Annoyance

[king_pellinor]

I decided to upgrade my graphics card drivers at the weekend, as Mount & Blade had developed a bit of a habit of hanging and it looked like a graphics issue. So I went to the Radeon site and downloaded the latest set of drivers (7.10), had a quick read of the release notes (no issues), and loaded up. A few minutes later, I started M&B and it refused to play. It was complaining about Direct Draw, or something, so I reloaded DirectX and tried again. Still nothing. UT2K4 and 3DMark both had problems, too. So I stripped out the drivers completely, reloaded from scratch, and away we go. Still broken. So I went back to an earlier version, and there in the 7.9 release notes, I found a comment that 7.8 and 7.9 don't work with my card (exactly my card, no others :-( ), so I should use 7.7.

So I did and it's fine.

Now why couldn't they save me an hour and all these scratchmarks on my head by putting that in the 7.10 notes too, eh? :-(

Still, M&B 0.893 looks very good :-D

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

My theory is that graphics card drivers have a secret 'scratchmarks on head' benchmark that they need to meet.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

That's nothing. I decided to have a spring clean after Butteller and reinstall Windows and everything else for that matter. Everything went ok (once I'd found the odd driver disk in the loft - why can't every company put drivers on their website? I'm looking at you Seagate / Maxtor).

And then last night, catastrophic hard disk failure (the sort where it doesn't even move and chkdsk reports an unrecoverable error).

Ho hum.

Start again.

And obviously the deadline is Friday because that's when Football Manager 2008 comes out!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with this subject at all, but I don't want to phone you in case you're still asleep:

I've got to do relief in Npt Lib. until at 2 - and possibly a bit longer. I hope to be home at 2.30 ish, therefore. It plans change, I'll phone you from LL at 2 ish.