my old Video Card died(Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS)
and now i have got another one, a Nvidia Geforce 8800GT and since i changed the clouds have been like this:


any idea what the cause could be? the driver is probably 1 or 2 months old, is that too much?

Do you have shadows in game set to full? If so, set to planar.

I think it's a driver issue .

You could revert back to an older driver (i think from before 180.** and you should be fine, if that is worth it to you .

and how do i do that?

google "old nvidia drivers" or something like that. there are a few sites that keep archives. maybe even the nvidia site does. i know ati does, but i haven't used an nvidia card since my old mx440

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Originally posted by general_kalle:
and how do i do that?

You did install a new video card driver when you put the new card in the computer right ?

These are the newest drivers for WINDOWS XP 32 bit , but i fear those will make the clouds blocky as well, as they do with me to .http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_185.85_whql.html

These are older drivers that you could give a try also for WINDOWS XP 32 bit :

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Ge...t-download-2087.html

Last one is from guru3d . They have pretty much all drivers that matter.

Once again, i assume you are still running windows XP 32 bit, and NOT windows vista .

correkt... ill try one of the older drivers.

Change the anti-aliasing and/or antiscoptic setting in your nvidia drivers.

set them higher or lower???

turning them off would be the best bet to determine if that is the problem.

tried it all...no joy

hi !
i had the same problem (8800 GT). i had to lower the AA in the Nvida panel from X4 to X2 (AA option : override application) and everything was normal again. It could be also driver related, i am using at the moment the latest 185.xx and is working fine.
best wishes, i'm sure you'll get it going!

THANK YOU ARAGAZ!!!

wondering about this for a while and that worked perfectly.

AA=Anti Aliasing???

under that i have
Anti-Aliasing Gamma correktion (on)
Anti-Aliasing Transparancy (Supertrying)

Anti-Aliasing Setting
(which I set to 2x for Lock on, before it was on 16xQ)

Anti-Aliasing state (improves program setting)

I translated it all from Danish so some of it might be wrong due to bad translation.

is that what you meant?

no joy

quote:

Anti-Aliasing Setting
(which I set to 2x for Lock on, before it was on 16xQ)

From what i have read it is this setting. Try differnet numbers, 2, 4, 8 etc.

Da jeg går ud fra at du er dansker så får du lige en kort instruks om hvordan du klarer problemet.
Først starter du Nvidia Control panel og gør så følgende:
I 3D settings trykker du på add og navigerer til din lockon mappe og tilføjer lockon.exe.
under Antialiasing skifter du til "Override any application setting"
og problemet skulle være løst.

jeps det er jeg.
tog samme instillinger som dig og det fixede det...

Thanks for the help, that did it.

Well i'll be damned. Worked for me to.

Before i had tried with 8x AA, and NO AA . Would have thought that if it was an AA problem that setting it to disable would have done the trick.
Guess not . 2xAA it is .