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Dinkleberry

Member Since 21 Dec 2007
Offline Last Active Dec 24 2007 01:29 PM

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In Topic: IE games and NVidia Series 8 video cards

21 December 2007 - 06:23 AM

I just downloaded some graphics drivers that are only a week old and they seem to have fixed a lot of the transparency issues I was having. Instead of the inventory being almost unusable, there are black boxes bounding item icons - a minor issue. The clock in the lower left of the UI also used to look messed up but it has improved a little. The only major problem seems to be the fog of war occasionally becoming solid black squares, but flipping the map view on and off solves it. I recommend others to check the drivers out but as I'm on a laptop, the NVidia drivers were only available from the dell site for that laptop (NVidia have got a funny policy regarding drivers for portable cards).

In Topic: IE games and NVidia Series 8 video cards

21 December 2007 - 03:55 AM

Ok doke. Cheers for the quick response. I'll dig out an old PC at some point and play it on there.

In Topic: IE games and NVidia Series 8 video cards

21 December 2007 - 03:31 AM

Hi, I'm going through an IE phase at the moment and I've just completed BG (First normally, then in Tutu, doing the ToTSC quests) and started on Planescape this morning. I'm running a 1.4Ghz Core 2 Duo Dell Vostro 1500 laptop with a Nvidia 8400 GPU. I'm having visual transparency issues which seem are resolved by the above method of turning on Software Transparency. However, doing this make the game quite sluggish - but only in full screen mode. When it's windowed I find it annoyingly small, but it works ok. Is there any hack to make it less jerky in full screen with that option enabled? I've just tried the Widescreen mod but it didn't seem to change much.