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    Any known conflicts with printer drivers? (NP5760)

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by claudione314, Sep 11, 2006.

  1. claudione314

    claudione314 Notebook Deity

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    Alright, this was really funny... *snickers*

    Prey has worked perfectly for a few days (1920x1200, maxed out, a pleasure to look at and play)... then I installed my printer (HP PSC 1500 All-in-One)... and Prey plays no more: artifacts all over the screen, from the very menu. All other games ( HL2, F.E.A.R., The Sims 2) remain perfectly playable. No other issues whatsoever.

    Anyone ever experienced something like that? I swear the only thing I did was installing the printer...

    C.
     
    claudione314, Sep 11, 2006
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    p_boucher Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Deinstall the printer and confirm it's really this... It's kinda surprising a driver could cause this...
     
    p_boucher, Sep 11, 2006
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    claudione314 Notebook Deity

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    Well, it's been a few days. Eventually I uninstalled the printer and all related software, but it did no good. So I downloaded new drivers (Forceware 92.91 from LaptopVideo2Go) and tried those. Works like a charm. :) Also getting higher scores in 3DMarks. Prey works well and also HL2 stopped misbehaving (for some reason I was getting 20 fps with stock drivers regardless of settings and resolution... weird stuff... and vsync was even disabled).

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    claudione314, Sep 16, 2006
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    Elminst Some Network Guy

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    Nice... I may have to grab those drivers...
     
    Elminst, Sep 18, 2006
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    You may not like to... I'm starting to think they are what has ****ed up my video card for good, or something along those lines. See the other thread (artifacting).

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    claudione314, Sep 18, 2006
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