GF3 Problem - Help appreciated...

[arcanthis]

I just bought a GF3 (Prolink) and am having an annoying problem, most noticeable with FSAA in Direct3D. Of the few games I play, this is most noticeable in Anarchy Online. Take a look at a couple of screenshots;

<A HREF="http://members.iinet.net.au/~yak/AO.jpg" target="_new">http://members.iinet.net.au/~yak/AO.jpg</A> - You can clearly see the horizontal and vertical lines over the image. Without FSAA those lines are not there.

<A HREF="http://members.iinet.net.au/~yak/Omni.jpg" target="_new">http://members.iinet.net.au/~yak/Omni.jpg</A> - Here, I have highlighted the noticeable artifacts with yellow ovals. The cursor left those marks along the bottom status bar.

This appears to only be affecting 2D overlayed bitmaps in Direct3D, the 3D image is unaffected. I can also get similar artifacts in Half-Life D3D (but it's fine in OpenGL) and Grandprix 3. However, in Tribes 2 I can see no obvious problems. The game looks fine in either D3D or OpenGL! Of course, Tribes2 may not use 2D overlays, or whatever...

I've tried numerous drivers, BIOS settings and 3rd party Nvidia tools. I run Win2000, but I've also tried the card in another PC with WinME and had the same problems!

Do I have a hardware problem, or software? The fact that the problem followed the card to another PC makes me lean to a hardware fault.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Alex

 

[HolyGrenade]

The fact that it only happens in Direct3D, I'd say its a Software problem. I'm not aware of any patches or anything, but Perhaps it will be fixed in dx8.1.

BTW, do you have the latest graphics card drivers. I think the latest ones from nVidia are 12.41. Also have you got the latest Direct X - 8.0a.


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[arcanthis]

Yes, I've tried 12.41, 12.90, 10.80 and 11.01 all with the same results. I'm going to try 8.03 soonish (not sure they will work properly with my config though).

I bought this card specifically for FSAA in Anarchy Online. At the moment that simply is not working at all acceptably. Unless someone can come up with some fast advice that works, I'm going to at least try and swap the card for another. I suspect it is a driver issue, but then again, I'm told by others that they don't have this problem (in Anarchy).

I had hoped these sorts of problems were a thing of the past...