I hate nVidia!

[Gargantou]

Just tried to install and play an ol' game of mine, and find to my dismay that nVidia has decided to have absolutely no 8-bit support in their drivers, which means I can't run the game.

Now, my question is, are there any sort of custom nVidia drivers that maybe could re-implement 8-bit support?

I have checked the specifications of my GPU (XFX GeForce 7900GT 256MB) and it does hardware wise have the ability to support 8-bit DirectDraw surfaces etc, but the drivers don't.. This affects atleast 3 games I own(I can't play them) and it buggs the hell out of me, if anyone knows if there is a solution, please tell.

Otherwise I guess it will be time to go for an ATI GPU next year..

 

[Nemesis6]

Are you sure something like Dosbox can't compensate for stuff like that? Perhaps through code injection or something? A shot in the dark, but a shot nonetheless.

 

[Gargantou]

It's a Windows 9x game so I doubt DOSBox will do any good, and I know for a fact people have gotten it to work under XP, but not with the GeForce 7xxx series because nVidia doesn't have 8-bit D3D support in the drivers for them.

Heck I even googled it and there were several large topics on nVidia requesting the implementation of it, but nVidia haven't even replied to those threads.

 

[MRG]

You might want to give tweaked drivers from one of the below sites a try. I'm not sure if they will help you, but they might. Which game BTW are you trying to run? I have posted your question on another site I post at. If I get an answer, i'll pass it on to you.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/nvidia.php
http://forums.thezproject.org/index.php?showforum=19
http://www.tweakforce.com/ - (Under Downloads)

It is caused by the fact that no Nvidia forceware drivers beyond 66.93 have support for 8-bit 3D

-MRG

 

[Gargantou]

Yeah, I sitll can't understand why nVidia decided to REMOVE the support, because there are alot of games, such as AVPGOLD that dont work without 8-bit 3D.

 

[Boogaloo]

I have always bought ATi Cards and always will do, as they generally respond to requests, and they seem to run slightly faster to me.

 

[Gargantou]

My previous GPU was an ATI 9800Pro, decided to try nVidia just to see, and for now, my next comp will be a ATI GPU and not a nVidia.

 

[Tyguy]

uninstall your video driver if your motherboard has integrated support

 

[Nemesis6]

Yeah, I sitll can't understand why nVidia decided to REMOVE the support, because there are alot of games, such as AVPGOLD that dont work without 8-bit 3D.

AVPGold works with the latest drivers - A user corrected an incompatibility in the game's main executable. The only problem was something very like this - The game cleared the Zbuffer before it should, and thus no frames were rendered. Sorry for going off on a tangent, but my point is this: After what I think was several months, Nvidia included the user's own fix in their drivers. They're that indifferent. Listen, the error in AVP was a complete lack of frames - Everything was just black. What is the symptom(s) in the games you mention? Because it might very well be the same problem.

 

[Gargantou]

The game is European Air War from MicroProse, the error is called
Error 7217