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old drivers for new video card

Discussion in 'Icewind Dale 2' started by Halberd-Blue, Jul 16, 2007.

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    Maybe this isn't the right place to put this but hopefully someone has some experience with it...

    I'm playing through Icewind Dale 2 again and I'm in the Ice Temple and the lag I've been getting from spell effects has become unbearable because of the number of casters. I searched on the forum and saw that people fixed this by installing older drivers, but every time I've tried to install an older driver on my video card I get an error message (it seems to be a different error message for each driver I download). Usually it says something about having the correct hardware.

    My video card is a Radeon X1300 series 256 mb so its relatively recent. Can older drivers even work on video cards created after the drivers work?

    The slowdown is mostly fixed if I turn off transparent spell effects but then the game doesn't look nearly as good and then I have the problem that the entire battlefield is obscured by spell effects and I can't actually see any of the characters or enemies half the time.
     
    Halberd-Blue, Jul 16, 2007
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    If the problem is all about the game slowing down, I would suggest you have a look at the "Slow game" thread(it's the first, pinned thread in the IWD2 columm here).
    About drivers, I can not say anything...mine is X1600 but I am always using the Omega Driver for my laptop, and as I recall, this doesn't fix the slow down in IWD2 because that's caused by Direct3D or something.
    Just turn the DirectDraw off to see if the game runs smoothly!
     
    Lionheart, Jul 17, 2007
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    Hmmm, I somehow missed the second page of that stickied thread, I'll try turning off DirectDraw. Thanks
     
    Halberd-Blue, Jul 17, 2007
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