Gothic 2 and other games with 8600m

Hi everybody!

Gothic 2 is an old game which gives me problems. It is running under directX7 I think, and when I tried to play it it seems like the keyboard keys got stuck or something. Whenever I press whatever key, that key is pressed in the game for some seconds even though it isn't really physically pressed.

The problem reminds me of a V-sync issue I had with another old game, Unreal Tournament '99, which doesn't want to run in opengl (like it had always!), but only in directX, and it displayed similar problems, until I forced v-sync off in the nvidia control panel. Bioshock displayed similar errors until i turned the v-sync off.

I think that this problem isn't named stuttering, but it has to be named some other way and I don't know how to search for solution. I mean, I can't be the only one with this problems.

The other thing is opengl - I have stock drivers and I tried other ones, but opengl just doesn't work. I have to try it in applications as well, but are there any test programs for opengl? Just to make sure if it's driver issue or a broken card.. I just got C90 back from repair service and I need to prove I have a broken card before they replace it.. It works with test programs (3dmark), but some games give me problems and I must be sure the card is not broken..

I have to test other games too.. until now only Jericho is giving me problems, I can't change the resolution to anything below 1680x1050 without the game freezing in the midst of resolution change. New motherboard seems to stabilize the system so DirectX games are working at last...

Thanks..

 

What drivers are you using?

 

Right now stock drivers from asus (V6.14.11.117 - 2007/06/27 update) and I tried 169.01 and 04 too, opengl just wouldn't work and I can't find if Gothic has forced V-sync setting somewhere turned on..

 

Gothic 2 works great with 169.04 on my machine...

Don't really know what to say. nVidia Control Panel was left untouched, everything worked fine from the word go...

 

Ok I finaly got everything working like it should work from the start.. and I made it with TinyXP Platinum 2 from eXperience.. funny that genuine windows xp allways had some kind of problem, from wireless, audio or graphic.. not one time everything worked at the same time.. i guess only in vista everything worked, but i deleted it as fast as i got my hands on c90..

Gothic in an amazing game B)