Black Textures Problem (Or Graphical Glitches with GF8800)

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AA is the max possible forced by drivers (Coverage sample 16xQ) + trasparency supersampling and AF 16x.
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No, you can enable 32xAA too with this driver.
Just use the nHancer, it enables some Super/Multisampling combined modes.
 
Oh boy, this is a solution? This is more like killing the patient to cure the illness.  :-P
 
Wow thanks so much for the link to that Nhancer prog. My nice models look even nicer with all those nice extras added :-).
 
Yet strangely enough that piece of software is so crap that it runs progs faster and more stable than XP ever could, is x10 better at multitasking than XP and looks lovely. Vista is better than XP and XP was better than all those before it (trust me I've used them all!)

I was very surprised that Vista runs such an old game! Christian Vista comes with DX10 as standard.
 
OK so i should try that too, will look if i can get Vista somewhere.
 
*ahem* Bit Torrent *cough cough* Alternatively Vista is purchasable from good retailers OEM for about £60 for home premium and about £120 for ultimate.  That of course is UK but would probably be cheaper in the states if thats where your from.
 
*ahem* Bit Torrent *cough cough* Alternatively Vista is purchasable from good retailers OEM for about £60 for home premium and about £120 for ultimate.  That of course is UK but would probably be cheaper in the states if thats where your from.
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No, i'm from austria. I think home will cost about € 100 or so...
EDIT: I've got a question: I have two HDDs, one with winXP and two other partitions, one with a single partition for games. Would it be better to install Vista on another partition on the HDD with XP or on the one without XP? And is there a way to make two partitions out of one so i can split my games partition into two ones - one for games and one for vista?
One more question: Is it better to get Vista 32 or 64 bit (intel core 2 duo E6600)?
 
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No, i'm from austria. I think home will cost about € 100 or so...
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Ich würde aber schauen, daß du ausgereifte Treiber für deine Hardware bekommst, bevor du dir Vista kaufst. Da mangelt es nämlich nach wie vor dran.
 
Christian my suggestion would be to split your XP HDD (depending on size) and have XP and Vista on the same disc. This keeps your OS clear of any of your other data such as games and downloads.

But the problem with that is that if the HD dies you lose both OS's which means u have to reinstall and lose any data that might have been on either.

Alternatively if you put an OS on each HDD if one crashes the other still exists but if I was to do that I would use partition magic to make a separate storage section. Of course if THAT HDD crashes you lose one windows setup plus all your other stuff.

Its really upto how you want to work the setup.

I use vista x64 and the nVidia drivers are fine and your future proofing coz x64 has backwards compatability for the more popular x86 progs. x64 lets you have LOTS of ram whereas x86 only lets you have 3.2gb (even if you have more installed than that)
 
I always intended to make a partition only for Vista, just asking myself which HDD i should make it on.
I downloaded partition magic and i think i'll make a new partition on my second HDD for Vista. How much free Space will Vista need?
And are any things I can NOT do with x64 i can do with x86?

@Mods: sorry for talking off-topic, but thats important for me, and it anyway belongs a bit to the topic  :lol:
 
x64 does have compatability issues with certain programs, and I must stress that it tends to be older programs. x64 has a compatbility software that allows most x86 programs to run so mostly should be ok. Software is bit by bit being bunked up to x64 and vista compatability. Its just a bit of a slower process than people would like but no more so than when XP came out. It should be better than that though.
 
Ok guys,i have installed Vista now (x64, Ultimate Version).

Vista is installed on a seperate partition, XP still exists.
I can load the installed FF7, because i dont have the registry keys from it under Vista.
But i also cannot install a new FF7, everytime i click on "install" in the menu, it freezes.
What could be the problem here?

PS: Once i tried "Run as admin" the ff7inst.exe, and i got a bluescreen :x
 
Running in XP compatability?
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Tried XP-Compatibility, the same problem occurs: freeze of Setup.exe when clicking "Install". I cant even kill the process in task-manager.
BTW: where does FF7 look for registry values in vista?
EDIT:Im such a fool. Its not a freeze, its a loading time...Now ill install FF7!!!  :-D
EDIT2: The installation runs! Im so happy :-D  :-)  :lol:  8-)
EDIT3: FF7 works great! But unfortunately movies arent playing...anyone knowing what to do?
EDIT4: I cant find the registry keys of FF7 for the movie-HDD-twead! i have searched for "fantasy" and "squaresoft" and didnt find anything... :cry:
 
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.
on XP, although mine key is empty because I uninstalled FF7, so I don't know if this is the right key.
Also try a search for "eidos"
 
Yeah thats the key in XP, but i cant find it in Vista...
And, is there a truemotion codec for x64? Because it says that the Video player cant be installed on x64-Systems.
Or is there another solution for movies not playing?
When i enable truemotion playback in ffdshow, i hear the movies playing, but i cant see them and cant go to the new-game-continue-screen.
 
In x64, it will be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.

For the movies, disable FFDshow support for Truemotion (if you have FFDshow installed) and install the upside-down movie patch as mentioned in the FAQ (I have updated the patch installer with one that works in 64-bit Windows, which really just required some unpacking).  This is the same for any version of Windows.
 
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