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    Game issues-crashing, no updating, visuals

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by otaku, Jul 9, 2008.

  1. otaku

    otaku Notebook Deity

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    Ok so here's whats going on:

    Neverwinter nights 2-game crashes fairly often seems and since I patched to version 1.5 the grass looks like ****. Also my updater won't update beyond 1.5 because it says a dll is missing. ALso part of my menus is clear and can not be seen

    Crysis: Just installed this today seems the game runs fine (played five minutes seemed fine and I play through the demo great) but for some reason the full game has menu troubles I can't navigate them properly with my mouse.

    The witcher-runs fine except for fairly regular crashing

    The bad news is my other pc (desktop) has problems as well (I can't even install neverwinter,
     
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  2. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    Neverwinter nights will probably run better on a different driver, set "Anisotropic filtering" higher to take care of the grass.

    With crysis you'll need to go to the graphics menu, untick full screen and apply then re-tick it and apply again. It's a known DX10 bug:\
     
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  3. KGann

    KGann NBR Themesong Writer

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    Are you talking about the bug where your mouse is around 2" to the right, no matter what? I download 1.2 patch and it fixed all of my problems.
     
    KGann, Jul 9, 2008
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  4. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    Hmm.. i still get it in DX10 with the latest 1.2 patch :confused:
     
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  5. KGann

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    Crazy... went away for me on my 8400m GT. I never had the problem with the new lappy, but with the old one I did.
     
    KGann, Jul 9, 2008
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  6. otaku

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    Thanks crysis is fine now :) I'll try that in nwn2 but still no update solution
     
    otaku, Jul 9, 2008
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    Did the patch fix it, or did you try Windowed mode?
     
    KGann, Jul 9, 2008
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