[sldev] 1.20 wreaking havok with nvidia drivers under vista

[Greg Tomko-Pavia (Periapse)]

Yes, it does appear that there is a problem with the 1.20.0 rc and some
nvidia drivers. It was discovered earlier today as the Crash Hunters
team took a look at the early data from the crash reporter for 1.20 and
found a new and disturbing spike. All the crashes occur in the driver
dll itself, so we don't get any useful stack information on it. At this
point we do not have a repro for the bug, so our best hope for finding
information on it is going to come from resident JIRA submissions.
Thomas, can you please file a JIRA and include a logfile from a session
that crashed?
Thx,
--Per

Thomas Grimshaw wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am having terrible trouble with the new 1.20 RC, the client seems to
> absolutely destabilise my nvidia drivers.
>
> First of all i see small freezes, then these freezes start becoming
> more pronounced, and then the screen starts blanking once every 10
> seconds (with the vista "the display driver stopped responding and has
> recovered" notice).. and then this happens every 5 seconds.. and then
> the system hangs.
>
> I'm using the 1.19.1 client with total stability and no display driver
> issues (as well as other games i've tried to make sure it's not my
> system at fault).
>
> Has anyone else experienced anything of this nature?
>
> Here's my environment:
>
> CPU: AMD (Athlon XP X2 5000+) (2611 MHz)
> Memory: 3071 MB
> OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista  (Build 6000)
> Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
> Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 GTX/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
>
> I'm also using the latest nVidia drivers (i was using older drivers,
> and upgraded to see if it fixed the problem, it did not.)
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
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