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Old July 10th 20, 07:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

Hello all,

Yesterday the vidocard of my XP game machine died, and I replaced it with an
geforce gt 730 card I had still laying about. Although it looks to be
working well enough I noticed a problem:

I've got a game named "The Saboteur" ("Sean Devlin" in nazi occupied Paris),
which has a map where you can see where the "freeplay" targets are, and
where you can also place a "marker" (as a directional aid where to go to).

The thing is that the map and the "whats on it" layer are currently shown
with a kind of parallax effect (which changes when I move the mouse). And
that should not happen . Also, the marker is now placed a bit away from the
"crosshair", which also should not happen.

Does anyone recognise the problem for this videocard and can tell me what to
do about it ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Old July 10th 20, 08:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

The thing is that the map and the "whats on it" layer are currently shown
with a kind of parallax effect


I just thought of checking other in-game resolutions, and found that at
least two (800x600 and 1280x758 IIRC) do *not* show the effect.

Although the latter is enough to make the game playable, I would still like
to know what is causing it (for when I decide to buy a better video card).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

P.s.
I've currently tried two different games, and both crashed somewhere doing
nothing much special. :-|
Can't say I wasn't warned during the installation of the driver though.


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Old July 10th 20, 09:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what todo ?

R.Wieser wrote:
Hello all,

Yesterday the vidocard of my XP game machine died, and I replaced it with an
geforce gt 730 card I had still laying about. Although it looks to be
working well enough I noticed a problem:

I've got a game named "The Saboteur" ("Sean Devlin" in nazi occupied Paris),
which has a map where you can see where the "freeplay" targets are, and
where you can also place a "marker" (as a directional aid where to go to).

The thing is that the map and the "whats on it" layer are currently shown
with a kind of parallax effect (which changes when I move the mouse). And
that should not happen . Also, the marker is now placed a bit away from the
"crosshair", which also should not happen.

Does anyone recognise the problem for this videocard and can tell me what to
do about it ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser



Is the driver for the old card still present in Add/Remove ?

Perhaps you could try removing all drivers, dropping you to
640x480 or 800x600 after a reboot, then install the GT730 WinXP driver.

Paul
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Old July 11th 20, 09:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

Paul,

Is the driver for the old card still present in Add/Remove ?


I don't really know. I assumed that installing another video driver would
overwrite a/the previous one.

Perhaps you could try removing all drivers,


Any suggestions to how to do that ? I don't think they will turn up in
"add/remove programs".

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Old July 11th 20, 04:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what todo ?

R.Wieser wrote:
Paul,

Is the driver for the old card still present in Add/Remove ?


I don't really know. I assumed that installing another video driver would
overwrite a/the previous one.

Perhaps you could try removing all drivers,


Any suggestions to how to do that ? I don't think they will turn up in
"add/remove programs".

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


They should.

I think I've had an AMD driver throwing error notifications,
after I'd pulled an AMD video card, installed an NVidia card,
and installed the NVidia driver. The AMD driver would have
a Ring 3 "I sense 3D usage" service, as well as a Ring 0 driver
that talks to its hardware. Both will be present, the Ring 0
driver can't find its AMD card so it should "stop" in a sense.

You can actually gum up a computer pretty bad, if you *don't*
take out the old drivers. I had a Windows install, either
Win2K or WinXP, with ATI/NVidia/Matrox drivers, and it
was rendered to "toast". I had to reinstall, it was messed
up so bad on graphics. No matter what card I plugged in,
the machine would not enter 3D mode, so no game would play
any more. I tried driver cleaners and the lot. Still
could not fix it.

That's one reason for cleaning out old drivers when
you have a chance (just before physically removing
the card). The machine uses the VESA driver when it
doesn't have a proprietary driver to use. In Windows 10
the VESA driver is called the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
driver.

Paul
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Old July 11th 20, 05:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 10:24:17, R.Wieser wrote:
Paul,

Is the driver for the old card still present in Add/Remove ?


I don't really know. I assumed that installing another video driver would
overwrite a/the previous one.

Perhaps you could try removing all drivers,


Any suggestions to how to do that ? I don't think they will turn up in
"add/remove programs".

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

In Device Manager, remove the hardware; somewhere in that process you
get asked if you want to remove the driver. (Can't check exactly where
as I'm on 7 and it's probably subtly different.) Then do a "check for
new hardware" - or a restart - and it should find your new one, and
prompt for where you put the drivers for it which I assume you have (and
have unpacked if necessary).

The system may revert to 800 × 600 while this is going on, so be
prepared (e. g. save your desktop layout [iconoid, DesktopOK or
similar]).
--
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Old July 11th 20, 05:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

Paul,

Any suggestions to how to do that ? I don't think they will turn up in
"add/remove programs".

....
They should.


In that case, the new display driver is there, the old doesn't seem to be.

I also checked

my computer - properties - hardware - device manager - display adapters

and only found the newest driver mentioned.

The machine uses the VESA driver when it
doesn't have a proprietary driver to use.


:-) I tried running the card without having anything installed for it. I
yhink I got an 0.2 fps or thereabout. Even exiting the game was an
exercise in patience.

Currently I'm /assuming/ that the old cards driver is gone, but can I check
anything else ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Old July 11th 20, 05:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

John,

In Device Manager, remove the hardware; somewhere in that process you get
asked if you want to remove the driver.


The only driver I can currently find/remove under

my computer - properties - hardware - device manager - display adapters

is the one I've just installed.

The system may revert to 800 × 600 while this is going on


It did after I replaced the card (and the new driver not yet installed) -
although I could directly select a higher resolution. XP itself ran fine.
I only started to think about a driver when the game wasn't running very
fast (0.2 fps qualifies as "not fast", doesn't it ? :-) )

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Old July 11th 20, 07:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

R.Wieser wrote:


Currently I'm /assuming/ that the old cards driver is gone, but can I check
anything else ?


If you have the old driver, if you have 7ZIP, you could
look inside the driver for sample DLL filenames. Then
check the system folder for such stuff.

Paul
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Old July 11th 20, 08:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_7_]
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 18:52:49, R.Wieser wrote:
John,

In Device Manager, remove the hardware; somewhere in that process you get
asked if you want to remove the driver.


The only driver I can currently find/remove under

my computer - properties - hardware - device manager - display adapters

is the one I've just installed.


Ah, I'd forgotten you'd removed the old card. Yes, I don't think the old
card will show up in device manager if it physically isn't there, so
you'd probably not be given the option to remove it (or its drivers).

The system may revert to 800 × 600 while this is going on


It did after I replaced the card (and the new driver not yet installed) -
although I could directly select a higher resolution. XP itself ran fine.
I only started to think about a driver when the game wasn't running very
fast (0.2 fps qualifies as "not fast", doesn't it ? :-) )


I would say so (-:! I liked your "even quitting the game was an exercise
in patience"! Reminds me of when I was scrubbing some machines of NT4
(for giving to staff), and overrode the "too little memory" after I'd
unplugged some. V e r y slow, that was (-:.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


John
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Old July 12th 20, 07:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default geforce gt 730 displays an unwanted parralax effect - what to do ?

Paul,

If you have the old driver, if you have 7ZIP, you could
look inside the driver for sample DLL filenames. Then
check the system folder for such stuff.


Ok. Thanks.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


 




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