CoD4 issues with latest drivers

Ok was wondering.
It is or acts like an internet related issue.
will talk to some of my Klan m8s and see how they are fairing.

 

Also forgot to mention, I had this before with the 79's a while back. I reverted back to the previous (think 44s or something) and problem went away. It's definately related to these two drivers. I can almost guarantee that if I revert back, it will be fixed. Hoping though, that it might be something as simple as a setting I can "flip" to fix.

 

Okay, cool, looks like it was the new version of my firewall as I got a BSOD under the 174.74 drivers which I know are 100% stable.

Firewall sorted, back running these new 177.83's again

 

I have a 7800 gs 256 agp and started getting framerate drops. Didn't have them before. I was going into the teens. Anything under 30 frames and the game becomes almost unplayble online. I know it was my frames and not my internet connection cause I am able to see both during the game and my frames would drop when I would shoot or a explosion would happen. My connection stayed the same. I have no clue as to why all of a sudden the game started acting this way but it did and I think I found the problem. What I did was simply install latest driver for my nForce 3 mobo and also updated my network adapter ethernets driver(marvell), I don't use the standard 1394. I use my Marvell one which I have updated in the past to help fix games like the BF series. My mobo drivers I do believe were up to date but since it's a old mobo I just made sure. Since updating drivers, everything seems to be back to normal. This problem happened whether my video card was at stock or overclocked. I believe it was driver related but not gpu driver. Will post info if anything drastic changes.

If you go to Gigabytes web site, they have a drive checking utility that may help some people out. You don't have to have a Gigabyte product to use it. It's worth a try. Once you run the program, read the FAQ. Not everything with a red x means it's old, even though the program says it is. The answer is in the FAQ.

Windows XP SP2
video drivers 175.16

 

Latest beta (.89s) so far have corrected this issue.... well, I also updated my Xfi drivers. So either one of those did it lol

 

Just last night I noticed that there were these blocks of white fuzz running in lines up and down my screen....walked ahead about 10m and they went away....wierd

 

Thats called good IQ.."LOL"

 

That's usually a sign of overclocking which leads to heating issue and you usually will get articfacts. Could also be bad drivers. Reinstall or update.

 

Kolt you should of used this command in cod4 console vid_restart

 

I'm having this issue too -.- Trying the 177.89 as we speak ^^

 

What does that do exactly?

 

I updated the drivers and still having the problem -.-

Any idea what else one could do to fix this prob?

 

this is the problem i am having mate. same by the sounds of it... but with the 175.19's forceware i got with nvidia... trying beta's now..

 

I use 177.66 drivers & Cod 4 X-fi Fatality has no probs what so ever set my max fps to 85 and the game is very smooth, so until I hear better stuff about newer ones they stay !

 

vid_restart just restarts the video settings. It's nothing major but some say it has helped. Personally I don't think it does much.