[ stepmania-Bugs-1285640 ] Crashes when using the newest nVIDIA Forceware drivers

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Bugs item #1285640, was opened at 2005-09-08 23:34
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Category: Fatal Crashes
Group: Current: v3.9 rc3
>Status: Pending
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Saturn Ghadyani (saturn2888)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Crashes when using the newest nVIDIA Forceware drivers

Initial Comment:
Forceware drivers version 77.77 from nVIDIA do not work
with Stepmania in both rc2 and 3. I go back to the
outdated 66.93 drivers and everything works fine. The
older drivers are from the Omegadrivers person and the
77.77 drivers I used are the DNA-drivers version. I
need the 77.77 drivers to run newer games, but I can't
use them if I want to play Stepmania.

My PC (no overclocking):
WinXP Pro
Athlon 64 3000+ Venice core
512 MB DDR400 RAM
XFX Geforce 6600GT
DFI Lanparty Ultra-D motherboard
Need anything else?

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>Comment By: Chris Danford (chrisdanford)
Date: 2005-09-23 23:51

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I'm using 78.01 from Nvidia on a GeForce3 and am not hitting
the same crash.

- If you use the official Nvidia drivers instead of the
tweaked DNA-drivers version, do you get the same crash?
- Do you use any tricky display settings (Multi-mon, TV-out,
mirrored display)?

You may want to try forcing use of Direct3D instead.  Open
Data/StepMania.ini and add the line "VideoRenderers=d3d" to
the bottom.

Thanks.

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Comment By: Ben Anderson (bashmaster)
Date: 2005-09-22 14:06

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Don't change the priority, it's for developer use only.

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Comment By: Dicion (dicion)
Date: 2005-09-17 09:58

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Nvidia Drivers above 73.xx have known issues with TV-out 
capabilities with some cards. They incorrectly identify the 
onboard TVout chipset, and as a result, TV-out does not 
work properly.

If This is a problem with TV-out, then it is an issue with 
Nvidia's drivers. I have the newest Drivers on this system, and 
Stepmania runs fine, so long as I use a monitor, and not TV-
out.

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