Googlesta Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Not everyone uses NvidiaWhat about the ATI guys? Aeutius: I'm going to link this solution in my FAQ. If thats a problem msg me http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=195505 There's links for ati and nvidia using another program on the 1st page of the thread, someone linked some other programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GomerThePyle Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Any kind of special driver for people with ATI cards? Turning off mipmaping thingy doesn't do it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricT Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Now I have a 128MB Geforce FX5200 card and that damn glitch. So I tried turning off User MipMaps and it didn't worked. Maybe because I have 71.84 drivers. Anyways I found another solution - not that great but it works. In same utility (nVHardPage) under Direct3D find aniostrophy level and select advance and turn on everything there to max (except don't turn on "Force textures to low MIP level" that makes game act weird). Glitch isn't gone but the blck roads are much further and the higher resolution the further it is (almost gone if you use 1280*1024). Sice that was the only glitch in my game I can say rocks cuz now the game is perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fro Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Doesnt work for me, and I've got an Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 Ultra 128mb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonS Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Being linked to lots of 'tweaking' programs i've never heard of doesn't really help much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeutius Posted June 16, 2005 Author Share Posted June 16, 2005 @Eric & Frto Try downgrading drivers to version 56.72. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron_130 Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 after fiddling around with the settings i finally defeated this problem, i used the NVHardPage program that the dude who made the thread linked to, but doing what he said didnt work for me (for some reason) ... anyhoo, after some fiddling around with the program i finally got it sorted My Gfx Card is a NVidia GeForceFX 5500 256MB ... this is what i did: as soon as it loads up i click the 'performance wizard' tab ... choose to 'increase quality' ... choose 'yes' to high resolution ... choose 'no' for antialiasing ... choose 'i dont know / both' for what API u want to use ... choose 'gaming; for what u want to use ur PC for ... then select finish ... then, i clicked the Direct3D tab again to see what had been changed, i saw User Mipmaps were enabled, so i disabled them ... booted the game up, then voila ... sorted ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the black roads are a tiny-bit visible, but far away enough so that you wouldnt notice it as much ... hope this helps some ppl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattstone_2000 Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Just to let you guys know, I had the same problem as others with NVHardpage not saving settings. I tried the same fix (disabling 'user mipmaps') with Rivatuner, and it works fine. Also the performance is a lot better for me than the fix that involves installing the older Nvidia drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oboema Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Just to let you guys know, I had the same problem as others with NVHardpage not saving settings. I tried the same fix (disabling 'user mipmaps') with Rivatuner, and it works fine. Also the performance is a lot better for me than the fix that involves installing the older Nvidia drivers. could you tell me how you changed it,i tried rivatuner but i can't find those settings anywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny8303 Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 (edited) could you tell me how you changed it,i tried rivatuner but i can't find those settings anywhere Same here, because i tried Rivatuner with the newer Nvidia drivers and it didn't work either. On a side note, if it's possible you should change the topic title to indicate this is a Nvidia fix, i mean obviously this topic deals with Forceware drivers, i'm not sure if disabling user mipmaps is even possible with ATI Catalyst drivers. I'm just throwing that out there because i'm sure the ATI folks are probably getting kind of frustrated looking in this topic and not seeing a workaround for them (believe me if i had an ATI card, even a spare i'd look into this for you folks). On yet another note, for the ATI folks, i believe Rivatuner supports Catalyst drivers as well (or there is an ATI version), it's a pretty good tweaking utility you can give a whirl. Edited June 16, 2005 by Denny8303 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oboema Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 could you tell me how you changed it,i tried rivatuner but i can't find those settings anywhere Same here, because i tried Rivatuner with the newer Nvidia drivers and it didn't work either. On a side note, if it's possible you should change the topic title to indicate this is a Nvidia fix, i mean obviously this topic deals with Forceware drivers, i'm not sure if disabling user mipmaps is even possible with ATI Catalyst drivers. I'm just throwing that out there because i'm sure the ATI folks are probably getting kind of frustrated looking in this topic and not seeing a workaround for them (believe me if i had an ATI card, even a spare i'd look into this for you folks). On yet another note, for the ATI folks, i believe Rivatuner supports Catalyst drivers as well (or there is an ATI version), it's a pretty good tweaking utility you can give a whirl. well owning an ati 9250 myselfe,i can say you're prolly right,i haven't found a way to really disable mip mapping or use a different workaround,and it's really starting to frustrate me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJkWhoSaysNi Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 I fixed this problem by altering the LOD Bias in a program called ATI Tray Tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonS Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Nice find, I changed the LOD settings too....Works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oboema Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 good 1 guys,haven't tried that one but forcing mip map filter in ati tray tools does it for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GomerThePyle Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Thanks alot. That tray tool thing worked like a charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienLX Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Enabling "Force Mip-Map Filter" seems to be the solution here too. Thanks for the fix, that was getting seriously annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattstone_2000 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Just to let you guys know, I had the same problem as others with NVHardpage not saving settings. I tried the same fix (disabling 'user mipmaps') with Rivatuner, and it works fine. Also the performance is a lot better for me than the fix that involves installing the older Nvidia drivers. could you tell me how you changed it,i tried rivatuner but i can't find those settings anywhere Load Rivatuner Select the 'Main' tab Click on 'Customize' in the Driver Settings panel A little box should pop up - click on 'DirectDraw and Direct3D settings' On the next screen should be a checkbox called 'Enable User Mipmaps': un-tick it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteX Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 I got a GeF FX 5200 256 meg, putting a -3.0 LOD bias on rivatuner did the trick for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToTO Le heRo Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 P4 2Ghz-1024 ram My video card is a RADEON 9600 I used to have this problem with black road. After 3 days of search , i finally found a solution. Go in your Video card configuration window. Advanced , 3d , then find "anisotropic filter" -must be on ,then choose a speed (personnaly it works good at 8X). Valid then play your game.You will see it's better. At 16X it totally disappear). It's not perfect but it seams to work for ATI VC I tried everything to resolve this problem , I' m not sleeping since 3 days I hope that will work for you!!! PS: Sorry for my bad english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyDienhoff Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 I have a Radeon 9600XT 256MB and I also had the black roads problem, i'm in San Fierro now but it was also apparent in Los Santos, I used ATI Tray Tools (which, conviently, I already had installed) and ticked 'Force Mip-Map Filter' and it fixed it, you can find this setting in 'Tweaks\Standard Tweaks\Other' Good luck y'all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shr00ms Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Just to let you guys know, I had the same problem as others with NVHardpage not saving settings. I tried the same fix (disabling 'user mipmaps') with Rivatuner, and it works fine. Also the performance is a lot better for me than the fix that involves installing the older Nvidia drivers. could you tell me how you changed it,i tried rivatuner but i can't find those settings anywhere Load Rivatuner Select the 'Main' tab Click on 'Customize' in the Driver Settings panel A little box should pop up - click on 'DirectDraw and Direct3D settings' On the next screen should be a checkbox called 'Enable User Mipmaps': un-tick it thanks man i appreciate it. It worked perfect with my geforce4 ti4200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigsaw Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 I fixed this problem by altering the LOD Bias in a program called ATI Tray Tools. Great! This fixed the problem for me! Damn, those ugly black roads were annoying! At least that should do the trick until Rockstar finishes the "How to do Mip Mapping, for Dummies"-workshop and provides a real fix for a problem that is so obvious, it shouldn't be there in the first place. Guess they simply fired their QA department after releasing the Playstation version. I really hate seeing a great game like this being sort of ruined by incompetence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fido_SanAndreas Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 When I download it, it keeps asking me to extract. Once I do the .exe keeps running to the extract part, any solution to getting this program to run? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fica10 Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 I have nVidia driver 71.89 i downloaded nVidiaHardPage i disbale UsersMipmap and black roads still here I download nVidia driver 56.72 i disable UsersMipmaping and black roads gone but people is invisible what to do please help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pureshadow Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 I have nVidia driver 71.89 i downloaded nVidiaHardPage i disbale UsersMipmap and black roads still hereI download nVidia driver 56.72 i disable UsersMipmaping and black roads gone but people is invisible what to do please help i have geforce2 mx400 and i had problems with black roads too. solution to my problem was downloading Nvidia Omega Drivers v1.6693 and then disabeling (maybe incorrect spelling ) User MipMaps. it looks that with the latest nVidia drivers and some graphics cards it doesnt disable it hope this helps for you. nVidia Omega Drivers v1.6693 here ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fica10 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Thanks man you ar the best i downloaded omega driver and nVidiaHardPage and i disable Usersmipmaping and it works no black roads no invisible peds thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kakashi Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 How does nvhp22-[Guru3D-1.com] works ? It keeps asking to extract. I have the same darned problem, using a GeforceFX5200. What do I have to do ? ( I don't like reading 3 pages, sorry ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fica10 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 (edited) Just download program form guru3D.com extract you will se a folder says guru3D.com enter this folder then enter in folder setup then duble click on the icon nVidiaHardPage wen you run the program find Dirtect3D option then find User MipMaps and disable Edited June 24, 2005 by fica10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricT Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Does the new 77.72 driver from www.nvidia.com help with black roads? Tried to install it and it said file was corrupt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEEJAY123 Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Anyone found a way to fix this on integrated graphics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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