Gens and quirky video...

[zektor]

I have been having problems with Gens (The Genesis emulator) for quite some time. What will happen is the video during gameplay would kind of "quirk" every few seconds. Tonight I decided to figure out why. After much testing and uninstalling and reinstalling video drivers, the Nvidia Detonator drivers are the cause. I tried nearly every version of the driver and they all caused the glitch. I then reverted backward through all of the drivers from 2.8.3.2 and up. It didn't happen with any of the drivers prior to v4.x.x.x. I actually found that the fastest driver of the bunch that works perfectly is version 3.0.8.2. Now Gens once again works perfectly, as does everything else in WinXP w/DX9. So, if you have an Nvidia based card and are having the Windows XP glitchy problem, you'll need to uninstall your detonator driver and grab v3.0.8.2. of the Nvidia drivers for XP to make it all good. I just figured I'd share this advice with you guys and gals...who knows...maybe some of you are experiencing the same problems with Gens, or possibly other problems with different emulators due to Nvidia's new driver set. Here's where you can get v3.0.8.2:

http://www.voodoofiles.com
(click on "nvidia" in the top right corner)


Edit: I also noticed the choppiness in other emulators has gone away since reverting back to the 3.0.8.2 driver. Most notably is the second level of Alex Kidd in Miracle World (SMS) when he rides the motorcycle. The side scrolling speed was always choppy for me with any emulator I ran...not so anymore! Perfect :)

[slurpeepoop]

I'd like to take this opportunity to say Zektor is my hero of the day.

My older computer uses an old TNT2 card, and a few months back, almost every divx or xvid movie started flashing like those epileptic Japanese cartoons.

I had reformatted, and tried everything under the sun to fix this problem, and I never found a solution. Needless to say, I just gave up, and the older computer was used for non-video purposes.

This post solved the problem, and even if you helped nobody else, you've saved my computer from getting dumped in the trash.

[zektor]

Hey, glad to be of service! The latest drivers/software aren't always the best, and this is a testimony to that. See, Nvidia has created their latest drivers with the newer cards in mind, so the older models are not getting any fixes or updates in these drivers, and in most cases the newer drivers are breaking the older support. I have noticed this is a norm among all sorts of programs...Adobe Acrobat most recently. I was perfectly fine with v5, and then decided to update to v6. Bad idea...at least for me. The new version is a resource hog and tends to lock my system up almost every time I try to view an online pdf. Geared towrd a more high powered PC perhaps? Needless to say, it went by-by and v5.0 happily sits on my HD once again. Rule of thumb: if it works, leave it alone!