Vid card version bug

#1 The original demo didn't have the check in it. The current demo (and I guess current CVS) does.

Plenty of people were having problems with their drivers being too old. The thing is many people do not update their graphics drivers from when they first installed their cards. Anyhow a few people complained. It was pointed out that game middleware like this should have driver version checking, and lo and behold it happened! :*)

#2 I updated driver to version it was checkin and still got the message.

Eventually i ot annoyed and commentedout the msgBox call :p

#3 Ya thats what i was guessing,heh they will fix it sooner or later

#4 What version of drivers do you actually have? The version checking is powered by the DxDiag interface. So it should be very accurate. If you really have the latest drivers and it's giving you noise, it's a bug that needs to be fixed. Can you send me the GFXCardProfiler section of your console log?

#5 I will email you it when i get to that computer later ben.

#6 I have the latest drivers i followed the link from the demo and installed those just for the heck of it.

I think its a bug cuz nothing changed (that i noticed)and everything looks fine in either demo.

#7 My driver version from GFXCardProfiler::getVersion() is returning 0.01

I have installed the 56.72 NIVIDIA drivers.

#8 I have the latest drivers i followed the link from the demo and installed those just for the heck of it.

I think its a bug cuz nothing changed (that i noticed)and everything looks fine in either demo.

This is from the cvs head

Video Init:
Direct 3D device found

Cur. D3DDevice ref count=1
Pix version detected: 1.100000
Vert version detected: 1.100000
Initializing GFXCardProfiler (D3D9)
o Vendor : 'NVIDIA'
o Card : ''
o Version: '56.64'
- Scanning card capabilities...
- Loading card profiles...
- Exec'ing profile/D3D9.cs
- Exec'ing profile/D3D9.NVIDIA.cs
- No profile/D3D9.NVIDIA..cs
- No profile/D3D9.NVIDIA..5664.cs


This is from the public demo

Cur. D3DDevice ref count=1
Pix version detected: 1.100000
Vert version detected: 1.100000
Initializing GFXCardProfiler (D3D9)
o Vendor : 'NVIDIA'
o Card : ''
o Version: '56.639999'
- Scanning card capabilities...
- Loading card profiles...
- No profile/D3D9.cs
- No profile/D3D9.NVIDIA.cs
- No profile/D3D9.NVIDIA..cs
- No profile/D3D9.NVIDIA..56639999.cs

#9 Says you have 56.64

Did you uninstall all previous driver before installing the latest ones?

#10 Oh crap, thats probly the problem,ill redo it and see what happens when i get back home

sorry , iguess its to early to shout BUG

#11 Heh them are the latest driver for win98. so i can say bug.

The .72 are for 2000/xp from here
www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

i search everywhere

I even did a regedit and removed every trace of nvidia before reinstalling the 56.64 drivers.

#12 Wait, the profiler checks for 56.72 drivers. change it to 56.64 and se eif you still get the message.

#13 Yup, no more popup, so now we have a fix for the bug. :)

They will have to change that to 56.64 for win98users.

I wonder if changing that will effect the 56.72 users? probably not.

#14 Well it think my driver version is 0.01 lol

#15 Actualy before i update to the 56.64 i was running the 44.03 and it seamed to work just fine with the public demo, of course the latest drivers is the best idea.

#16 Ya, whats up whith that? Did you regedit before you update? Some times just uninstalling somthing wont get rid of it all.

#17 The whole point of that check is to make sure that people update to known working drivers if they don't have them. If the demo works ignore the warning.

#18 Ace you should really upgrade to Windows 2000 anyway. It's going to be much much better to develop on.

#19 Ya i know i will make the change when i get my new computer, i like win98 cuz its easy.

#20 Lol easy?

WindowsXP is far easier than windows98.

Have much more control/access to stuff.