BIOSHOCK - New driver causing freezes and instability?!

[alexjholland]

I got bioshock last week, upgraded to the new BETA drivers, sessioned it for one night (HOT game) and loaded my pc into the car for a 5 hour journey to Uni.

Now it's here, and it is very unstable, if i watch a video on media player it does NOT like me touching anything else, if I open any settings or anything it freezes BAD and needs restarting.

Also, more often than not when I boot, there is no picture sent to the monitor and I have to restart a few times for success..

- Anyone else have any problems with this driver?
- Can I revert to 162.18 released July 5th 2007, or will bioshock be unhappy?
- It is unlikely, but something could have been made unhappy in car journey?
Checked and all seems in order..

Thanks guys, appreciate any help..

Alex

 

[Teaf]

Something might have came loose when you shifted the PC around that much, in/out of the car etc. If you haven't already I would open the side case and make sure everything is seated properly, most importantly the graphics card. If you don't use the PCI-E / AGP slot clip it can come loose when plugging the video cable in or moving the computer around.

 

[Mindriot]

I have no problems with the beta driver (163.44 methinks), been reasonably stable actually. I'm wondering what it is they have done when they say a feature of the new beta driver is "improved bioshock compatibility"...

 

[masterk]

I have no problems with the beta driver (163.44 methinks), been reasonably stable actually. I'm wondering what it is they have done when they say a feature of the new beta driver is "improved bioshock compatibility"...

Perhaps the same thing they did when ATI released the "Special Doom 3 Driver". I.E removing some IQ!

 

[alexjholland]

I have a PCI-Express card, so it's pretty stable, nothing seems to be out of place either.. I checked RAM and GFX, anything like processor is a little beyond me..

Reckon any updates or rollbacks on my drivers would be sensible?