nVidia updated driver... now farms and things flicker

[Sava]

I have a GeForce TI 4200, and I recently update my nVidia drivers only to find that now certain things flicker in Rise of Nations. It's more of a nuisance than a serious problem. Has anyone else encountered such a problem?

BHG: Is there a solution or has this problem been addressed elsewhere?

thank you

[Graham@BHG]

We have notified nvidia about this issue with their new 50 series of drivers and they are looking into it.

Thanks for letting us know!

[axsaxs]

The very same happened to me. WinXP+GeForce Ti 4200+Drivers ForceWare v52.16

Does someone know if there are around some experimental drivers that solve the problem (without waiting the next ForceWare official release?)

[sun_tzu_159]

I have by accident turned on the frame counter and observed that if the fps falls below 30 a flickering effect is seen. I have Nvidia GF440.
Maybe this will help
Regards
STZ

[shirgall]

Even with a framerate of 42 I see the flicker on my GeForce 2 Ultra + 52.16 drivers...

--jrp

[Iceman_2_8]

Same thing happening with my rise of nations... is there anyway to temporarily solve the problem so i can play my beloved Rise Of Nations again ya this sucks quite a bit....

[shirgall]

Problem is, it appears the only way to correct this is to revert to a pre 5x.xx driver, like 45.33: http://www.nvidia.com/object/pc_winxp-2k_45.33.html

[tomich]

the fix is forthcoming:

http://ron.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=13,3507,,10#6

i wish they would hurry!

[axsaxs]

Thank you for the info, Tomich.

[Colonel E]

I'm experiencing the same problem... hope that fix is done soon.

[axsaxs]

Please can someone tell us if the problem is still there with Nvidia Forceware 53.03?

Thanks.

[axsaxs]

It seems the problem has been fixed with the latest NVidia Forceware. That worked for me, at least.

Here is what I did:

1. Uninstall RON
2. Install updated Forceware (released 1st April)
3. Install RON-Thrones demo (!?)
4. Uninstall RON-Thrones
5. Installed RON: it works.

It seems they rewrote all the campaign map code in RON-Thrones, since it's much more "stable" (scrolling of titles is improved, for instance).