ET and new NV Drivers

(joschy) #1

Hi,

I’m experiencing some problems installing the new NV driver (56.16)onto my XP sp1 with dx9b (I’ve a NV Ti4200 128). Et runs well for about 10 seconds and than freezes to death including the picture and sound as well. Also some other games requiring this new driver to be installed.

Have any of you experienced this issue?

I’ve tried to find some workarounds, but I failed. When I put back and older driver, ET works fine, when using the new one, ET dies bad :-/ Other games doesn’t seem to be affected.

do you guys plan to release some fix for this, or do you have any suggestions?

(ECE-666) #2

Its Punkbuster
Disable it and ET should run fine. I had the same problem

(joschy) #3

Hey, thankyou for your fast reply!

Yeah, seems to work with punkbuster turned off, but er… ;o) 80% of the servers require punkbuster to be turned on. Do you know if there’s an update available to punkbuster?

(ECE-666) #4

Just hope Nvidea gets a new driver out that works or that punkbuster solves it quick.
Enough servers without punkbuster for me. Try Dyno-matic or something, great 6 map campaign.

(joschy) #5

Tried to update punkbuster manually with pbweb.exe located in et/pb folder, but no use. Still freezes. I think the punkbuster guys will have to solve this problem, because nvidia doesn’t seem to… I’ve tried the last 3 driver releases, same results :o(

I’ve contacted the punkbuster support with this problem, I hope we have nice guys over there who are able to help :slight_smile:

We’ve a groups of servers running the new maps of ET, which I’m trying to connect :o( will have those standard 6maps from now on :o( I’ll play from linux than :slight_smile:

(BondyBoy007) #6

It is a known issue with PB and the newer NV drivers on non-FX cards, roll-back/uninstall and install older drivers if you want to play on pb servers

There are threads already discussing this:-

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5115&highlight=pb+nvidia+drivers

(blushing_bride) #7

It seems to effect newer FX cards as well. Since i installed the new drivers the game freezes and crashes about once every two or three games. I never had this problem before the drivers. Its not so bad that i want to re-install old drivers but its very annoying when the game crashes half through an intence match agianst the fwuffies on SD’s server. :frowning:

(DG) #8

use older drivers (newer beta/leaked ones have same problem).

Or if you really want these drivers, try running ET in compatibility mode - any of windows 95/98/ME (right click shortcut > properties > compatibility tab > etc).