Nvidia doesn't seem too interested in it.

"Nvidia doesn't seem too interested in it."


Nvidia has so many bugs related to backwards compatibility at the moment that chances are they won't look at it unless there is a huge stink raise by the customer base. There is a very lengthy thread on on the Nvidia boards regarding bugs with Thief 2, and it doesn't appear like they are sinking a whole lot of time into that one.


HOWEVER, If Turbine directly works with NVidia to grease the wheel, it may have a chance of getting fixed or sorted out whether the bug is ultimately a driver fix or an AC fix. From what Frelorn has said, it does sound like they have been working with Nvidia... but sheesh, how long does it take for a fix? It's been known issue for over a year.

We aren't WoW...


While AC is very enjoyable for a few people we just don't have the playerbase that makes Nvidia sit up and take notice.


If their driver wasn't working for CNC3, Crysis, WoW, or the newest latest greatest hot game, they would be on it in a heart beat. AC as an older game isn't really a priority, and Turbine being involved can only do so much to move the monolith that is Nvidia to fix a problem. More helpful might be posting about how Nvidia abandons their customers with multi-hundred dollar cards and never offers any support for what they broke. Or posts from people saying how they are now using a "lesser" card from ATI because at least it works and ATI fixes the bugs that pop up. Posts suggesting that if you enjoy playing older PC games that avoiding the entire 8 series of cards is a good idea because Nvidia does nothing to make sure they contiune to support anything but the newest greatest games. I find it funny that someone without an 8 series card has offered more ideas of things to try than someone who is paid by Nvidia.


Sadly unless we can figure out some sort of workaround for the bug here on the boards, nothing is going to make it better.

Besides if we can find the right settings, conditions, voodoo doll pin arrangement that fixes the problem, we've done all of the ground work to maybe get Nvidia to look at X portion of their driver code and then rather than 1 needle in a very large haystack its a more precise location they can attempt to repair.


Has anyone managed to create a per-game setting for Asheron's Call and played with the buttons yet?


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Question - Have any of you ever run one of the registry cleaning programs that exist to remove old drivers?


I recently upgraded the drivers for one of the video cards at work and it had all sorts of odd weird things going on afterwards... so I found one of the cleaners and ran it after uninstalling all the drivers and then installed the new driver and everything was much happier...


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Cleaning your reg is good advice, but this has been confirmed on OS/clean installs. In one of the threads over at turbine, a user reinstalled from scratch and the problem was still there.

Turbine posted on tech forum that this is a known bug with no resolution and no timeline for a fix. Once again, we got the "we'll let you know when something changes" answer.

 

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Turbine posted on tech forum that this is a known bug with no resolution and no timeline for a fix. Once again, we got the "we'll let you know when something changes" answer.


And how would propose Turbine, a game company, fix a problem with a hardware vendors problem?

This is not every Nvidia card.

Its not even every 8 series card.


So tell me how the heck is Turbine supposed to make it better?

Turbine has addressed the issue as best that can with the players, have spoken with Nvidia to try to get a good result. What are they supposed to do?


Turbine can be amazing stupid sometimes, but this is not one of those times.


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As I posted in that forum, I'm unsubbing until it's fixed. Yah, I got the game working without the bug in Linux using WINE, but I decided that maintaining a 2nd OS without the ability to use decal wasn't worth my time or money. Hopefully they'll eventually get it sorted out. If the bug affects the Nvidia 9000 line of cards then AC is doomed if they don't fix it.

They did not say it was an Nvidia issue, they just said they did not have an update, but that it was a known issue. If it was clearly an Nvidia issue, tell us that, and we'll go to Nvidia for support. My guess though is that Nvidia is only seeing this bug in Asheron's Call, not across the board. Isolate the issue and its probably an AC issue with Nvidia cards. I don't know who's side it falls on in the end, but Turbine can't just walk away from Nvidia cards...

 

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I have an evga 8800GT 512 and I am using the latest beta drivers and I just did a clean install of XP (because I just did a major upgrade to my computer) and I have yet to notice any problems with it. If there's any information I can give about my setup that might help, let me know.

 

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