Good Morning
I shall attempt to refrain from disdain as I go over the details of the last two weeks of video game hell.
I was having the occasional video glitch in FELH, as described in this thread: https://forums.elementalgame.com/448508/page/1/#3401597
In an attempt to fix said bug, I decided to upgrade my 8800 GT Nvidia drivers to 327.23 from the windows update, the latest windows tested set. This was perhaps the biggest mistake I ever made in the history of owning a computer. Weep for me.
To put a long story short, a complete wipe of my system was required and I even had the added hiccup 128gig winXP SP1 to overcome. Nevertheless, I prevailed, and now have an excellent version of winXP SP3 installed again. (I'll admit....I was very tempted to switch to win7 at this time....but I'd need to buy 16gigs of RAM and an SSD drive if I went that route and I just don't have the cash at the moment.) So winXP it is! Works great.
Anyways, decided load my original drivers and proceeded to play FELH. To my surpise: Video Error. Whole system locked up. Couldn't even ctrl-alt-del. Very frustrating, as I must of updated my drivers some time ago and didn't keep a copy, as I normally do. So, I proceeded to install drivers until one would work. Well....here's the list that DIDN'T work:
326.80, 326.19, 320.49, 320.18 ; all giving me the same lockup and even blue screens of death on occasion.
Google has been my friend, and I've noticed that I am not alone. Apparently Steam is having all sorts of problems with Nvidia's drivers 320.18 and up. Chalk one more reason to hate steam....as nothing else dislikes my drivers. Only Steam.
Finally I rolled back to 320.07, hoping that this time it would work. Still received the following error message in my events log:
The driver nv4_disp for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.
and this brings me to today. Now that I have something concrete to report, I'm hoping that the SD crew can let me in on what version of Nvidia drivers I need in order to have Steam function normally.
Here is the debug.err (at least it tells you my system specs): https://www.dropbox.com/s/kyfqzvvby774jid/debug%20--%20320.07%20Video%20Error.err
Any help would be appriciated.
