Hi all.

For you, Nvidia 6800 owner (or 6800 Ultra), here is something REALLY helpfull

You might experience crashes, freezes on DM.

Try installing drivers 84.21 (or 84.xx). They seem to work fine :

- No more memory leaks or huge fps slowdown.

- The videos playing fine now (But not with drivers 77.72 or 7x.xx - Intro Bink video of the game plays fine, but not the in-game ones).

No problems found with 6600 and 7800 video card with up to date drivers.

We've noticed that drivers 91.43, 91.47 and 93.xx (or more recent drivers) on 6800 cards are creating memory leak in first chapter of the game.

You should unistall those drivers and then install 84.21 (or 84.xx).

I hope that this will help you guys.

Just let me know if something's wrong.

Cheers

Marco

OH man if this is true it would be great !!

Going to try it in 3 hours as i get home from work!!

I was just thinking of this yesterday evening, but i thought "no this large memory leakage/swapping couldn't be Nvidia driver related"

Anyone that can confirm that this works?

Oh and for the record i'm using forceware 92.91 now with a Geforce 6800GT (and i have the memory problem).

Hmm. I'm experiencing these issues as well, but I have an ATi x1900 card.

In my case, this also solved the crash while loading chapter 4. Tnx for the advice!

Coolio!

Arkane dudes here

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Originally posted by Marco-Arkane:
For you, Nvidia 6800 owner (or 6800 Ultra), here is something REALLY helpfull

Mmm, not all that helpful except that it might provide a datapoint.

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Try installing drivers 84.21 (or 84.xx).

On the other hand, lets not. This includes a bunch of regressions when it comes to other issues, so no thanks.

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No more memory leaks or huge fps slowdown.

Try running something like Purify on your code. The memory leak could be in your code and only show up with these specific driver versions.

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- The videos playing fine now (But not with drivers 77.72 or 7x.xx - Intro Bink video of the game plays fine, but not the in-game ones).

91.47 for my 6800 GT plays the in-game videos without any problems whatsoever.

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We've noticed that drivers 91.43, 91.47 and 93.xx (or more recent drivers) on 6800 cards are creating memory leak in first chapter of the game.

I am sure you notified NVIDIA of this?

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You should unistall those drivers and then install 84.21 (or 84.xx).

How about you guys log a bug report with NVIDIA and resolve this issue with them? Forcing a customer through hoops by recommending older drivers that might cause issues with other games and such isn't much of a solution, but rather a work-around.

Obviously it's just a temporary fix until the patch is released. Calm down man.

I haven't had any problems with the videos, but I have had a couple random crashes, and the loading problem, but restarting the game and trying to load the level again works just fine for me. I'm running a 6800GT as well.

Funny how some people have such crazy problems but others don't, even when they have the same video card. Perhaps it's something else in their hardware. Most likely it's just a coding error. These things happen.

i'd just like to say that i still have a minor error etc, i'm using nvidia 6800 gt pro or whatever, and the game runs perfectly, only got one error and that was a fatal error due to microsofts inapt system.. anyway.. the end movie between chapter 6-7 is messed up and the movie lasts for like 3 seconds then it stops, and it jumps to the loading of chapter 7, which works fine etc, but stubborn as i am i want to see that movie
ok, error number two, i'm using a benq 19" lcd widescreen, and while playing the open multiplayer beta, i changed the resolution from the standard one, i think it was to 1280x960 or something, anyway, once i did that, the screen turned black and i got an error saying Out of range, and since you can't do anything to change that, it would be nice to have a settings button where i could change the resolution before starting the game, and if such a button does exist but i'm too much of an rtard to find it, please tell me where i might find such a delightful button

I have reverted to driver 84.21 and the result was a littlebit better but not mutch. Loading time went from 5min to 4 min and the ingame stuttering was ah little bit better. Setting my ingame texture setting on medium and the rest on high is the best sollution. WIth these settings all problems are gone (no stuttering and about 1 min loading time or so.... Hope the patch can fix this problem?

I reverted back and all seems to be well. I also suggest looking at http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/3921096804/m/2551060794
for I have a 6800 ultra and these settings work pretty well for me. good luck all.

-Josh

Negative on the rollback for me, 91.47 are the best drivers I've had and need them for the other apps/games as they are most stable with SLI. Also tried game in non SLI but no difference.

Only problem for me atm is the memory leak, everything else OK in Single Player - no probs with load times (around 20-30 secs), audio good, all sweet, but can only just get past cinematics on stonehelm before she hits 99% Ram usage and locks me up. Yet to try Multiplayer though.

I presume that a patch will fix this issue, as rolling back drivers is not an option. Will kick back and wait for the patch I think, please keep us updated on the progress

I tried the 84.21 driver and it did nothing. Actually if anything, the game runs worst than before (I was using 81.xx driver before).

This makes me really mad. I paid $60 for this game and I can't even play it.

Oh, and I have a 6800GT by the way.

I am running a gf 6600 and i to get the crashes with the video, i am running the current drivers and i to agree rolling back drivers is not a solution as it can cause major headaches with other apps. Especialling at the beginning of chapter 1. and whats the deal with the game clock its about 24 hrs ahead of my system clock which also can cause issues

Hey thanks Marco-Arkane this helped me out a lot .

I'm running Dark Messiah on a 7800 GT with the 91.47 drivers, or rather I should say was. I downgraded to 84.21 and now only have very minor stuttering when a new area loads. When I was using the 91.47 drivers the game was unplayable.

Also, I'm not sure it matters, but I have the retail limited edition version (DVD) of the game.

CJ

I remember seeing that the 91.31 drivers were unstable, and many people were having problems with the 91.xx drivers.

Most of the latest gaming forums that have games with problems are saying to roll the drivers back to the 84.xx series, and this has helped alot of people.

Personally, I am using the 96.86 drivers from guru3d but I had tried 91.31, 91.47 and I think 84.26 beforehand...they all ran badly.

Yes, this has fixed the 'Internal Driver Error', for my 6800E.

The other problem is crackling sounds and hundreds of echoes which cause FPS to drop to several frames per minute. This usually occurs on load of a Save or when entering an outdoor area with many new sounds. Re-loading the Save a few times generally gets it to settle down, but it is more likely than not to occur at the moment. Sound Blaster X-Fi.

you could all try the NGO drivers aswell, I'm just running through each one now from the 84.56 NGO driver (1.8456) to the latest which I think is 92.xx (1.92xx) something.

Hopefully, I get a performance increase SOON, because using the XFX 84.21 drivers did nothing for me and my XFX geforce 7800GS 256mb agp.

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Originally posted by Soylentgreen183:
Hey thanks Marco-Arkane this helped me out a lot .

I'm running Dark Messiah on a 7800 GT with the 91.47 drivers, or rather I should say was. I downgraded to 84.21 and now only have very minor stuttering when a new area loads. When I was using the 91.47 drivers the game was unplayable.

Also, I'm not sure it matters, but I have the retail limited edition version (DVD) of the game.

CJ

I have to take back what I said above. Things did seem to run fine for a short period of time but I am no longer able to repeat the success I had. I've tried the 84.21 and 84.43 drivers and currently still experience extreme stuttering, making the game impossible to play.

Update: I did find in another thread that there is some bug/issue with the high textures, and setting textures to medium fixes (or rather bypasses) the issue. I've set my textures to medium and the game now plays very well. Of course I'm disappointed at having to lower the texture quality, but I'd sure rather do that than not be able to enjoy the game at all.

Also, since applying the medium textures I have been able to go back to the current driver release 91.47.

- CJ

For those interested below are my system specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
MSI K8N Neo4/SLI
1 GB Crucial Ballistix PC3200
MSI nVidia GeForce 7800 GT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
RAID 0 - 2 Samsung SpinPoint 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA2
Windows XP SP2
DirectX 9.0c

quote:

Originally posted by Marco-Arkane:
Hi all.

For you, Nvidia 6800 owner (or 6800 Ultra), here is something REALLY helpfull

You might experience crashes, freezes on DM.

Try installing drivers 84.21 (or 84.xx). They seem to work fine :

- No more memory leaks or huge fps slowdown.

- The videos playing fine now (But not with drivers 77.72 or 7x.xx - Intro Bink video of the game plays fine, but not the in-game ones).

No problems found with 6600 and 7800 video card with up to date drivers.

We've noticed that drivers 91.43, 91.47 and 93.xx (or more recent drivers) on 6800 cards are creating memory leak in first chapter of the game.

You should unistall those drivers and then install 84.21 (or 84.xx).

I hope that this will help you guys.

Just let me know if something's wrong.

Cheers

Marco

Many thanks for this temporary work-around. This works great for me as a temporary solution for Dark Messiah. I can't wait til patch to get everything/every-game back on the same driver.

Hi !
thanks for the info !
I try with 84.21 ==> the game crash and return to windows without any error message...

I try with 84.25... for the moment no crash..I pray..

EDIT : crach with 84.25 too

Sorry for my english, i'm french

Have a good day !