Video Card Driver Issue affecting Mouse

[Tyndall]

Hi folks;

Here is my tale of woe. i recently (post April Patch) updated my video drivers for my NVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4400 to the most recent version. I have a P3 1.3GHZ with 640 MB RAM. I use a Logitech Optical Mouse. OS is WIN 98SE. Since I did this update I find AC to be basically unplayable.

Sypmtoms are a freezing of the mouse cursor. Whenever I am in-game and click on or ID anything the mouse freezes on the item and will not move unless I hit the ESC key. I also find the frame refresh rate to be somewhat choppy.

Obviously I am having a problem and the fact that AC ran great prior to the video driver update leads me to believe that the video driver is the issue. However, I cannot revert to my prior driver because other (newer) programs require some of the bells and whistles the newer driver delivers.

Z-Buffering is not turned on for AC....and turning it on had no effect.

So my question is: How can I fix this? Is\Are there certain settings I can make in the OS to fix this so I can play AC again?

Any thoughts\suggestions are appreciated!

Tyndall, Blademaster of TD
Grunts of Dereth

[Draloch]

Just one question. Are you running your OS in 32 bit color? AC can not run in 32 bit , atleast i found out the hard way when i updated drivers. I could see my inventory but play screen was black and i had no paperdoll either , but after i returned to 16 bit no problems. Hope it can help.



TSA.

[Tyndall]

Nope. 16 Bit color only......still hoping for some input :)

[baybear57]

I had a similar problem after I installed a new (ATI) video card and changed my screen resolution -- eventually discovered it was because my refresh rate was set incorrectly. Try tweaking your video refresh rate and see if that helps.

[pacesetter]

heya, might try new mouse drivers also. Nvidia seems to neglect cohabitating with mousies.

[Cloud]

Possible driver corruption.

Completely unistall all video card drivers (and registry) and re-install them once again.

Many people have these problems because they do not completely uninstall everything.

Oh, and another thing:

Avoid downloading new drivers unless the old ones do not work. ;)

[Tyndall]

I'll give that a try CLoud.....and believe me, I KNOW not to screw with drivers unless you absolutely HAVE to. In this case I do HAVE TO....the game I want to play required the newer drivers, else I would never put myself into this position.

I will try new mouse drivers as well......

[Tyndall]

Updated status.

Reinstalled clean set of video drives. No change.
Installed updated mouse drivers. No change.

Has any Dev seen anything like this? Please comment.

Thanks in advance.....

[Mildly amused]

Three options
1) Get Windows XP
2) Get back to an nvidia driver older than 40.xx. I know, lots of new games will stop working.
3) play AC in software mode. It will look as if it was coded in the late 70s but it will run.