bikerdude on 16/8/2007 at 13:32
Quote Posted by dealasteal
I just installed the latest Nvidia driver version for the 8800GTX and nothing has changed. Let me know what I can do to help petitioning for better driver support. .
Dont waste your time, been there, done that, never gonna happen, etc.
Essentially nVidia don't and never will give a shit. Thief is not the only game with this problem, and there are growing numbers of users with this and other problems with the 8x00 series.
Update: I forgot I did read someone in the last few days that supposedly nVidia will be concentrating on finding a fix for the problem with the G80 chip before they release the G90 chip - I wont hold my breath.
biker
Hit Deity on 17/8/2007 at 02:54
Yeah, I sent BFG (my card's manufacturer) a tech support request and I was told it was "being referred on up to NVIDIA" or some bull like that.
I'm not holding my breath either. :tsktsk:
Huckeye on 19/8/2007 at 21:22
Interesting. I just upgraded from a 7900GT (Thief 1 only worked on old drivers) to a 8800 GTX (I had read Thief 1 would work but T2 would not). So I was utterly surprised when all 3 Thief games will play! (however i have the same issue as mentioned in this thread). I merely came to post that all the games work on this hardware. So its bitter sweet for me, I'll take the shabby coloring for game functionality.
Here's to hoping DosBox upgrades to Win98Box for games like these.
bikerdude on 19/8/2007 at 21:36
Quote Posted by Huckeye
I had read Thief 1 would work but T2 would not). So I was utterly surprised when all 3 Thief games will play!
T2 is the only game that has problems with 8x00 series cards, and I have mentioned in other threads that T3 needed a monster card to run completley smooth, which the 8800GTX does. But this is completly nuts for such an old game..
Another classic case of the games houses in collusion with the gfx manufacturers to force gamers to buy newer hardware where there is no damn need for it. This is yet another instance of the hardware being a slave to the software and not the other away around, as it should be...!!!
biker
smithpd on 20/8/2007 at 00:05
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
Another classic case of the games houses in collusion with the gfx manufacturers to force gamers to buy newer hardware where there is no damn need for it.
Actually, I think this is just a case of Ion Storm Austin messing up. They apparently adopted methods or software that were inefficient. Plenty of complex games that were contemorary with T3 ran just fine on the older hardware that was typical at the time.
vorob on 23/8/2007 at 08:42
I've got laptop, Acer 5920, with GeForce 8600GT on board. And I've got all crap that it written in this thread: 8bit colors, shadows, sky in Thief 2, and poor performance in Thief 3, in last one I compensate it by turning off multisampling and bloom, now I've got some strange thing like slow-motion some times, with out any good reason. So, I can run through hallway, all is fine, and suddenly Garrett motion slows a little, with out any reason. Strange. FPS is about 30-40.
Is there any solution? I'm using last drivers 163.44
Thanks
bikerdude on 23/8/2007 at 14:30
Quote Posted by vorob
and poor performance in Thief 3,
Is there any solution? I'm using last drivers 163.44
Thanks
1. T3 should be fine on that card... i would hazzard a guess that the card is running in low power mode on the laptop. You need to go into dispaly properties and make sure the power settings are set to "always on" this then make the cpu and gfx full and full speeed regardless of weither on battery or mains. but dont forget to set your screen off, hard drive spin down and hibernate times afterwards etc.
2. That driver is beta, I would role back to the 162.18 driver which is official whql.
biker
vorob on 23/8/2007 at 17:19
Yes, yes, I understand you, I've got the same thoughts, this slow motion starts when CPU speed goes down. But there is no option in my laptop to stop this. May be there is some program to stop dynamic change of CPU frequency?
P.s. my video card works with full speed.
bikerdude on 23/8/2007 at 19:39
Quote Posted by vorob
May be there is some program to stop dynamic change of CPU frequency?
Hi
Ok the following is
exactly where to change that setting:-
"start button> Control panel> display> screen saver tab> power button> Power schemes>" (set this to always on - but dont gorget to change the monitor off and hard drive spin down times for battery mode)
Also I would install Riva tunner to check the gfx card is actully running at full speed (i know you said it was, but mobile nvidia gfx have been built to save power by powering down certain parts of the chip etc)
biker
vorob on 23/8/2007 at 21:41
No, you didn't understand. I don't have problem with video card, it runs on full speed. I talk about CPU.
