mxsuprastang Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I just bought an Nvidia 6800gs gfx card and I've never had a problem running dantooine on older cards, but o this one I can't hardly get through it without huge glitches, I even turned all my effects off and to minumum, no difference. I'm running the latest drivers from extreme-G. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dede_frost Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I have the same problem, but I never found a solution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 There's a sticky at the top of the forum that shows how to reduce the lag. You should also get the drivers from nVidia. ForceWare 84.21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsuprastang Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 I had the nvidia drivers but they don't work as well. . .I will try again tho. . . *Edit* Still doesn't work. . .on KotOR 1 or 2. . .what the heck, it CAN'T be my gfx card. I put the settings on all the way low and it still lags. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztalker Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 I have the same thing If i play Taris on the highest options, it will run smoothly. Of i run Dantooine on lowest, i have a framrate from hell. Dantooine is as good as unplayable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 well, try switching off shadows and grass, i have a raedon 7000 card which is TOTALLY not supported by the game but the dantooine framerate is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsuprastang Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 yours works because it requires the older drivers. I've turned EVERYTHING off and to the lowest and it doesn't work. It's gotta be the driver support. many say that the nvidia drivers 77.8 (something around there) work perfect, but anywhere above that, dantooine basically won't play. My gfx card only supports drivers 8xx and up. so I'm screwed until they fix this problem with the drivers. It's not the card, every other level works beautifully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Did you try editing your .ini file? Check the Dantoine fix thing in the sticky about issues with ati cards. It seems that it works with nvidia too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Unfortunately, the only other alternative to the *.ini fix is to get a 512 Mb video card. The *.ini edit reduces the lag on Dantooine, but if your willing to shell out some cash you can get rid of it completely with a 512 Mb card. I wish BioWare would patch this game again. Making players choose between an unplayable or near-unplayable level (that's also mandatory to play through without a modification to the game) or shelling out $105 minimum isn't quite what one would expect from a company like BioWare. [/rant] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsuprastang Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 the fact that my 6600 ran the game fine and my 6800gs isn't on dantooine has to mean its a driver problem right? or can I just "un-update" the game? *edit* just tried the .ini. fix and it didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 No, if anything the 1.03 patch reduces the lag. Before that you were lucky to not have it crash on Dantooine. As for it being a driver issue, if the 84.21's didn't work, it's probably a hardware issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsuprastang Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 how can it be hardware when so many others have the same problem with different hardware? plus, how can EVERY other high end game (BF2, HL2, CS:S, Far Cry) run on high settings and this level can't run on low? seems more like drivers than hardware. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 get the Catalyst 6.something drivers, i believe you'll find a link in stinger's sticky. it worked wonders for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 get the Catalyst 6.something drivers, i believe you'll find a link in stinger's sticky. it worked wonders for me. More like a "miracle" if you could get ATI drivers to work on an nVidia card hehehe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsuprastang Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 anyone else have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztalker Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Frankly, i played Dantooine with a Geforce FX 5700 videocard. It ran better then with my Ati Radeon X700. So i bought the a cool videocard wich i can't play kotor 1 with...nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsuprastang Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 That's the only reason I think it's drivers, becuase the better the vid card, the better the fps, framerate the graphics. . . .period. UNLESS the firmware has problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 ...Or the game has trouble rendering graphics with newer cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevanA4 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 ...Or the game has trouble rendering graphics with newer cards. must be because I have the latest drive and have the hardest time playing KOTOR I with it and mine is a Geforce 6200 256MB card. it regesters in the config as not meeting the recomended specs O.o I think it would require a new patch but bioware can make anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 must be because I have the latest drive and have the hardest time playing KOTOR I with it and mine is a Geforce 6200 256MB card. it regesters in the config as not meeting the recomended specs O.o I think it would require a new patch but bioware can make anymore KotOR II told me my 7800 GTX 512s didn't meet the recommended specs But yeah, I've seen people use newer cards and older cards with the same driver version; the older cards get better performance, but the downside is that they can't run the game on it's highest settings and keep that level of performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 well, after running some test with my new GF7800GS, i've, so far, been unable to duplicate the problem. i'm currently running the 84.43B FW's, and i've had no issues with running the game. if anything, the game runs a heck of a lot faster (i can now enable 8x AA and 16x AF simultaneously. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztalker Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 ^ | | | I did that too, and it looked very nice...to bad it will only work until Dantooine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsuprastang Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 where did you get the 84.43b drivers? And have you tested on dantooine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 where did you get the 84.43b drivers? And have you tested on dantooine? http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html So far they work fine on my system.. though to be honest I only downloaded them for performance in Oblivion... Probably couldn't hurt for Dantooine though.. again however the Dantooine lag was fixed for me using the ATI .ini hack with my nVidia card ("Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsuprastang Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 Yes but as I stated before, that .ini fix didn't work for me. I will try these new drivers at nzone when I get home tonight, time to go lay some tile! thanks for your help guys, lets hope this solves the problem cause when I'm happy. . .nothing else matters :-D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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