Fyrie - Have you considered the long slow annoying process of setting everything to the lowest setting rather than application controlled? And then keep working them up and see if the bugs there or not?

Trial and error is the only option left to us to try currently.


Still have hope someone will post their screen shots on guru3d and ask them if they have any input.

The fact it happens mainly on 88 series and some 86 series and alot of the gurus use them means a better pool of people who might have similar experiences. The fact they can get the free trial of AC and try to see if first hand would be helpful as well.


I'm still over medicated so not come up with any new thoughts as of yet...

 

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I just tried again with everything that has an "off" value set to off. There are a few that don't have an off, so it's difficult to know which value to use for those settings. I could go down the route of trying each of the values on those settings.


If anything, I feel confident that we've proven that this bug existed in the very first publicly available driver. I also got some good screen shots of the texture being skewed rather than flickering to white .

http://s128.photobucket.com/albums/p193/dauger75/Asherons%20Call/8800%20Texture%20Bug/


I will try to start a thread on Guru3d sometime today or tomorrow.

Here is the Guru3d Thread:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=2605401#post2605401

Fyrie - YAY... and I apologize for the amount of douche's it seems you will have to encounter. I do hold out hope that since your smarter than the average "I press buttons LTX NO WORK FIX IT!" poster and you follow up questions and comments that hopefully one of the guru's will stop meditation and trying to levitate long enough to post a solution or new set of ideas.


Having to go thru the settings step by step and stepping them up one at a time is something I wish on no one, but it seems it is the only path left to try.


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I just saw this in my rss feed in gmail... I get no kickback or nuffin, just sharing info...


I hate to say that it might be the final solution... cards outside of the 86 88 series range.

Is there anyone out there with a 9 series card? Does it do it?

Or is this just something specific to the 88 and some 86 series cards?


wubbie - busily hacking up both his lungs to clean out all the crud from this cold

 

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"...Or is this just something specific to the 88 and some 86 series cards?"


Don't forget, the problem apparently doesn't exist in the 8800GT 512, as I and others who've posted (on this thread or others) aren't having issues with this card & AC.

you guys tried tinkering around with the more advanced settings?


Maybe download RivaTuner and tinker around? http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163


I don't play AC anymore but I do notice odd issues with the 8800GT I own in older games as well... Nba live 99 has some missing graphics also with 8800gt but my older 7600GT card had no problems with.

Riva Tuner is a good suggestion. I did try messing around with it quite a bit to no avail.


As far as the 9000 cards go, I haven't heard a yea or nay from anyone on AC compatibility.


I have been toying with the idea of getting another lower priced card to play the game. I need something that can handle 1680x 1050 without choking. I'm starting to think that if I do get a 2nd card, it should be an ATI so I can have my compatibility bases covered for older games. Hardware profiles make having two different video cards in a windows system easy to deal with since you can create a profile that only has one of the cards running. I do like to tinker with Linux quite a bit and I'm not sure how I'd handle the situation there.

I won't mention that ATI cards did result in a plugin called let there be light being created and now worked into the game. They tended to run a bit dark, but a little dark vs screwy sky...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series


Trying to find the differences...

GeForce 8600 GT 256

GeForce 8600 GT 512

GeForce 8600 GTS 256

GeForce 8600 GTS 512

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

GeForce 8800 GTS 640 - Bugged - Fyrie

GeForce 8800 GS 384

GeForce 8800 GS 768

GeForce 8800 GT 256

GeForce 8800 GT 512 - No Bug Reports - GondorB & Others.

GeForce 8800 GT 1024

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

GeForce 8800 GTX 768

GeForce 8800 Ultra 786


Lets mark up the bugged and the not bugged.


wubbie

 

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BAH I was tweaking and time ran out...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series


Trying to find the differences...

GeForce 8600 GT 256

GeForce 8600 GT 512

GeForce 8600 GTS 256

GeForce 8600 GTS 512 - Bugged - Tao

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 - Bugged - Afker

GeForce 8800 GTS 640 - Bugged - Fyrie

GeForce 8800 GS 384

GeForce 8800 GS 768

GeForce 8800 GT 256

GeForce 8800 GT 512 - No Bug - GondorB & Others.

GeForce 8800 GT 1024

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

GeForce 8800 GTX 768

GeForce 8800 Ultra 786 - Bugged - VI


Lets mark up the bugged and the not bugged.

There might be something to release dates or how it was made etc... something we aren't seeing tying them all together.


I found something "intresting"

On April 17th, 2007, NVIDIA released the GeForce 8500 GT, 8600 GT, and 8600 GTS for the mainstream market. The two series also introduces the PureVideo 2 MPEG2 decoder, which added accelerated decoding for VC-1 and H264.


The 8800 GT, unlike other 8800 cards, is equipped with the PureVideo 2 engine for GPU assisted decoding of the H.264 and VC-1 codecs.


decoder cards - bug

engine card - no bug

coincidence?

 

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Reports of an 8600 GT with the problem although the poster doesn't report the specific model

http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showpost.php?p=386853&postcount=46


GTX Here:

http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=32843

Altho - interesting to note, the poster says it happens after a couple HOURS.