Brett and a few other users pointed out to me that the nVidida ForceWare 169.21 release appears to hose video for X-Plane. If you have an nVidia card, don’t update, or you may want to back up a version.

This kind of thing has happened in the past – hopefully a revision will come out fairly soon. (But I do not have contact with the nvidia driver team for Windows on this…)

Also some users are seeing corrupt startup screens with ATI hardware – apparently some configs don’t react well to us turning vsync off. Not quite sure what we’ll do about that yet, but hopefully a fix will be in the next few betas.

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Ben is a software engineer who works on X-Plane; he spends most of his days drinking coffee and swearing at the computer -- sometimes at the same time.

3 comments on “Beware the Forceware”

  1. Do we know which prior version is “good” for nvidia? I am on 169.25, but have back-ups of all this year’s prior driver releases.

    – Robin

  2. hi Ben,

    I have a 8800GT and do have 169.21 since the day it got released and no issues at all, not with x-plane betas nor with anything else.

  3. I have also noticed that the Catalyst 7.12 drivers completely trash the shaded water (on AGP cards at least). Reverting back to 7.10 or 7.11 fixes the problem.

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