Soldato
Hi all
I love playing Dungeon Keeper 2. However, in the persuit of upgrading my hardware to also be able to play modern games at decent resolutions, I seem to completely lose the ability to play older games. It was a few months ago when I upgraded from an 8800GT to 5850 and in the process it has completely broken Dungeon Keeper 2 (it can't be played unless I switch to software rendering and even then it crashes very frequently). I rolled back to the earliest possible driver available for my 5850 but no luck.
My other half now has the 8800GT and with the latest nVidia drivers, the game won't work. However, roll back to the 197 driver and it's fine. So I've removed the 5850 from my PC and popped in an older 9400GT and installed the 197 driver, and lo and behold, DK2 now works fine.
I understand the need to add new features and functions, but what is it inherently about the process that even a simple driver update manages to completely break an older game? Why is it that I need to roll back to an older graphics card and an older driver to play an older game? Surely the newer graphics and newer drivers should just make everything better?
I'm now left with the rather irritating situation of physically having to change graphics cards depending on what game I want to play.
Surely there is a better way than this?
M.
I love playing Dungeon Keeper 2. However, in the persuit of upgrading my hardware to also be able to play modern games at decent resolutions, I seem to completely lose the ability to play older games. It was a few months ago when I upgraded from an 8800GT to 5850 and in the process it has completely broken Dungeon Keeper 2 (it can't be played unless I switch to software rendering and even then it crashes very frequently). I rolled back to the earliest possible driver available for my 5850 but no luck.
My other half now has the 8800GT and with the latest nVidia drivers, the game won't work. However, roll back to the 197 driver and it's fine. So I've removed the 5850 from my PC and popped in an older 9400GT and installed the 197 driver, and lo and behold, DK2 now works fine.
I understand the need to add new features and functions, but what is it inherently about the process that even a simple driver update manages to completely break an older game? Why is it that I need to roll back to an older graphics card and an older driver to play an older game? Surely the newer graphics and newer drivers should just make everything better?
I'm now left with the rather irritating situation of physically having to change graphics cards depending on what game I want to play.
Surely there is a better way than this?
M.