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by **Arto Wik** » Sun, 22 Apr 2001 03:42:45

Hi GPL'ers,

I have a graphics problem that is not so severe, but it might
be the cause of my failure in staying on-line, too.

Now when I have updated drivers, went to DX80.a, ..., always,
when I come back from track to the pits screen, the background
is flashing. If I push the red button and then cancel, the
screen is ok.

Any clever suggestions?

My system: AMD 1.1 GHz, GF2 GTS 32Mb, driver 4.12.01.0634,
monitor Triniton CPD-E220E.

Arto

by **sudes** » Sun, 22 Apr 2001 05:37:04

I have the same thing, haven't tried it online though (not that good yet)
It seems to be a 'feature' og the GF series of cards....

Sudesh

by **Bart Westr** » Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:06:58

It's the 6.34 driver (and later versions) in combination with GPL. The 5.33
drivers don't have this problem. You might also try the newest 12.00 driver,
my impression is that it happens less often in this version. You'll find all
driver versions here:
http://www.m3dzone.com/files.php?directory=Videocards/NVIDIA/Drivers/...

Bart Westra

by **Simon Brow** » Sun, 22 Apr 2001 10:02:53

Well, it's not a failure of the card as such, just the beta D3D renderer.

by **J. Janaso** » Sun, 22 Apr 2001 10:43:00

I"m using DX8a, with the 6.5 drivers and have no problems with the D3D
patch?

J. Janasov

> > Hi GPL'ers,

> > I have a graphics problem that is not so severe, but it might
> > be the cause of my failure in staying on-line, too.

> > Now when I have updated drivers, went to DX80.a, ..., always,
> > when I come back from track to the pits screen, the background
> > is flashing. If I push the red button and then cancel, the
> > screen is ok.

> > Any clever suggestions?

> > My system: AMD 1.1 GHz, GF2 GTS 32Mb, driver 4.12.01.0634,
> > monitor Triniton CPD-E220E.

> > Arto

> It's the 6.34 driver (and later versions) in combination with GPL. The
5.33
> drivers don't have this problem. You might also try the newest 12.00
driver,
> my impression is that it happens less often in this version. You'll find
all
> driver versions here:
> http://www.m3dzone.com/files.php?directory=Videocards/NVIDIA/Drivers/...

> Bart Westra

by **Don Chapma** » Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:36:33

This has been a long standing problem with GPL. It should not have anything
to do with your on-line connections. In fact, it is stricly just an
annoyance as I have never had it cause any major problems with my racing.
Just flashing in the menus. It is not just a D3D or nvidia GeForce issue
either. I have had this problem virtually from the get go in 1998 with a
Voodoo2 and the Glide driver for GPL.

-Don Chapman

by **Andre Warrin** » Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:08:48

Imo it is definately a driver problem. Couple of weeks ago when I
bought my GFII GTS, I tried allmost all available drivers.
With some drivers I had the flickering, with some I didn't.
It's annoying but not really a problem. Just press escape once and
click cancel, or go to your setup menu and return, and the flickering
stops.
More annoying with the d3d patch is the problem with the miss-colored
flags..

Andre

by **Arnold B??hle** » Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:47:41

Had the same problem with my V5500. Solved in disabeling Triple Buffering
and MIP Map Dithering.

Hope this helps
Arnold Buehler

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