I don't know if this is pertinent information or not, but all of the games I play regularly (Bioshock, Fallout 3, Steam games, WOW) all were totally hosed on 181.20 with my GTX 280 card; graphical anomalies, weird crashes, you name it. I upgraded to 181.22 and the problems went away...
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 12:46 -0600, Kawicki, Ryan H wrote: > I was curious to see if anyone else was seeing the same problems that I > am seeing with the latest GeForce and Quadro drivers. > > With the Quadro drivers ( on a Quadro 3450 ), I am not seeing any > crashes, but I am seeing patches of the terrain either displaying a > black texture or not rendering sections to the frame buffer. I even saw > what looks like a point or two rendering at infinity. > > With the GeForce drivers ( on a GeForce 7600 GT ), I am seeing the > terrain render fine, but randomly the graphics driver will popup a > dialog indicating that the driver has performed an illegal operation and > has requested that the application be terminated. There have been many > reports related to driver instability for the GeForce cards related to > this driver, so I expect that Nvidia is in the process of correcting > this. > > I've tested this on OSG 1.2 and OSG 2.6. I am in the process of > building 2.8 to see if it happens there. > > OS: Windows XP SP3 > OSG: 1.2 and 2.6 > Viewer: OSG Viewer > Drivers: Quadro 181.20 and GeForce 181.20 > > I am sure that OSG is doing everything correctly while trying to render > the terrain, so I might poke my nose around there just to be sure. > OpenGL isn't reporting any errors either. I would like to subbmit a > problem report to Nvidia related to this problem, but I would like to > capture some data on what might be the problem. If you have any > suggestions, please let me know. Thanks. > > <<181.20 Quadro Problems.JPG>> > > Ryan H. Kawicki > The Boeing Company > Training Systems & Services > Software Engineer > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
