Warning about new NVIDIA cards

[BlkMamba]

Good deal, kinda makes it easier for me then, gonna be running win 7 anyhow and the ati is cheaper
ty for the input

[dethonlegs]

No fixes as yet, but one bit of good news:

"The performance issue with Neverwinter Nights on Geforce 400 series cards is not a hardware issue. We'll be releasing a WHQL driver release update very soon but this driver won't contain the fix. Hopefully it will be in the following driver."

So it can be done, it's just a matter of when.

[Celorn]

I had been trying to get my new nVidia card to work properly with NWN for a while now. I saw that a nV staff member was promising 'SOON' and 'Not this next driver will have the fix but the one after' ... finally I did some serious researching and found a work around that makes it work!

My FPS went up well over 4 times, and I am able to do FRAPS recording again.

This is the info I found that worked:

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I believe I have a workaround. 
1. Download Damian Trebilco's excellent GLIntercept from http://glintercept.nutty.org - this will wrap calls to OpenGL32.dll. 
2. Copy OpenGL32.dll from the GLIntercept directory to the NWN directory. 
3. Copy gliConfig_ExtOverride.ini to the NWN directory and rename it to gliConfig.ini. 
4. Edit gliConfig.ini -- inside of the ExtensionOverride block at the bottom of the file, add the line:

RemoveExtensions = (GL_NV_vertex_array_range2, GL_NV_vertex_program);

If this is not clear, you can search for the commented line

// RemoveExtensions = (GL_S3_s3tc,WGL_EXT_swap_control);

and replace it with the one I have provided above. (I actually removed the // from the above line and all is well).

Removing these two extensions seems to have eliminated the problem for me. I haven't noticed any side effects as yet, but I suspect that NVIDIA's driver team could do a lot better than this hack. You can also go through and disable all of the logging functions, but I believe they are pretty minimal in that config template.

Hurray Neversummer 4.0 ENABLED! NOW I have to figure out why NWShader isn't working with my new vid card... I'm trying to get an answer from peachykeen on that.

[dethonlegs]

Latest news from a Nvidia rep: "The fix was recently checked in to the driver. This fix also addresses a few other titles."

To be released: "Middle to end of this month."

[mining]

Latest news from a Nvidia rep: "The fix was recently checked in to the driver. This fix also addresses a few other titles."

To be released: "Middle of this week to end of THE UNIVERSE."

Fixed that for you.

[dethonlegs]

Hell frozen over? AO Jobs completed? No, but Nvidia have released their beta driver for windows that fixes NWN:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=206522

Can't see any Linux drivers there as yet, so I'm still waiting.....

[Tsavong]

Nice, I don't use Nvidia right now but still woo!