Spacecraft Models Washed out

[Gatormac]

Is it normal for the model to get really white/washed out...regardless of whether you are on the bright or dark side of the globe? This happens for the ISS and hubble that came with v1.3.2 and one of the 2001 Space station V add-ons, I don't remember which. It really takes away from the viewing experience....hubble in particular looks like a white trash can with wings.

Athlon XP 1800
512MB DDR Ram
Nvidia Geforce2 MX/MX 400 64MB latest Forceware driver

The first image is of the more pleasing, true color model. The second is of the washed out variety that unfortunately is more persistent.
What if anything can be done about this?

[selden]

Exactly which version of ForceWare are you running? "Latest" doesn't tell us anything. Too often people say that but turn out to be running older versions.

Unfortunately, you are seeing a defect that seems to be associated only with MX cards. It's probably a bug in the drivers. I think it was first reported when the v60 drivers were released. It may or may not be fixed with the current version, v66.93, which was made available on November 9th.

[Gatormac]

I put latest because I couldn't figure out where it said the version number. I downloaded it only 2 days ago from the nvidia site and know that it was 66.something so I figure it has to be the latest. I suppose since it is an MX bug I will just have to deal with it until I upgrade. Should I have any problems with the Geforce 6800?

Thanks again for the help Selden....if it weren't for you I feel alot of us would be left in the dark.

[maxim]

Should I have any problems with the Geforce 6800?

Not for this case. This is definitely a MX-only problem.

maxim

[selden]

Gatormac,

You can find out the version of the drivers by looking in the Display Properties menu.

Specifically:
If you right-click on the screen backdrop, you should get a display popup menu which includes the item "NVIDIA Display..." It has a submenu which contains the name of your display device(s). (It says "Samsung 210T Digital" on my system at work; at home it just says "Analog display".)

When you select the device, it opens the associated Nvidia information window. Select the very top line of Nvidia's "slide out" menu. (That top line contains the name of your graphics hardware; on my system at work it says "GeForce FX 5200".) The driver version will appear eventually in the bottom half of the main window, titled "driver version information". The last 4 digits of the driver version numbers are the relevant ones.

[Guest]

Ah, yes. Then I am 6693, or 66.93. Thanks again.