MTM2 and Windows Vista

SkeletonKing · Post by **SkeletonKing** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:54 am

ever since i got windows vista when i play mtm2 i cant play the game in full screen or the background ends up overlapping the models does anyone know how to fix this?

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:56 pm

Sounds like a driver issue. Make sure you've got up to date (Vista-specific) driver files for your graphics adaptor. This is a particular issue with Vista as it is new and doesn't have the driver base built up yet for all the different hardware (I think we're still waiting on final release nVidia drivers).

Alternatively. MTM2's 3D-accelerated graphics only work in fullscreen mode, if you run it in a window it kicks you back to software rendering, which would probably be why it appears to work non-fullscreen to you. You could probably get it to run fullscreen without the background being drawn over objects if you open up the game's display options and set it to use Software rendering, but it may not be as pretty.

SkeletonKing · Post by **SkeletonKing** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:12 pm

well when i tried to do that i couldnt even get it to go to full screen

SkeletonKing · Post by **SkeletonKing** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:13 pm

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:56 pm

It looks like a driver issue to me as well. I once upgraded my nvidia drivers on windows 98 and had similar display issues as you see, so I had to roll back to the old drivers. When I upgraded to windows XP I dumped nvidia for a radion card and all worked and looked perfect.

There is no fixit pod that deals with graphics hardware issues.

METH · Post by **METH** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:32 pm

I agree with Mal. I had the same issue with my nvidia drivers and I also had to roll them back to fix it. Try it, it should fix your problem.

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:34 pm

yeah I had same thing with nVidia driver, *beep* me the heck off, but, i was just trying mtm 2 for first time sinc eupgrading to them 4 months ago, so I did another driver update, and it fixed the problem

SkeletonKing · Post by **SkeletonKing** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:37 pm

so just roll back my drivers and hopefully it should work?
because i never had the problem with XP on this comp.

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Sat May 26, 2007 6:28 pm

Well, you can only try it and see what the results are. There's every possibly after rolling back that you'll see a completely different bug, lol.

If it's not right with the latest drivers, roll back. If need be, roll back to the earliest you can (or uninstall the graphics card in Device Manager, reboot and install an old set of drivers), and if it still looks weird then it's time to start testing with incrementally more recent drivers.

Diggerdude wrote:i never had the problem with XP on this comp.

Did you happen to do an upgrade from XP to Vista, or a clean install?

SkeletonKing · Post by **SkeletonKing** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:19 am

i did a clean install. which is prob. why Im having the problems

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:51 am

Nooo, a clean install should be the best way to go. Gives you a clean foundation, so to speak.

SkeletonKing · Post by **SkeletonKing** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:07 pm

ok so i went to go and roll back my drivers today and the button to roll back them is not clickable...

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:43 pm

Okay, so you must already be using the earliest version of the drivers Vista has, hence there's nothing to roll back to.

Which is good actually. These probs can be expected with early/old version drivers, which means an update is more likely to fix it. So go to nvidia.com or ati.com (whichever for your graphics card) and update them already.

SkeletonKing · Post by **SkeletonKing** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:06 pm

ok all i know is i have a GeForce i dont know where to look for it.

(*sorry for being a pain

)

Mat-Allum · Post by **Mat-Allum** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:19 pm

GeForce = your card is an nVidia

You can get your drivers from www.nvidia.com