WarmMachineME
08-02-2005, 09:15 PM
Here I am again. Usually I'm content to lurk in these forums full of my betters and try to just absorb the savvy. But, some mickey mouse problem always brings me back to the "new topic" button eventually, like some junkie or scorned lover. Almost always in this category, too.
Enough preamble. I hate that they're always coming out with new display drivers. Hate it. Because I can rest assured that when I try to update, something somewhere is going to break.
I fire up Half Life 2, and a little popup pops up and tells me I don't have the latest display driver, and I should install it, or risk potential problems. Now I know they say never to change a working system, but I figure I can't hide in one version forever, so I give it a shot. NVidia 77.72 whql.
Everything's running fine when I install it. The graphical options (on all my games) are maxxed, the framerates are smooth as glass, I figure everything's golden for once. Then I found what broke. Tried to watch a trailer I downloaded from Gamespot, and the picture quality was for crap. It was like trying to watch one of the premium cable channels while it was still scrambled.
Now I had quite an episode when I first installed my vid card, and I swear I got a college course's worth of education just from the trial and error of ironing the kinks. So when the time comes, I have the new video driver dance that I do. Uninstall, safe mode, Driver Cleaner 3, reinstall, reinstall DirectX. If none of that works, maybe reinstall the codecs.
The only thing that eventually fixed the problem was reinstalling my previous driver, listed below. But like I said, I won't be able to keep it forever. So what am I overlooking? What step should I add to the new driver dance? Does it eventually boil down to waiting for a newer driver that just doesn't happen to break anything?
Enough preamble. I hate that they're always coming out with new display drivers. Hate it. Because I can rest assured that when I try to update, something somewhere is going to break.
I fire up Half Life 2, and a little popup pops up and tells me I don't have the latest display driver, and I should install it, or risk potential problems. Now I know they say never to change a working system, but I figure I can't hide in one version forever, so I give it a shot. NVidia 77.72 whql.
Everything's running fine when I install it. The graphical options (on all my games) are maxxed, the framerates are smooth as glass, I figure everything's golden for once. Then I found what broke. Tried to watch a trailer I downloaded from Gamespot, and the picture quality was for crap. It was like trying to watch one of the premium cable channels while it was still scrambled.
Now I had quite an episode when I first installed my vid card, and I swear I got a college course's worth of education just from the trial and error of ironing the kinks. So when the time comes, I have the new video driver dance that I do. Uninstall, safe mode, Driver Cleaner 3, reinstall, reinstall DirectX. If none of that works, maybe reinstall the codecs.
The only thing that eventually fixed the problem was reinstalling my previous driver, listed below. But like I said, I won't be able to keep it forever. So what am I overlooking? What step should I add to the new driver dance? Does it eventually boil down to waiting for a newer driver that just doesn't happen to break anything?