june gloom on 3/7/2006 at 15:56
yeah, i noticed that game doesn't run as well as it used to. didn't think it was a video card issue.
Rogue Keeper on 3/7/2006 at 16:03
You mean Thief or AvP?
june gloom on 3/7/2006 at 17:12
i mean AvP.
Rogue Keeper on 4/7/2006 at 08:25
Yes, unfortunately it's an issue of ForceWare from certain version up (61.XX?)
More here:
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http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=9382)
A shame, really, I wanted to replay it again on my new puter with 6600GT and then this... Loved that game.
june gloom on 4/7/2006 at 16:15
yeah, nvidia is shit for customer service.
somewhat related story: i own the PC versions of the suffering and its sequel. well, one day i discovered that the original no longer worked properly: models disappeared, walls were transparent, et cetera. i looked all over the internet, and found only one forum, mostly with people complaining about their problem and how they couldn't get any decent tech support from midway, encore, or surreal software. eventually i concluded it was a driver issue, so i spent a few days jumping from driver to driver, and some of the older ones wouldn't actually install. i couldn't get any help from nvidia, nor from anyone on any nvidia forums. finally i said "SCREW IT", muttered a few curses, tossed some stuff around, threatened bodily harm (with a soup spoon and an old beemer) to all nvidia employees from receptionists on up, and went on to play something else.
i come back to it a few weeks ago, and check a few forums in the hopes that someone had posted a solution, or at least identified the problem properly.
it was the sequel! apparently the installation of suffering 2 was causing an interference with S1's version of the riot engine. the solution was to uninstall both, then go through the registry and delete anything related to the suffering, midway, or the riot engine. problem solved.
