Graphix issue with Legion Arena

BAKnight · Post by **BAKnight** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:06 am

I bought this game for my son last year. He's been playing just fine and loves it, but the other day, the game play window suddenly broke up into 16 individual windows and re-arranged themselves like a jigsaw puzzle. I un-installed and re-installed the game, but it's still doing it. Has anyone else had an issue with the game running fine then all of a sudden going bonkers? I'm running Windows Vista and I have the Vista Patch and the LegionArenaPatchV1.0101b patch. I'm running game version V1.0101 : 1249. Thanks.

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:12 pm

This is an issue that seems to have come about through some recent nVidia drivers. If you roll back to earlier drivers it should make the game playable again.

Cheers

Pip

BAKnight · Post by **BAKnight** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:46 am

That worked..... Thanks. It's funny, everything I kept reading within the game said "update, update, update" and in my case, I had to go backwards..... Gotta love computers....

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:19 pm

Glad that worked out for you!

As much as I love NVidia and their products, this isn't the first time they've done something like this. They broke the Lithtech engine with a driver upgrade some years back; the game No One Lives Forever just became unplayable.

BAKnight · Post by **BAKnight** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:18 pm

Well,

Now how do I stop my system from resetting this driver? I rolled it back, but every morning at 3am, the computer puts it back and everyday, I roll it back again..... Is it just a matter of turning off the automatic update option? Man I hate Windows Vista.

Thanks again.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:35 pm

Is it Vista doing the update or an Nvidia updater? If its Vista its a pain to turn off the updater...

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:38 pm

I have a vague recollection that you can open the windows update page, review your updates history, and flag specific ones as being ones you don't want to have.

Cheers

Pip

BAKnight · Post by **BAKnight** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:49 pm

I don't see the video driver in the list of recently updated stuff in the Vista Updater. I have an NVidia Control Panel option, but I can't find in there anywhere to mess with the actual driver. I have no problem rolling it back in the Vista Drivers section, but I can't find a button that says "Leave it Alone!" What a pain.........

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:32 am

I found these articles. It could prevent having to go through that process every time.

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-ti ... ows-vista/

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-ti ... ch-prompt/

I'll talk to Iain about letting nVidia know about the issue, but this might help in the interim.

Cheers

Pip

BAKnight · Post by **BAKnight** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:09 pm

Well,

What I ended up doing was going into the Automatic Update function and reset it to go ahead and search for updates, but to ask me before doing anything. So, now I have an Icon in my status bar that says updates are available, and yes, it's the nVidia one, but I just ignore it and everything is fine. I'll just have to remember to actually check that icon from time to time to see if there really is something I need to update, but for the time-being, that seems to have solved my problem.

Thanks again for all your help.

Joey-----