compatible with and optimized for directx10 so it could be a directX problem not a driver problem.
Again, if you older driver will work with BF3 you are probably better off using that driver.

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by irish1958

Yes; my point was that your old driver (recent driver) worked; instead of using the new driver with its d3d9.dll file, obtain an older d3d9.dll file from the last driver to work on your rig and replace the new d3d9.dll with that older file; or obtain an older one from the internet and use that.
Do you have directX10 or 9? The new driver is probably compatible with and optimized for directx10 so it could be a directX problem not a driver problem.
Again, if you older driver will work with BF3 you are probably better off using that driver.

Ok mate, I have another small question. I have four instances of the file on my C: drive. All four are in assorted windows directories, 2 oddly enough a sligthly smaller size than the other, tho all are dated the same; 20/11/2010.
Should I replace all these four options with an older *.dll ?

Thanks again for the help mate.

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

Ok mate, I have another small question. I have four instances of the file on my C: drive. All four are in assorted windows directories, 2 oddly enough a sligthly smaller size than the other, tho all are dated the same; 20/11/2010.
Should I replace all these four options with an older *.dll ?

Thanks again for the help mate.

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Windows normally calls on the .dll in the system directory unless you place one in the root game directory in which case it overrides the system library. If I were you, I'd try placing the 'old .dll' (which you know worked with SH3), in the main game folder and see if it loads up before changing all four files across your C drive.

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water

Windows normally calls on the .dll in the system directory unless you place one in the root game directory in which case it overrides the system library. If I were you, I'd try placing the 'old .dll' (which you know worked with SH3), in the main game folder and see if it loads up before changing all four files across your C drive.

Thanks for the input Fish, the thing is I already got the d3d9.dll that comes with the res fix in SH3 main dir. I'll try copying that to my C: see what happens. BTW I hvae tried running without the res fix in case you were wondering don't help tho

For anyone wondering why I updated the drivers in the first place. With anything less than the new or beta drivers, I have no ground textures in BF3

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

Thanks for the input Fish...

No worries, happy to help...

I was just looking through the Nvidia forums and this seems to be a very common issue right now. Case in point the following quote:

Posted 28 October 2011 - 01:43 PM
I got an email response from Nvidia Customer Care about this issue, below is what they said to me:

Response Via Email (Ray)

10/27/2011 02:36 PM



Hello,

Thank you for your bug submission. This is a known issue that we are currently investigating. This is a top priority issue and we have a team of engineers working on the problem. We hope to have this fix in a future update as soon as we can.


Best regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care.

So they are definitely aware of the problem, but no time frame given for possible fix. I've been on a lot of message boards, done a lot of google searches, and this seems to be affecting 100% of the people that downloaded the 285.62 driver.

The interim 'fix' (if we can call it that) is to rollback to the 285.38 beta driver which reportedly does work with BF3. For full details, please see this thread:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=213923

Hang in there, hopefully a solution is coming soon!

[Fish In The Water]

Just to clarify, in the previous post I meant to say most users are reporting the beta driver works with BF3 without any of the side effects, (such as blank video in WMP and issues with other games), that so many people are struggling with right now.

Hope that's a little clearer.

[irish1958]

I have nothing to add.